to be read
A partial list of what might be next — books I’ve bought, borrowed or mooched, and some that I’ve started and never finished, and not to be confused with my wishlist of books I’d like to read but don’t have in my possession, which is a different animal altogether:
The Plague Dogs: A Novel by Richard Adams
An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Blaze by Richard Bachman
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
Corelli’s Mandolin: A Novel by Louis De Bernieres
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Gift of Gold by Beverly Butler
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works by Lewis Carroll
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Where Are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Zoe Lucky and the Green Gables Mystery by M. Carol Coffey
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
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The Gunslinger Born by Peter David
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver
Praying for Sleep by Jeffery Deaver
Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Gathering by Anne Enright
A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
The Chef Who Died Sautéing by Honora Finkelstein
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
World Without End by Ken Follett
The Student Conductor by Robert Ford
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
The Widow’s War by Sally Gunning
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Gentlemen and Players: A Novel by Joanne Harris
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Finding Happiness by Abbot Christopher Jamison
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) by Robert Jordan
New Spring (A Wheel of Time Prequel Novel) by Robert Jordan
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Whistling In the Dark by Lesley Kagen
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
The Shining by Stephen King
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
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If I Am Missing Or Dead by Janine Latus
The Girls by Lori Lansens
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold
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Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R.R. Martin
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
The First Verse by Barry McCrea
Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon
Evening by Susan Minot
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The Eight by Katherine Neville
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
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Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Peony In Love by Lisa See
A Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) by Neal Stephenson
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
What Does Your Doctor Look Like Naked?: Your Guide to Optimum Health by Dr. J. Warren Willey, II
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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