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

Mini Challenges

This post is reserved for any other mini challenges I feel like undertaking throughout the year!

Dystopian Challenge

COMPLETE!

The eighth and final challenge I'm beginning this year is the Dystopian Challenge (DY). I find books about dystopian societies absolutely fascinating. The challenge is to read 5 dystopian books by the end of the year.

A little background on the subject (taken from wikipedia):
A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. It is usually characterised by an oppressive social control, such as an authoritarian or totalitarian government. In other words, a Dystopia has the exact opposite of what one would expect in a Utopian society.

An excellent list of dystopian literature can be found here.

DY reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Richard Matheson: I am Legend
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
George Orwell: Animal Farm

TBR books that qualify for the DY challenge:
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (re-read)
William S Burroughs: Naked Lunch (ebook)
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn
Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
Aldous Huxley: Ape and Essence (ebook)
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (ebook)
Stephen King: The Stand
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Cormac McCarthy: The Road (ebook)
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
George Orwell: Animal Farm (re-read)
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (ebook)

Other DY books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought/downloaded.
Richard Bachman: The Long Walk
Richard Bachman: The Running Man
Anthony Burgess: 1985
Anthony Burgess: The Wanting Seed
Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle
Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Ira Levin: This Perfect Day
Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister
Philip Roth: The Plot Against America
Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House
HG Wells: The Sleeper Awakes

Australian Challenge

The seventh challenge I'm going to undertake for 2008 is an Australian Challenge (AU). I've had a few of these books on my TBR pile for a while now and I think it's time to take the plunge! Considering Australian literature makes up a relatively small proportion of my total number of books, I've decided to set myself a target of 6 books for the year. About half of the books on the below list will also qualify for the Classics Challenge.

AU reading in 2008: (currently reading)
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
Tim Winton: Breath
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

TBR books that qualify for the AU challenge:
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Richard Butler: The Men that God Forgot (re-read)
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn
Marcus Clarke: For the Term of His Natural Life (re-read)
Tom Collins: Such is Life
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life
Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career
Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore
Robin Klein: Hating Alison Ashley (re-read)
Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock
John Marsden: So Much to Tell You (re-read)
Sally Morgan: My Place
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow (re-read)
Ruth Park: The Harp in the South (re-read)
Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice
Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar (re-read)
Tim Winton: Cloudstreet

Other AU books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Graeme Base: Animalia
Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour
Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World
David Malouf: Remember Babylon
Banjo Patterson: The Man from Snowy River
Tim Winton: Dirt Music
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge

COMPLETE!

The sixth challenge I'm beginning in 2008 is a Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge (SF). I've been sadly neglecting this genre in the last couple of years and I've left myself with a lot of catching up to do. I've decided to give myself a goal of 8 books to read during the year.

SF reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Arthur C Clarke & Gentry Lee: The Garden of Rama
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis: Prince Caspian
Richard Matheson: I am Legend
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (Discworld #1)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

TBR books that qualify for the SF challenge (max 15 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Douglas Adams: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Isaac Asimov: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Jean M Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn
Arthur C Clarke & Gentry Lee: The Garden of Rama
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
Julia Gray: Guardian Cycle #1: The Dark Moon
Frank Herbert: Dune
Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (Discworld #1)
Steven Spielberg: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit (re-read)
Jonathan Wylie: Island and Empire #1: The Last Augury
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids

Other SF books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
Jasper Fforde: First Among Sequels
Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress
John Wyndham: Chocky

Young Adults Challenge

COMPLETE!

The fifth challenge I'm starting in 2008 is a Young Adults Challenge (YA). I had great success last year reading books that are aimed at younger readers, and so I've decided to make it more formal and give myself a goal of 10 books to read during the year. Quite a few books on the below list will also qualify for the Classics Challenge (CL).

YA reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
CS Lewis: Prince Caspian
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

TBR books that qualify for the YA challenge (max 15 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy
Ann Holm: I Am David
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden (various)
Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies (re-read)
Robin Klein: Hating Alison Ashley (re-read)
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
John Marsden: So Much to Tell You (re-read)
LM Montgomery: Anne of Avonlea (ebook)
Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Judy Bernard-Waite: The Riddle of the Trumpalar

Other YA books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Graeme Base: Animalia (re-read)
Graeme Base: The Eleventh Hour (re-read)
Judy Blume: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

Book Club Forum Reading Circle Challenge

The fourth challenge I'm undertaking this year is the Book Club Forum Reading Circle Challenge (BF). The challenge is to participate in 10 reading circles, and if I read any books from past reading circles, I'll count those as well.

BF reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

TBR books that qualify for the BF challenge (will be added to during the year):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (May/June 2008)
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (November/December 2008)
Jane Austen: Persuasion (September/October 2008)
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (January/February 2008)
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere (February 2008)
Stephen King: The Stand (December 2007)
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books (June 2008)
Maggie O'Farrell: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (May 2007)
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (January 2008)
Kate Mosse: Labyrinth (February 2006)
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time-Traveller's Wife (November/December 2005)
Christopher Paolini: Eragon (August 2006)
Terry Pratchett: Hogfather (December 2006)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (October 2006)

Other BF books I'd like to own and read:
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Clive Barker: The Thief of Always
John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (July 2008)
Neil Gaiman: American Gods (January 2006)
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere (February 2008)
Jodi Piccoult: My Sister's Keeper (February 2006)
Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities (June 2008)

Reading through the Decades Challenge

Another challenge I've decided to take up is the Reading through the Decades Challenge (RD). The challenge is to read 1 book from every decade, beginning with the 1900s and ending with the 2000s. This is 11 books in total and if I have time I may start working backwards from the 1890s!

RD reading in 2008: (currently reading)
1890s Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
1910s May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
1920s Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1930s Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
1940s George Orwell: Animal Farm
1950s Richard Matheson: I am Legend
1960s Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
1970s Robert O'Brien: Z for Zachariah
1980s Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic
1990s Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
2000s Geoff Tibballs: No-Balls and Googlies: A Cricket Companion

TBR books that qualify for the RD challenge (2 listed per decade):
1900s Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career (1901)
1900s Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
1910s Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (1911)
1910s James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
1920s Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary (1922)
1920s F Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
1930s Daphen du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
1930s Nathaniel West: The Day of the Locust (1939)
1940s Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank (1947)
1940s Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1946)
1950s Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952)
1950s CS Lewis: The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) (1950)
1960s Ann Holm: I am David (1965)
1960s Charles Webb: The Graduate (1963)
1970s Richard Adams: Watership Down (1972)
1970s Robert C O'Brien: Z for Zachariah (1975)
1980s Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow (1980)
1980s John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
1990s Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (1997)
1990s Tim Winton: Cloudstreet (1991)
2000s Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair (2001)
2000s Maggie O'Farrell: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)

Other RD books I'd like to own and read:
None. I have enough choice as it is!

1001 Books Challenge

Another challenge I've decided to take up is the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge (1K). This incorporates books that are listed in the abovementioned book by Peter Boxall. After reading 22 books last year, my goal this year will be to read 20 books. A lot of these will probably overlap with the Classics Challenge and also the Reading through the Decades Challenge.

1K reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
John Banville: The Book of Evidence
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Graham Greene: The Third Man & The Fallen Idol
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Charles Webb: The Graduate
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

TBR books that qualify for the 1K challenge (max 25 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Ian McEwan: Enduring Love
Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
Edgar Allen Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Charles Webb: The Graduate

Other 1K books I'd like to own and read (max 10 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Graham Greene: The Third Man
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Wyndham: Chocky