With new book buying ban in 2017 I turn to my bookshelves and my Kindle, I won’t run short of things to read with around 400 books I hoarded in one form or another, so here’s what I would really want to read this year, a wishlist if you will. Just 40, less than last year, I wonder how many I’ll manage this time, last year I managed 13 out of 50, so it shouldn’t be difficult to do better. Some books will repeat, as I still want to read them.
Have you read any of them? Share in the comments!
links are to Amazon website, or to my review if marked (r)
- Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell– Susanna Clarke – DNF, I give up on this one- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
- Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Can Remember it For You Wholesale – Philip K. Dick
House of Cards– Michael DobbsThe Ocean At The End Of The Lane– Neil Gaiman (r)- A Winter Book – Tove Jansson
- Satantango – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy– John Le Carré (r)Music for the Torching– A. M. Homes (r)- How to be Both – Ali Smith
- The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last– Margaret Atwood (r)Let Me Tell You– Shirley Jackson (r)- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
House of Day, House of Night– Olga Tokarczuk (r)England, England– Julian Barnes (r)Cloud Atlas– David Mitchell (r)Sofia Khan is not Obliged-Ayisha Malik (r)The Year of Magical Thinking– Joan Didion (r)Somewhere Towards the End– Diana Athill (r)- The Good Terrorist – Dorris Lessing
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
I Married a Communist– Philip Roth (r)This is London– Ben Judah (r)The Trouble with Goats and Sheep– Joanna Cannon (r)American Gods– Neil Gaiman (r)It– Stephen King (r)- Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Three Men in a Boat– Jerome K. Jerome (r)We Need to Talk About Kevin– Lionel Shriver (r)Big Brother– Lionel Shriver (r)