Musing: books - To Be Read

[wilderthan]

My to be read shelves are kind of epic. After bottle_of_shine posted hers, here, I thought I'd follow suit. Which resulted in me first embarking on an epic reorganisation of my shelves, and then in me wondering how accurate my to be read list is. So I'm going to redo the list too. I'll post the list I've got right now for a start, but edit in the new list once I'm done.

These all include books to reread and books I keep around on my shelves anyway, so it's not all "to be read", but... most of it. Everything on the list is what I intend to read sometime soon.



I think you can mostly read the titles there. If you want a closer look, here. This motley collection contains books I'm borrowing from libraries and people, books I currently have on the go, books that don't fit on my shelves. Historical fiction, fantasy, poetry, sci-fi... my usual mix, but probably in misleading proportions.



See it better here. This is nominally my lit shelf, containing poetry and stuff like Austen and Dostoyevsky. But then you've got some crossover from sci-fi, historical fiction... all depends on how you categorise things. And there's philosophy, too. There's a book or two hiding; sorry about that, can't get the greatest angle on this shelf. You get the gist. Notice all the little green and white penguins? They make me feel so virtuous. Only cost £2, and are made of 100% recycled paper.



Intended to be my speculative fiction shelf. Better view here. Stephen King gets lumped in there despite his genre-defying tendencies, historical fiction has snuck in there too... it's quite insidious, really.

Would you believe that August 08 saw me bringing just fifteen or so new books to university with me? And that I didn't buy any new books over Lent? And that this isn't quite it, because there are some books waiting for me back at home? Aaarrrghhh I'm crazy. Every time I want to buy a new book, I should come back to this page and stare at it.

New Improved List
(Alphabetical by author surname, rereads starred.)

Anonymous, The Death of King Arthur. (Translator: James Cable.)
Anonymous, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Translator: Brian Stone.)
Anonymous, Beowulf. (Translator: Seamus Heaney.)*
Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride.
Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm.
Neal Asher, Gridlinked.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park.
Jane Austen, Emma.
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Jane Austen, Lady Susan.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation.
Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust.
Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun.
Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games.
Charlotte Brontë, Villette.
Chris Bunch, Storm of Wings.
Chris Bunch, Knighthood of the Dragon.
Chris Bunch, The Last Battle.
Collection, Book of Dreams.
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo.
Bernard Cornwell, The Sea Lord.
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves.
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy.*
Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities.
Stephen Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane.
Stephen Donaldson, The Illearth War.
Stephen Donaldson, The Power That Preserves.
Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land.
Stephen Donaldson, The One Tree.
Stephen Donaldson, White Gold Wielder.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Karamazov Brothers.
Graham Edwards, Dragoncharm.
Graham Edwards, Dragonstorm.
Graham Edwards, Dragonflame.
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
George Eliot, Middlemarch.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night.
John Fowles, The Collector.
Mary Gentle, 1610: Sundial in a Grave.
Margaret George, Helen of Troy.
Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra.
Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII.
Robert Graves, I, Claudius.
Robert Graves, Claudius the God.
Jane Griffiths, Icarus on Earth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter.
Tanya Huff, Blood Price.
Tanya Huff, Blood Trail.
Tanya Huff, Blood Lines.
Tanya Huff, Blood Pact.
Tanya Huff, Blood Debt.
Tanya Huff, Blood Bank.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady.
James Joyce, Ulysses.
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.
Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air.*
Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways.
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree.*
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Wandering Fire.*
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Darkest Road.*
Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Stephen King, The Dead Zone.
Stephen King, Christine.
Stephen King, Gerald's Game.
Stephen King, Needful Things.
Stephen King, Desperation.
Stephen King, Rose Madder.
Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three.
Stephen King, The Waste Lands.
Stephen King, Wizard and Glass.
Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla.
Stephen King, Song for Susannah.
Stephen King, The Dark Tower.
Stephen King, Misery.
Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis.
Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne.
Stephen King, The Dark Half.
Stephen King, Lisey's Story.
Stephen King, Different Seasons.
Stephen King, Danse Macabre.
Stephen King, Cujo.
Stephen King, The Tommyknockers.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer.
Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings.
Stephen Lawhead, Taliesin.
Stephen Lawhead, Merlin.
Stephen Lawhead, Arthur.
Stephen Lawhead, Pendragon.
Stephen Lawhead, Grail.
Stephen Lawhead, Avalon.
Stephen Lawhead, Byzantium.
Stephen Lawhead, The Search for Fierra.
Stephen Lawhead, The Siege of Dome.
Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home.
Ursula Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron.
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera.
Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn.
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca.
Ian McEwan, Atonement.
Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang.
Robin McKinley, Sunshine.*
Robin McKinley, Deerskin.
Robin McKinley, Spindle's End.
China Miéville, The Scar.
China Miéville, Iron Council.
Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage.
Karen Miller, The Awakened Mage.
Caiseal Mor, The Circle and the Cross.
Caiseal Mor, The Song of the Earth.
Caiseal Mor, The Water of Life.
Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade.
Naomi Novik, Black Powder War.
Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory.
Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan.
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast.
Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone.
Sharon Penman, Here Be Dragons.
Sharon Penman, Falls the Shadow.
Sharon Penman, The Reckoning.
Sharon Penman, The Sunne in Splendour.
Plato, The Republic.*
Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales of.
John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades.
John Scalzi, The Last Colony.
Clifford D. Simak, Out of Their Minds.
Peter Singer, Practical Ethics.*
Maria Snyder, Poison Study.
Maria Snyder, Magic Study.
Maria Snyder, Fire Study.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King.
Craig Thompson, Blankets.
Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days.

(That's ~149 books.)

Edit: Oh, of course, this doesn't include my ebooks, which are less organised due to computer problems, and which are not my priority.