So, I have an addiction. A problem, if you like. It grows exponentially, it consumes me like nothing ever has, and I don’t want to make it stop. It’s one of the greatest loves of my life, and, I honestly believe this unconditional love of mine will stand the test of time. If you haven’t guessed already – it’s reading. Reading. Books. Literature. And, here’s my never-ending TBR list…

Date of last update : 31st May 2010

* denotes books already acquired

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2666 – Roberto Bolano*

A

All The Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy*
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The – Michael Chabon
Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Ask And The Answer, The – Patrick Ness
Associate, The – John Grisham

B

Beautiful Children – Charles Bock
Between Now And April – Deborah Copaken Kogan
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Blind Assassin, The – Margaret Atwood

C

Carrie – Stephen King
Civil Action, A – Jonathan Harr
Cellist of Sarajevo, The – Steven Galloway*
Clockwork – Philip Pullman
Confederacy of Dunces, A – John Kennedy Toole
Crucible, The – Arthur Miller

D

Dangerous Laughter – Steven Millhauser
Darkmans – Nicola Barker
Driver’s Seat, The – Muriel Spark

E

Emma – Jane Austen
Empire Of The Sun – JG Ballard*
English Patient, The – Michael Ondaatje

F

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Key
For Whom The Bells Toll – Ernest Hemingway*
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

G

G – John Berger
Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
Grapes Of Wrath, The – John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon*
Group, The – Mary McCarthy

H

Haunting Of Hill House, The – Shirley Jackson
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

I

I Married A Communist – Philip Roth
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler – Italo Calvino
In True Blood – Truman Capote

J

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

K

Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami*
Knife Of Never Letting Go, The – Patrick Ness

L

L.A. Confidential – James Ellroy*
Life and Times of Michael K, The – J.M. Coetzee
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
Loitering With Intent – Muriel Spark*

M

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Man In The High Castle – Philip K. Dick*
Marathon Man – William Goldman
Maus I & II – Art Spiegelman
Merry-Go-Round In The Sea, The – Randolph Stow
Metamorphosis, The – Franz Kafka
Miracle Worker, The – William Gibson
My Name Is Red – Orhan Pamuk*

N

Namesake, The – Jhumpa Lahiri*
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Notes Of A Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski

O

Of A Boy – Sonya Hartnett
Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
On The Road – Jack Kerouac*
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Out Of Africa – Isac Denison
Outsiders, The – S.E. Hinton

P

Poisonwood Bible, The – Barbara Kingsolver
Post Office Girl, The – Stefan Zweig
Pretty Monsters – Kelly Link
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*

R

Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day, The – Kazuo Ishiguro
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates*
Road Home, The – Rose Tremain
Room Of One’s Own, A – Virginia Woolf
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
Ruby’s Spoon – Anna Lawrence Pietroni

S

Secret Life Of Bees, The – Sue Monk Kidd
Sea, The – John Banville
Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
Shades of Gray – Jasper Fforde*
Something To Answer For – PH Newby
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Sound And The Fury, The – William Faulkner
Strangers – Anita Brookner
Street Car Named Desire, A – Tennessee Williams
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust

T

Tears Of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey*

U

Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri

V

Valley Of The Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Vanessa & Virginia – Susan Sellers
Very Persistent Illusion, A – L.C. Tyler

W

Watership Down – Richard Atwood
We Have Always Lived In The Castle – Shirley Jackson
Wee Free Men, The – Terry Pratchett*
When I Was Five, I Killed Myself – Howard Buten
Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett*
When I Forgot – Elina Hirvonen
When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson
Woman Of My Age, A – Nina Bawden
Woman In White, The – Wilkie Collins