Mount To-Be-Read

As a rabid bibliophile, I have an ever-increasing pile of books waiting for me to pick them up and peruse their pages (no matter how fast I read them, I always seem to accumulate faster than I speculate!). This collection is currently housed on several shelves beneath my computer desk. They are double-shelved and spilling out, attacking my feet as if to shout, “Read me next!” I call it Mount To-Be-Read and I’m forever trying to scale its giddy heights…

OC = Olympic Challenge
1001 = from Peter Boxall’s 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
PC = Posh Club Reading Group Choice
RC = The Book Club Forum Main Reading Circle Choice
CRC = The Book Club Forum Classics Reading Circle Choice
Blue = Currently reading

Mount To-Be-Read:

1. Monica Ali – Brick Lane (OC – Bangladesh)
2. Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace (1001)
3. Jane Austen – Persuasion (1001)
4. Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility (1001)
5. Louis de Bernieres – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1001)
6. Peter Boxall – 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
   
7. Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey (1001)
8. Trudi Canavan – The Magician’s Guild (OC – Australia)
9. Elizabeth Chadwick – Shadows and Strongholds
10. Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (1001)
11. Joseph Conrad – Victory
12. Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities (1001)
13. Charles Dickens – Bleak House (1001)
14. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist (1001)
15. Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo (1001/OC – France)
16. Michel Faber – The Crimson Petal and the White (OC – Netherlands)
17. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night (1001)
18. Anne Frank – Anne Frank’s Diary (OC – Germany)
19. Romain Gary – The Roots of Heaven (1001 / OC – Lithuania)
    
20. Richard E Grant – By Design (OC – Swaziland)
21. Philippa Gregory – A Respectable Trade (OC – Kenya)
22. Philippa Gregory – The Other Queen
23. Philippa Gregory – The Favoured Child
24. Sharon Griffiths – The Accidental Time Traveller
    
25. Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure (1001)
26. Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge (1001)
27. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1001)
28. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter (1001)
29. Barry Hines – A Kestral for a Knave / Kes (1001)
30. Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1001)
    
31. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables: Vol. 1&2 (1001)
32. Christian Jacq – Beneath the Pyramid (OC – France)
33. Lloyd Jones – Mr Pip (RC)
34. Jeanne Kalagoris – The Borgia Bride
35. Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek (OC – Greece)
36. Raymond Khoury – The Last Templar (OC – Lebanon)
37. Barbara Kingslover – The Poisonwood Bible (1001)
38. Rudyard Kipling – Kim (1001)
39. Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    
40. D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love (1001)
41. Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (1001 / OC – Iran)
42. Jodi Lipper – How to Eat Like a Hot Chick: Lose the Guilt, Find the Fabulous
    
43. Valerio Massimo Manfredi – The Last Legion (OC – Italy)
44. Stephenie Meyer – Twilight
45. Stephenie Meyer – New Moon
46. Stephenie Meyer – Eclipse
    
47. Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer (1001)
48. V. S. Naipaul – The Mystic Masseur (OC – Trinidad & Tobago)
49. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient (OC – Sri Lanka)
50. Elizabeth Pantley – The No-Cry Sleep Solution
    
51. Jean Plaidy – The King’s Secret Matter
52. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson – The Folklore of the Discworld
53. Mario Puzo – The Sicilian
54. Tom Robbins – Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
    
55. Philip Roth – The Human Stain (1001)
56. James Runcie – The Discovery of Chocolate
    
57. Simon Scarrow – Youngbloods (Revolution # 1)
58. Simon Scarrow – The Generals (Revolution # 2)
59. Simon Scarrow – Fire and Sword (Revolution # 3)
60. Bernhard Schlink – The Reader
    
61. Ahdaf Soueif – The Map of Love (OC – Egypt)
62. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
63. Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – The Immortals (Edge Chronicles)
    
64. Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
65. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (1001)
66. Lew Wallace – Ben Hur
67. Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities (1001)

My Wish List (books I don’t yet have, but will get when I can):

• Kelley Armstrong – The Awakening
• Kelley Armstrong – Made to be Broken
• Kelley Armstrong – Frostbitten
• Christopher Brookmyre – Snowball in Hell
  
• Philippa Gregory – The White Queen
• Stuart Macbride – Blind Eye
  
• George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Terry Pratchett – Once More* With Footnotes