The below list consists of the books on my wish list (as at 25 December 2007). I'll no doubt be adding more as the year goes on and I get more recommendations from the BCF!
I don't intend buying all of these books this year, especially as some of them will be difficult to track down. Items will be moved to my 'Books Bought in 2007-2008' post as I track them down.
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Clive Barker: The Thief of Always
Graeme Base: Animalia
Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour
Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World
Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Kyril Bonfiglioli: The Mortdecai Trilogy
Pattie Boyd: Wonderful Tonight
Charlotte Bronte: Shirley
John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed
William S Burroughs: Junky
Patrick Califia: Doc and Fluff
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things
Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Alexandre Dumas: The Last Cavalier
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco: The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
Jasper Fforde: First Among Sequels
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Neil Gaiman: American Gods
Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!
Raven Hart: The Vampire's Seduction
Homer: The Iliad
Homer: The Odyssey
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception
Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time series
James Joyce: Ulysses
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #19, #35, #37, #38, #39
Andrew Keogh: Twentytwelve
Jack Kerouac: On the Road (The Original Scroll)
Timothy LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins: Glorious Appearing
Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City
Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress
Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Ira Levin: This Perfect Day
Lois Lowry: The Giver
Lois Lowry: Number the Stars
David Malouf: Remember Babylon
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister
Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory
Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Dorothy Parker: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Jodi Piccoult: My Sister's Keeper
Thomas Pynchon: Vineland
Christopher Reid (ed): Letters of Ted Hughes
Philip Roth: The Plot Against America
David Sedaris: Naked
Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are (maybe borrow this from a library)
Shel Silverstein: The Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Brian Southall: Northern Songs
Jacqueline Susann: The Valley of the Dolls
Adrian Tinniswood: By Permission of Heaven - The True Story of the Great Fire of London
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Nancy Turner: Sarah's Quilt
Nancy Turner: The Star Garden
Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House (short story)
Alan Weisman: The World Without Us
Gene Wilder: My French Whore
Tim Winton: Dirt Music
Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Jack Womack: Elvissey
John Wyndham: Chocky
Malcolm X: Autobiography of Malcolm X
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