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)Â 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