The List

These are my book lists. They are a little confusing, I guess, so I'll do my best to explain them and how I keep track of them. This top list is my pool of 111 books. I will always have a pool of 111 books to choose from. Once a book on here has been read, it is moved to the bottom list, of finished books. Then, a book from the middle list is selected at random to take its place.

1. The Behaviour of Moths – Poppy Adams - 2010
2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott - 2008
3. The Pregnant Widow – Martin Amis
4. Mad, Bad and Sad – Lisa Appignanesi - 2011
5. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood - 2009
6. The Tent – Margaret Atwood - 2008
7. City of Glass – Paul Auster - 2010
8. Crash – JG Ballard - 2010
9. Transition – Ian Banks - 2011
10. What It Is – Linda Barry
11. Nurture Shock – Po Bronson - 2010
12. The Lost Continent – Bill Bryson - 2009
13. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson - 2009
14. X-ed Out – Chalres Burns
15. Wilson – Daniel Clowes
16. The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe - 2010
17. Gates of Eden – Ethan Coen - 2009
18. Generation X & Generation A – Douglas Coupland - 2010
19. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski - 2010
20. True Things About Me – Deborah Kay Davies - 2010
21. Customer Service – Benoit Dureutre - 2010
22. Sum – David Eagleman - 2010
23. The 19^th Wife – David Ebershoff - 2010
24. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Dave Eggers - 2010
25. How We Are Hungry – Dave Eggers - 2010
26. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers - 2008
27. Bait and Switch & Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich - 2010
28. Smile or Die – Barbara Ehrenreich - 2010
29. Twilight of the Supeheroes – Deborah Eisenberg - 2010
30. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides - 2010
31. Ten Stories About Smoking - Stuart Evers
32. Footnoes to Sex – Mia Farlane - 2010
33. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer - 2010
34. The Age of Obscurity – Michael Foley - 2010
35. The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
36. Tiger, Tiger - Margaux Fragoso
37. Palo Alto – James Franco - 2011
38. A Million Little Pieces – James Frey - 2009
39. Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman – 2006
40. Howl – Allen Ginsberg
41. Resurrection – Mark Guggenheim - 2010
42. Tinkers – Paul Harding - 2011
43. In Praise of Slow – Carl Honore - 2010
44. Atomised – Michel Houllebecq - 2008
45. Spurious - Lars Iyer
46. The Waterproof Bible – Andrew Kaufman - 2010
47. On the Road – Jack Kerouac - 2009
48. The End of Overeating – David Kessler - 2010
49. Lisey’s Story – Stephen King - 2009
50. Blockade Billy – Stephen King - 2010
51. Danse Macabre – Stephen King - 2008
52. Secret Windows – Stephen King - 2010
53. Eat Your Heart Out – Felicity Lawrence - 2010
54. Richard Yates – Tao Lin - 2010
55. Bed – Tao Lin - 2010
56. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist - 2009
57. The Ask – Sam Lipsyte - 2011
58. Hospital – Toby Litt - 2010
59. Naïve. Super – Erlend Loe – 2008
60. Girls – Luna Brothers - 2011
61. And This is True – Emily Mackie
62. A Book of Silence – Sarah Maitland - 2010
63. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 2008
64. Life of Pi – Yann Martel - 2008
65. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier - 2008
66. No Country For Old Men – Cormac McCarthy - 2009
67. C – Tom McCarthy
68. Even the Dogs – Jon McGregor - 2011
69. Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInery - 2010
70. This Is Not Chick Lit - Elizabeth Merrick
71. Ten Storey Love Song – Richard Milward - 2009
72. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell - 2009
73. Collected Stories – Lorrie Moore - 2010
74. Runaway – Alice Munro - 2010
75. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami - 2010
76. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama - 2009
77. Fugitives and Refugees – Chuck Palahniuk - 2010
78. Diary – Chuck Palahniuk - 2010
79. People Who Eat Darkness – Richard Lloyd Parry
80. Stuffed and Starved – Raj Patel - 2010
81. Youth in Revolt – C.D. Payne - 2010
82. Repeat it Today with Tears – Anne Peile
83. The Losers’ Club – Richard Perez - 2010
84. The Well and the Mine – Gin Phillips - 2010
85. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maitenence – Robert Pirsig - 2008
86. The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan - 2010
87. Half the Human Race – Anthony Quinn
88. Reclaiming the F Word – Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune - 2011
89. Anthropology – Dan Rhodes - 2010
90. How to Live Off-Grid – Nick Rosen - 2010
91. The Philosopher and the Wolf – Mark Rowlands - 2008
92. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
93. 253 – Geoff Ryman - 2010
94. The Blindfold Test – Barry Schecter - 2010
95. Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser - 2010
96. Sex – Granta 110 - 2010
97. The Accidental – Ali Smith - 2010
98. The Book of Other People & Changing My Mind– Zadie Smith - 2010
99. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solint - 2011
100. Solitude: A Return to the Self – Anthony Storr - 2011
101. Spring – David Szalay
102. A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz
103. The Road to the Dark Tower – Bev Vincent - 2010
104. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut - 2008
105. Yes Man – Danny Wallace – 2006
106. Peter and Max – Bill Willingham - 2011
107. The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf – 2010
108. The Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft  - 2011
109. New York Four – Brian Wood
110. Bonsai – Alejandro Zambra – 2010

This is the list of books that I have accumulated since around 2005. The year is the year they were acquired, not the year they were published. My aim in to read them. All of them. In no particular order.

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Update: 4th February & 9th February

Since doing work experience at Random House in London, I have resigned myself to accumulating more books. This is the secondary list.

1. O: A Presidential Novel - Anonymous
2. Unnatural – Philip Ball
3. Pulse – Julian Barnes
4. The Tangled Spell - Carolyn Bear
5. Boxer Beetle - Ned Beauman
6. The Afterparty – Leo Benedictus
7. Glister – John Burnside
8. Savage Lands – Clare Clark
9. Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
10. Miss Wyoming – Douglas Coupland
11. Logicomix - Apostos Doxiadis
12. A Week in December – Sebastian Faulks
13. Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde
14. Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
15. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Hate: A Romance - Tristan Garcia
17. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Moshim Hamid
18. The Rime of the Modern Mariner – Nick Hayes
19. This Book Will Save Your Life - A. M. Homes
20. Deloume Road – Matthew Hooton
21. The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
22. Five Bells – Gail Jones
23. Advice For Strays – Justine Kilkerr
24. Chew Volume 1 – John Layman
25. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26. The Lost Book of the Odyssey – Zachary Mason
27. Solar – Ian McEwan
28. What to Look for in Winter – Candia McWillaim
29. February – Lisa Moore
30. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? – Lorrie Moore
31. A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
32. Menage – Ewan Morrison
33. Beloved – Toni Morrison
34. Personal Days – Ed Park
35. Teach Us to Sit Still – Tim Parks
36. The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
37. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
38. Life Inc. – Douglas Rushkoff
39. St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell
40. Precious – Sapphire
41. Firmin - Sam Savage
42. Small is Beautiful – E. F. Schumacher
43. The End – Salvatore Scibona
44. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
45. The Dubious Salvation of Jack V. – Jacques Strauss
46. The Lonely Polygamist – Bradley Udall
47. The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
48. Reheated Cabbage – Irvine Welsh
49. In Great Waters – Kit Whitfield
50. How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe – Charles Yu

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The finished books - click on the title to see my review.

1. The Help – Kathryn Stockett - 2011
2. Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon & The Escapists – Brian K. Vaughan - 2010/2011
3. Your Voice in my Head – Emma Forrest - 2011
4. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson - 2009
5. Fup – Jim Dodge - 2010
6. Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart - 2011
7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz - 2010
8. Local – Brian Wood - 2010
9. The Death of Bunny Munro – Nick Cave - 2010
10. The Still Point – Amy Sackville - 2010
11. The Beaufort Diaries – T Cooper - 2010
12. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly - Jean Dominique Bauby - 2008
13. This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper – 2010
14. Tree of Codes - Jonathan Safran Foer and Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
15. Heroes and Villains - Angela Carter
16. The Moneyless Man - Mark Boyle
17. The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King – 2009
18. The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist
19. Things We Didn't See Coming - Stephen Amsterdam
20. Shoot the Damn Dog - Sally Brampton
21. The Best American Comics 2010 edited by Neil Gaiman
22. Darkness Visible - William Styron
23. The Coma - Alex Garland
24. The Illumination - Kevin Brockmeier
25. A Dark Matter - Peter Straub
26. Vignettes of Ystov - William Golsmith
27. Light Boxes - Shane Jones
28. Annabel - Kathleen Winter
29. The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
30. Black Hole - Charles Burns
31. Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
32. The Devil Within - Stephanie Merritt
33. Northline - Willy Vlautin
34. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
35. Delirium - Lauren Oliver
36. Player One - Douglas Coupland
37. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
38. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
39. The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
40. The Game - Neil Strauss
41. World War Z - Max Brooks
42. Grow Up - Ben Brooks
43. Go To Sleep - Helen Walsh
44. The Night Bookmobile - Audrey Niffenegger
45. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
46. Bed - David Whitehouse
47. Sarah - J.T. Leroy
48. How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
49. The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan
50. Wilson by Daniel Clowes