giovedì 3 gennaio 2013

My never-ending to-be-read list.

As my New Year Resolution number 4 states, I want to read more in 2013.

My bookshelf is full of books that I purchased or received as a gift over the last few years and that I still need to read. Today I decided to list them all down and I am now aware that I have books enough to read for a good five years!

I want to share this list with you, is there any book on my shelf that you've already read and suggest I put forward in my reading order?

1) Let's Roll - Lisa Beamet
2) Chicken Soup for the Soul - Teacher Tales
3) Be Faithful Unto Death - Zsigmond Mòricz
4) London's Strangest Tales
5) Dicken's England - Tony Linch
6) The House in Clewe Street - Mary Lavin
7) Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
8) Pearl of China - Anchee Min
9) The Wise Woman - Philippa Gregory
10) Earthly Joys - Philippa Gregory
11)  The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory
12) Meridon - Philippa Gregory
13) The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
14) Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
15) Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
16) Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
17) The Confession of Katherine Howard - Suzannah Dunn
18) Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
19) Thanksgiving Night - Richard Bausch
20) The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
21) The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
22) Charity Girl - Michael Lowenthal
23) For the Love of Prague - Gene Deitch
24) Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
25) 'Tis - Frank Mc Court
26) The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
27) Ireland, a novel - Frank Delaney
28) Don't forget to write - Pam Hobbs
29) The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
30) March - Geraldine Brooks
31) Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
32) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33) Villette - Charlotte Bronte
34) Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
35) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
36) All That I am - Anna Funder
37) Digging To America - Anne Tyles
38) The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy
39) Anything Goes - Billy Hopkins
40) Miss Purdy's Class - Annie Murray
41) A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin - Helen Forrester
42) Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
43) Alias Grace - Margaret Athwood
44) London - Edward Rutherfurd
45) Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
46) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
47) The Twins - Tessa de Loo
48) No Impact Man - Colin Beavan
49) Vanity Fair - W. Thackeray
50) Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoj
51) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
52) Beautiful Child - Torey L. Hayden
53) The Rotter's Club - Jonathan Coe
54) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
55) Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
56) Tess of the D'Ubervilles-  Thomas Hardy
57) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
58) Middlemarch - George Eliott

Books to-be-read in my Kindle library:

59) The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkien
60) North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
61) War Brides - Helen Bryan
62) Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
63) World War II London Blitz Diary
64) Dublin - Edward Rutherfurd
65) The English German Girl - Jake Wallis Simons
66) The Blue Suitcase - Marianne Wheelaghan
67) Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl - Elizabeth Byler Younts
68) The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
69) The Mill on the Floss - George Eliott
70) Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
71)  Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
72) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
73) High Hopes - Billy Hopkins
74) Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
75) The Mistery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
76) Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
77) Sketches of Young Couples - Charles Dickens

With a reading pace of 20-21 books per year, I am safe for almost 4 years! Ahah...




2 commenti:

  1. You don't want to end having some time on your hand, but no books at all to read, so... better have too much! ;-)

    I really loved "The Colour Purple", so that's one I'd definitely recommend! "The Glass Lake" is also on my To Be Read List, and I was actually considering reading it next, as I've read some dark stuff lately, and I need that kind of happy, comforting read right now...

    RispondiElimina
    Risposte
    1. I'll move The Color Purple forward in my reading list then! :)

      Elimina