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Book Worm’s 2015 Bookshelf

This year I am aiming to read 120 books a mix of 1001 books as well as non 1001 books assuming life and work stop getting in the way of my reading… Update 10th April 2015 work is getting in the way of my reading 😦 Update 24th June 2015 Half way through the year and I am well behind target I am blaming work especially as I have just started a new job

1) Ulysses James Joyce

2) Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx

3) Faces in the Water Janet Frame

4) A Question of Upbringing Anthony Powell

5) Saving Faith David Baldacci

6) Divine Evil Nora Roberts

7) Four a Divergent Collection Veronica Roth

8) Half of a Yellow Sun

9) Things Fall Apart

10) Surfacing Margaret Atwood

11) The Shining Girls Lauren Beukes

12) Flaubert’s Parrot Julian Barnes

13) Crash J G Ballard

14) The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga

15) Soulless Gail Carriger

16) The Luminaries Eleanor Catton

!7) The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad

18) Imitation in Death J D Robb

19) Wednesday’s Child Peter Robinson

20) How the Irish Saved Civilisation Thomas Cahill

21) A Question of Power Bessie Head

22) The Story of the Eye George Bataille

23) The Acceptance World Anthony Powell

24)  Recovery Stephen Benatar

25) Alamut Vladimir Bartol

26) Nation Terry Pratchett

27) Stardust Neil Gaiman

28) The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell

29) One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night Christopher Brookmyre

30) The 39 Steps John Buchan

31) The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Boll

32) Vathek William Beckford

33) A Suitable Boy Vickram Seth

34) At Lady Molly’s Anthony Powell

35) The Seducer Jan Kjaerstad

36) No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel Garcia Marquez

37) Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

38) Morvern Callar Alan Warner

39) The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White

40) Shame Salman Rushdie

41) Amateurs Donald Barthelme

42 ) Transit Anna Seghers

42) Her Privates We Frederick Manning

43) Shroud John Banville

44) The Goldfinch Donna Tartt

45) Nemesis Philip Roth

46) Some Experiences of an Irish RM Somerville

47) Erewhon Samuel Butler

48) Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover

49) Falling Man Don Delillo

50) Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga

51) Divided in Death J D Robb

52) Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant Anthony Powell

53) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick

54) The Bird Artist Howard Norman

55) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz

56) Journey to the End of the Night Celine

57) The Prince and the Pilgrim Mary Stewart

58) Lila Marilynne Robinson

59) Crime and Punishment

60) Silence Endo

61) Satin Island

62) The Green Road Anne Enright

63) The Illuminations Andrew O’Hagan

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