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.

1. The One from the Other – Phillip Kerr
2. Fallen – Lauren Kate
3. The Outcast – Sadie Jones
4. Us – David Nicholls
5. A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar
6. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
7. Rendezvous and other stories – Daphne Du Mauirier
8. Castle Dor – Daphne Du Mauirier
9. The Flight of the Falcon – Daphne Du Mauirier
10. Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Mauirier
11. Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Mauirier
12. Julius – Daphne Du Mauirier
13. I’ll Never Be Young Again – Daphne Du Mauirier
14. The Parasites – Daphne Du Mauirier
15. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Cohelo
16. Eleven Minutes – Paulo Cohelo
17. The Pilgrimage – Paulo Cohelo
18. The Valkaries – Paulo Cohelo
19. The Alchemist – Paulo Cohelo
20. The Dolls House – M J Arlidge
21. The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards
22. The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes – Anna McPartlin
23. One Plus One – Jo Jo Moyes
24. The Ship of Brides – Jo Jo Moyes
25. The Goldfinch – Donna Tarrt
26. Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
27. The Island – Victoria Hislop
28. The Woman Who Stole My Life – Marian Keyes
29. The Visible World – Mark Slouka
30. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
31. Yes Man – Danny Wallace
32. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
33. #GirlBoss – Sophia Amoruso
34. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
35. Pursuit of Happiness – Douglas Kennedy
36. How to Be a Woman – Caitlin Moran
37. How to be a Girl – Caitlin Moran
38. Not That Kind Of Girl – Lena Dunham
39. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
40. Second Chance – Jodie Picoult
41. The Wives of Henry O – Johana Moran
42. French Luietenants Woman – John Fowles
43. Nanny Returns – Nicola Klaus & Emma McLaughlin
44. Pay it Forwards – Catherine Ryan Hyde
45. 127 Hours – Aron Ralston
46. Revenge Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
47. I Heart Paris – Lindsey Kelk
48. When God Was A Rabbit – Sarah Winman
49. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
50. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
51. The Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
52. Mrs Winter – Susan Black
53. Paper Towns – John Green
54. It – Alexa Chung
55. Bridget Jones Baby – Helen Fielding
56. The Muse – Jessie Burton
57. Living Dolls – Natasha Walt
58. Knife Edge – Mallori Balckman
59. The book of Lost Things – John Connolly
60. The Bridge of Spies – Giles Whittell
61. Wolf of Wall Street – Jordan Belfort
62. Wild – Cheryl Strayed
63. We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
64. The Pianist – Władysław Szpilman
65. We Bought A Zoo – Benjamin Mee
66. A Brothers Blood – Michael C. White
67. Dark Half – Stephen King
68. Rose Madder – Stephen King
69. Desperation – Stephen King
70. Revival – Stephen King
71. Dream Catcher – Stephen King
72. Insomnia – Stephen King
73. The Stand- Stephen King
74. Doctor Sleep – Stephen King
75. Before I Go To Sleep – S J Watson
76. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
77. The Girls – Lori Lousens
78. Bill Bryson at Home – Bill Bryson
79. Salmon Fishing in the Yeomen – Paul Torday
80. Yes Please – Amy Poeler
81. The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
82. Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee
83. The Marble Collector – Ceceila Ahern
84. Book of Tomorrow – Ceceila Ahern
85. Strong Woman – Karen Brady
86. The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
87. Lord of The Ring; The Illustrated Edition – J R R Tolkien
88. The Mystery of Mercy Close – Marian Keyes
89. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
90. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
91. The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold
92. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany
93. The Dry – Jane Harper
94. The Girlfriend – Michelle Frances
95. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
96. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
97. The Savage Altar – Asa Larsson
98. Zodiac – Robert Graysmit h
99. The Girl of Ink & Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
100. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
101. Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism – Natasha Walter
102. His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet
103. The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge
104. Scrappy Little Nobody – Anna Kendrick
105. My little book of Lykke – Meik Wiking
106. My little book of Hygge – Meik Wiking
107. If I Stay – Gayle Forman
108. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
109. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
110. Ariel – Sylvia Plath
111. The Shadows In The Street – Susan Hill
112. Mrs De Winter – Susan Hill
113. 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.