I have a pretty sizable To Be Read List that consists primarily of books I’ve picked up over the years, and put to the side for later. Some I have read a couple chapters of, others I have picked up on impulse. My colleague Dee will abandon me in charity shops on our lunch break because I get too distracted by the book shelves.
One thing I want to do this year, is to read fifty two of the books from the list below . Firstly; I could do with the space, secondly; I can’t in good conscience buy another book, when I have twenty half read books waiting to be finished or collecting dust.
- The One from the Other – Phillip Kerr
- Fallen – Lauren Kate
- The Outcast – Sadie Jones
- Us – David Nicholls
- A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Rendezvous and other stories –Daphne Du Mauirier- Castle Dor – Daphne Du Mauirier
- The Flight of the Falcon – Daphne Du Mauirier
- Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Mauirier
- Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Mauirier
- Julius – Daphne Du Mauirier
- I’ll Never Be Young Again – Daphne Du Mauirier
- The Parasites – Daphne Du Mauirier
- The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Cohelo
- Eleven Minutes – Paulo Cohelo
- The Pilgrimage – Paulo Cohelo
- The Valkaries – Paulo Cohelo
- The Alchemist – Paulo Cohelo
The Dolls House –M J Arlidge- The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards
- The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes – Anna McPartlin
- One Plus One – Jo Jo Moyes
- The Ship of Brides – Jo Jo Moyes
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tarrt
- Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
- The Island – Victoria Hislop
- The Woman Who Stole My Life – Marian Keyes
- The Visible World – Mark Slouka
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- Yes Man – Danny Wallace
All the Light We Cannot See –Anthony Doerr- #GirlBoss – Sophia Amoruso
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Pursuit of Happiness – Douglas Kennedy
- How to Be a Woman – Caitlin Moran
- How to be a Girl – Caitlin Moran
Not That Kind Of Girl –Lena Dunham- Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
- Second Chance – Jodie Picoult
- The Wives of Henry O – Johana Moran
- French Luietenants Woman – John Fowles
- Nanny Returns – Nicola Klaus & Emma McLaughlin
- Pay it Forwards – Catherine Ryan Hyde
- 127 Hours – Aron Ralston
- Revenge Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
- I Heart Paris – Lindsey Kelk
- When God Was A Rabbit – Sarah Winman
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
- The Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
- Mrs Winter – Susan Black
- Paper Towns – John Green
- It – Alexa Chung
- Bridget Jones Baby – Helen Fielding
The Muse –Jessie BurtonLiving Dolls –Natasha Walt- Knife Edge – Mallori Balckman
- The book of Lost Things – John Connolly
- The Bridge of Spies – Giles Whittell
- Wolf of Wall Street – Jordan Belfort
- Wild – Cheryl Strayed
- We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
- The Pianist – Władysław Szpilman
- We Bought A Zoo – Benjamin Mee
- A Brothers Blood – Michael C. White
Dark Half –Stephen King- Rose Madder – Stephen King
- Desperation – Stephen King
Revival –Stephen King- Dream Catcher – Stephen King
- Insomnia – Stephen King
- The Stand- Stephen King
Doctor Sleep – Stephen King- Before I Go To Sleep – S J Watson
- The Boy In The Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
- The Girls – Lori Lousens
- Bill Bryson at Home – Bill Bryson
- Salmon Fishing in the Yeomen – Paul Torday
- Yes Please – Amy Poeler
- The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Go Set A Watchman –Harper Lee- The Marble Collector – Ceceila Ahern
- Book of Tomorrow – Ceceila Ahern
- Strong Woman – Karen Brady
- The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
- Lord of The Ring; The Illustrated Edition – J R R Tolkien
- The Mystery of Mercy Close – Marian Keyes
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
- The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany
The Dry –Jane HarperThe Girlfriend –Michelle Frances- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
The Five People You Meet in Heaven –Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom- The Savage Altar – Asa Larsson
Zodiac –Robert GraysmithThe Girl of Ink & Stars –Kiran Millwood Hargrave- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism –Natasha WalterHis Bloody Project –Graeme Macrae Burnet- The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge
- Scrappy Little Nobody – Anna Kendrick
- My little book of Lykke – Meik Wiking
My little book of Hygge –Meik WikingIf I Stay –Gayle Forman- On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
- Ariel – Sylvia Plath
- The Shadows In The Street – Susan Hill
- Mrs De Winter – Susan Hill
- Heartless – Marissa Meyer
I would like to flag that this does not include my regular book collection, any Kindle books (read or unread) or the books i want to read one day.
Some of these books I have had for over a decade (I tried, and struggled to read A Clockwork Orange when I was 18. It’s partly in Russian… Lolita was returned to me after a break up)
So many I’ve picked up and put down again because it’s been slow, or other exciting books came around (The Stand, The Almost Moon, Go Set A Watchman)
I’ve impulse bought so many authors. Rebecca, is one of my all time favourite novels so when I spotted a collection of Daphne Du Mauirier’s stories I snapped them up. I will always pick up by Cecila Ahern, Jodie Picolt and Stephen King novels I haven’t read when I spot them in a charity shop. And at one point, I decided I needed to expand my reading and picked up a load of Paulo Cohelo novels.
I need to stop buying books…
Thank you Matt for taking another blog photo. I would also like to point out, the blurriness is my inability to stand still during a long exposure.