Books on My Wish List

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

Books Bought in 2007-2008

Below is a list of the books I have bought since the post-Christmas book sales in December 2007. After buying close to 200 books last year, I've pledged to restrict myself to buying less than 100 books this year.

December 2007:
Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree
Bill Bryson: Neither Here Nor There
Simon Callow: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography Volume 1)
Simon Callow: Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography Volume 2)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep and Other Stories
Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop
Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
Stephen King: IT
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Sue Townsend: The Secret Diaroy of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

January 2008:
ER Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Anthony Burgess: 1985
Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Dozen
Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

February 2008:
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Frank Beddor: The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor: Seeing Redd
Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent
Albert Camus: The Outsider
Albert Camus: The Plague
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Antique Doll (#36)
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Pet Show Mystery (#37)
Matthew Pearl: The Poe Shadow
Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
John Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Alexander McCall Smith: The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom
Patrick Suskind: Perfume
Peter Temple: The Broken Shore
Hunter S Thompson: Hell's Angels
Lynne Truss: The Lynne Truss Treasury (With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, Tennyson's Gift, Going Loco, Making the Cat Laugh)

March 2008:
John Banville: The Sea
Clive Barker: Weaveworld
Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Others
HV Evatt: Rum Rebellion
Alex Garland: The Beach
Graham Greene: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol
George Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody
Henry James: What Maisie Knew
Banjo Paterson: The Man from Snowy River
John Steinbeck: The Red Pony
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

April 2008:
Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye
John Banville: Athena
John Banville: Doctor Copernicus
John Banville: Kepler
John Banville: Mephisto
Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

May 2008:
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited
Gregory Maguire: Wicked

June 2008:
Raven Hart: The Vampire's Kiss
Raven Hart: The Vampire's Secret

July 2008:
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #19

Priority Reading for 2008

The following books are a small selection of the total number of books on my TBR pile. These are my 'top priority' books: the books that I would most like to read this year. I won't get through them all (I expect I'll be buying others and reading them, or jumping to others on my TBR pile if they come up for reading circles), but I certainly hope to put a big dent in this lot by the end of the year!

I've listed which challenges each book is eligible for in brackets, except for the RD challenge, because they're all eligible for that one! Books that have been read have a rating out of 10 next to them. Then there are the books that I'm currently reading, books that have been borrowed and, unless otherwise stated, I'll be reading hard copies of all books.

Richard Adams: Watership Down (CL, YA)
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot (1K, CL, SF)
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake (DY, SF) 9/10
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (1K, BF, CL) 8/10
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (1K, BF, CL)
Jane Austen: Persuasion (1K, BF, CL)
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1K, BF, CL) 9/10
Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar (AU, YA)
Graeme Blundell: King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy (AU)
Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes (CL?, SF)
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1K, CL) 10/10
Bill Bryson: Neither Here Nor There
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (CL, YA) 9/10
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1K, CL, RD) 10/10
Arthur C Clarke & Gentry Lee: The Garden of Rama (SF) 8/10
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1K, CL)
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (YA) 7/10
Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox (YA)
Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop (CL)
Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca (1K, CL)
Kim Edwards: Memory Keeper's Daughter
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1K, CL)
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life (AU) 9/10
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair (SF) 8/10
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones' Diary
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (1K, CL)
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (AU, CL, RD, YA) 7/10
Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #1: The Dark Moon (SF)
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (1K, CL)
Frank Herbert: Dune (CL, SF)
Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1K, CL)
Anne Holm: I Am David (YA)
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1K, CL)
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden (various) (YA)
Stephen King: The Stand (BF, SF)
Tim LaHaye: Left Behind #7 (SF)
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time (BB, CL, DY, SF, YA) 8/10
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (BB, CL, SF, YA) 8/10
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (1K, BF) 7/10
Richard Matheson: I am Legend (CL, DY, RD, SF) 9/10
Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (1K)
Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin (1K, CL)
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife (BF)
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah (DY, RD, SF, YA) 7/10
Maggie O'Farrell: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (BF)
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow (AU, YA) 8/10
Jodi Piccoult: Vanishing Acts
Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (RD, SF) 7/10
Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale 9/10
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1K, BB, BF, CL, SF) 10/10
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1K, CL)
Donna Tartt: The Secret History (1K)
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1K, CL)
Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (1K, CL)
Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake (SF)
Charles Webb: The Graduate (1K, CL) 7/10
Nathaniel West: The Day of the Locust (CL, RD) 7/10
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1K, CL)
Tim Winton: Cloudstreet (AU)
Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #1: The Last Augury (SF)
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids (CL, SF)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind

TBR Pile N-Z

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold. In the interests of keeping this post relatively short, I've decided not to add the books that I buy during the course of 2008, unless I also read them this year, in which case the book has been marked with an *.

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
#Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
#Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
Robert O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (re-read)
#Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah 7/10
Maggie O'Farrell: After You'd Gone
#Maggie O'Farrell: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
George Orwell: Animal Farm 10/10
#Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow (re-read) 8/10
Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
Gilbert Pearlman: Young Frankenstein
*Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost
#Jodi Piccoult: Vanishing Acts
Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems
Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (Discworld #1) 7/10
Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites (Discworld #2)
Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic (Discworld #3)
Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent (Discworld #22)
Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time (Discworld #26)
Terry Pratchett: Going Postal (Discworld #33)
Terry Pratchett: Thud! (Discworld #34)
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
Mario Puzo: The Godfather
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
*Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea 6/10
WC Sellar: 1066 and All That
Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale 9/10
#Mary Shelley: Frankenstein 10/10
Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Nicholas Sparks: A Walk to Remember
Steven Spielberg: Clouse Encounters of the Third Kind
John Steinbeck: East of Eden
#John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Michael Swift: Mapping the World
Donna Tartt: The Little Friend
#Donna Tartt: The Secret History
William Makepeace Thackeray: Barry Lyndon
#William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
#Hunter S Thompson: The Rum Diary
Geoff Tibballs: No-Balls and Googlies: A Cricket Companion 8/10
JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit (re-read)
JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion
#John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Nancy Turner: These is My Words (re-read)
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
#Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake
Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur
#Charles Webb: The Graduate 7/10
HG Wells: The Cone
#Nathaniel West: The Day of the Locust 6/10
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
*Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray 9/10
*Thornton Wilder: The Bridge on San Luis Rey 7/10
Michael Wilding and David Myers: Best Stories Under the Sun
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
*Tim Winton: Breath 8/10
#Tim Winton: Cloudstreet
Working Dog: Phaic Tan
Working Dog: San Sombrero
Jonathan Wylie: Across the Flame
#Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #1: The Last Augury
Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #2: Dark Fire
Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empires #3: Echoes of Flame
Jonathan Wylie: Other Lands
Jonathan Wylie: Shadow Maze
#John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
John Wyndham: The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham: Stowaway to Mars
#Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind
Emile Zola: Nana
*Markus Zusak: The Book Thief 10/10

TBR Pile F-M

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold. In the interests of keeping this post relatively short, I've decided not to add the books that I buy during the course of 2008, unless I also read them this year, in which case the book has been marked with an *.

Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
#AB Facey: A Fortunate Life 9/10
Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy
#Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair 8/10
Jasper Fforde: The Fourth Bear
Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde: Something Rotten
Jasper Fforde: The Well of Lost Plots
#Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned
#Ian Fleming: Casino Royale
Ian Fleming: Diamonds are Forever
Ian Fleming: Goldfinger
Ian Fleming: Moonraker
Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice
Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank
Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career
*Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere 8/10
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
#May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie 7/10
Nikolai Gogal: Dead Souls
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
Julia Gray: Fire Music
Julia Gray: Ice Mage
Julia Gray: Isle of the Dead
#Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #1: The Dark Moon
Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #2: The Jasper Forest
Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #3: The Crystal Desert
Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #4: The Red Glacier
Julia Gray: The Guardian Cycle #5: Alyssa's Ring
*Graham Greene: The Third Man & The Fallen Idol 9/10
Alice M Hadfield: King Arthur and the Round Table
Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road
#Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Brian Herbert: The Butlerian Jihad
#Frank Herbert: Dune
Frank Herbert: Messiah
Frank Herbert: Children of Dune
Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf
#Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
#Anne Holm: I am David
Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore
Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley: The Grey Eminence
Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves
James Jones: From Here to Eternity
#James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Carolyn Keene: Nancy Drew and the Clue of the Dancing Puppet
#Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden (various)
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
#Stephen King: The Stand
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book 5/10
Robin Klein: Hating Alison Ashley (re-read)
#Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins: Left Behind Series #7-#11
DH Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Donovan Leitch: The Hurdy Gurdy Man
#Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time 8/10
#CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 8/10
CS Lewis: Prince Caspian 8/10
Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock
John Marsden: So Much to Tell You (re-read)
#Yann Martel: Life of Pi 7/10
Steve Martin: The Attorney
#Richard Matheson: I am Legend (ebook) 9/10
#Ian McEwan: Enduring Love
Henry Miller: The Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller: The Tropic of Capricorn
Elyne Mitchell: The Man from Snowy River
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Sally Morgan: My Place
Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

TBR Pile A-E

The following list, over 3 posts, represents the bulk of my TBR pile. I haven't included reference books or books on the supernatural and The Beatles, of which I have quite a few.

Books marked with an # indicate priority reading. Books that have been read are in bold. In the interests of keeping this post relatively short, I've decided not to add the books that I buy during the course of 2008, unless I also read them this year, in which case the book has been marked with an *.

Douglas Adams: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
#Richard Adams: Watership Down
#Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Isaac Asmiov: Pebble in the Sky
Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
#Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake 9/10
Jean M Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M Auel: The Mammoth Hunters
Jean M Auel: The Valley of Horses
#Jane Austen: Mansfield Park 8/10
#Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
#Jane Austen: Persuasion
#Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility 9/10
*John Banville: The Book of Evidence 10/10
#Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar
Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the 20th Century
#Graeme Blundell: King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy
Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes
Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury: The Golden Apples of the Sun
Ray Bradbury: I Sing the Body Electric!
Ray Bradbury: Long After Midnight
Ray Bradbury: S is for Space
#Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
*ER Braithwaite: To Sir, With Love
Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
#Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre 10/10
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Dan Brown: Digital Fortress
Bill Bryson: Made in America
#Bill Bryson: Neither Here Nor There
*Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
#Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 9/10
Simon Callow: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography, Volume 1)
Simon Callow: Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, Volume 2)
* Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's 10/10
#Truman Capote: In Cold Blood 10/10
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon (ed): McSweeney's Echanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep and Other Stories
GK Chesterton: The Complete Father Brown Stories
Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary
Arthur C Clarke: Against the Fall of Night
Arthur C Clarke: The Deep Range
Arthur C Clarke: Expedition to Earth
#Arthur C Clarke & Gentry Lee: The Garden of Rama 8/10
Arthur C Clarke: Imperial Earth
Arthur C Clarke: Of Time and Stars
Arthur C Clarke: Rama Revealed
Colette: The Claudine Novels
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl 2: The Arctic Incident
Tom Collins: Such is Life
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
#Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
#Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 7/10
#Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox
Iris Rainer Dart: Beaches
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
#Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop
Jack Drake: The Cattle Dog's Revenge
Daphne du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
#Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
#Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
George Eliot: Middlemarch
#Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man