To Be Read Pile
Books I own and haven't read yet list. Will update by adding new purchases and striking out the few, the lucky few, that actually get read.
Classics:
Willa Cather One of Us
Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Homer The Illiad trans. Robert Fagles
James Joyce Ulysses
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Marcel Proust Swann's Way trans. Lydia Davis
Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Virginia Woolf Orlando
General/Recent Fiction:
Sarah Addison Allen The Sugar Queen
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Andre Breton Nadja
A.S. Byatt The Biographer's Tale; Still Life; Babel Tower
Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler
Therese Hak Kyung Cha Dictee
Tracy Chevalier The Lady and the Unicorn
Sandra Cisneros Caramelo
Leonard Cohen The Favorite Game
Mark Z. Danielewski Only Revolutions
Don DeLillo Americana; Cosmopolis
Sarah Dunant The Birth of Venus
Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity
Buchi Emecheta The Joys of Motherhood
Jeffry Eugenides Middlesex
Ian Fleming - all the James Bond novels
Stepehn Fry The Liar
Diana Gabaldon An Echo in the Bone
Mary Gaitskill Bad Behavior; Veronica
Myla Goldberg Bee Season
Robert Graves I, Claudius
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns
Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
Gregory Maguire Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Cormac McCarthy The Crossing
Larry McMurtry Boone's Lick
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
Iris Murdoch The Bell
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife
Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Christopher Priest The Prestige
Thomas Pynchon V.; Vineland; Against the Day
Kathy Reichs Deja Dead; Bare Bones; Break No Bones; Cross Bones
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Thomas Sanchez Mile Zero
Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
Curtis Sittenfeld Prep
Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Zadie Smith White Teeth; On Beauty
Wallace Stenger Angle of Repose
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Carlos Ruiz Zafron The Shadow of the Wind
SciFi/Fantasy:
Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty (add 4/21/10)
Octavia E. Butler Dawn
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
C.J. Cherryh Foreigner
Stephen Donaldson The Illearth War
C.S. Friedman Black Sun Rising; The Madness Season
Simon R. Green A Walk on the Nightside (first 3 Nightside books)
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice; Royal Assassin; Assassin's Quest
N.K. Jemisin The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Stephen King The Stand; The Waste Lands; Wizard and Glass
Karin Lowachee The Gaslight Dogs (add 4/21/10)
Cherie Priest Boneshaker
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
Michelle West The Broken Crown
Connie Willis Doomsday Book
Non-Fiction:
Paula Gunn Allen Off the Reservation
Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Herbert Asbury The Gangs of New York
Thomas Cahill Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern World
Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Stephanie Coontz Marriage: A History; The Way We Never Were
Sloane Crosley I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
Barry Dainton Time and Space
Niall Ferguson Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (add 4/21/10)
Thomas Frank What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Saidiya Hartman Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
bell hooks Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (add 4/21/10)
Kevin Phillips Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Sarah B. Pomeroy Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Peter Robb M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Edward W. Said Orientalism
Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation
Avi Shlaim The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter
Wendy Wallace Daughter of Dust: Growing up an outcast in the desert of Sudan
Alison Weir Eleanor of Aquitaine
Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxord English Dictionary
Evan Wright Generation Kill
125 books unread at time of list creation 4/8/10
4/21 - 130 books
Classics:
Willa Cather One of Us
Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Homer The Illiad trans. Robert Fagles
James Joyce Ulysses
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Marcel Proust Swann's Way trans. Lydia Davis
Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Virginia Woolf Orlando
General/Recent Fiction:
Sarah Addison Allen The Sugar Queen
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Andre Breton Nadja
A.S. Byatt The Biographer's Tale; Still Life; Babel Tower
Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler
Therese Hak Kyung Cha Dictee
Tracy Chevalier The Lady and the Unicorn
Sandra Cisneros Caramelo
Leonard Cohen The Favorite Game
Mark Z. Danielewski Only Revolutions
Don DeLillo Americana; Cosmopolis
Sarah Dunant The Birth of Venus
Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity
Buchi Emecheta The Joys of Motherhood
Jeffry Eugenides Middlesex
Ian Fleming - all the James Bond novels
Stepehn Fry The Liar
Diana Gabaldon An Echo in the Bone
Mary Gaitskill Bad Behavior; Veronica
Myla Goldberg Bee Season
Robert Graves I, Claudius
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns
Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
Gregory Maguire Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Cormac McCarthy The Crossing
Larry McMurtry Boone's Lick
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
Iris Murdoch The Bell
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife
Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Christopher Priest The Prestige
Thomas Pynchon V.; Vineland; Against the Day
Kathy Reichs Deja Dead; Bare Bones; Break No Bones; Cross Bones
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Thomas Sanchez Mile Zero
Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
Curtis Sittenfeld Prep
Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Zadie Smith White Teeth; On Beauty
Wallace Stenger Angle of Repose
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Carlos Ruiz Zafron The Shadow of the Wind
SciFi/Fantasy:
Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty (add 4/21/10)
Octavia E. Butler Dawn
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
C.J. Cherryh Foreigner
Stephen Donaldson The Illearth War
C.S. Friedman Black Sun Rising; The Madness Season
Simon R. Green A Walk on the Nightside (first 3 Nightside books)
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice; Royal Assassin; Assassin's Quest
N.K. Jemisin The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Stephen King The Stand; The Waste Lands; Wizard and Glass
Karin Lowachee The Gaslight Dogs (add 4/21/10)
Cherie Priest Boneshaker
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
Michelle West The Broken Crown
Connie Willis Doomsday Book
Non-Fiction:
Paula Gunn Allen Off the Reservation
Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Herbert Asbury The Gangs of New York
Thomas Cahill Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern World
Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Stephanie Coontz Marriage: A History; The Way We Never Were
Sloane Crosley I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
Barry Dainton Time and Space
Niall Ferguson Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (add 4/21/10)
Thomas Frank What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Saidiya Hartman Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
bell hooks Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (add 4/21/10)
Kevin Phillips Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Sarah B. Pomeroy Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Peter Robb M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Edward W. Said Orientalism
Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation
Avi Shlaim The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter
Wendy Wallace Daughter of Dust: Growing up an outcast in the desert of Sudan
Alison Weir Eleanor of Aquitaine
Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxord English Dictionary
Evan Wright Generation Kill
125 books unread at time of list creation 4/8/10
4/21 - 130 books