Like all book bloggers in the blogosphere, I endeavor to get my TBR pile under control. My books have piled up over the last decade (especially classics—they’re free!) and I rarely have as much reading time as I’d like.

The best part of reading through this pile? If any books are awful, I can lug them to a used bookshop to sell/swap for other [better?] books. Also, I’m going to prioritize books that have been loaned to me so they can be reunited with their rightful owners as soon as possible.

Current Stack of Unread (and Unfinished) Books: 219
Books Read Since January 1st: 5
Books Added Since January 1st: 2
Goal: To get this list to 175 by June 30, 2017 — 44 to go!

1. Absurdistan
2. Acceptable Time, An
3. Airframe
4. Alias Grace
5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
6. All the Light We Cannot See (new)
7. All the Pretty Horses
8. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The
9. American Psycho
10. And the Mountains Echoed
11. Angels and Demons
12. Angel’s Game, The
13. Appointment, The
14. Art of Disappearing, The
15. At Bertram’s Hotel
16. Atonement
17. Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The
18. Baudolino
19. Beloved
20. Bitter Water
21. Black Swan Green
22. Bleak House
23. Bloody Chamber, The
24. Blue Mars
25. Body in the Library, The
26. Brave New World
27. Breathing Lessons
28. Brideshead Revisited
29. Brief History of Seven Killings, A
30. Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The
31. Bring Up the Bodies
32. Brooklyn
33. Brothers Karamazov, The
    Bullet Catch, The (read!)
34. Buried Giant, The
35. Caribbean Mystery, A
36. Catch-22
37. Christine Falls
38. Christmas Carol, A
39. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
40. Cider House Rules, The
41. Cold Mountain
42. Collected Stories (Hemingway)
43. Collected Stories (Marquez)
44. Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, The
45. Consider the Lobster
46. Cosmopolis
47. Crime and Punishment
48. Crimson Petal and the White, The
49. Crying of Lot 49, The
50. Cryptonomicon
51. Crystal World, The
52. Dandelion Wine
53. David Copperfield
54. Dead Wake
55. Devil in the White City, The
56. Disorder Peculiar to the Country, A
57. Drown
58. Drowned World, The
59. Dubliners
60. East, West
61. Eternal Wonder, The
62. Everything Is Illuminated
63. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
64. Familiar (One Rainy Day in May), The
65. Fortress of Solitude, The
66. Four Books, The
67. General in His Labyrinth, The
68. Girl on the Train, The
69. Girl with a Pearl Earring
70. Goldfinch, The
71. Gould’s Book of Fish
72. Green Mars
73. Green Road, The
74. Half of a Yellow Sun
75. Hallucinations
76. Ham on Rye
77. Handmaid’s Tale, The
78. Hanging Shed, The
79. Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
80. Heart of Darkness
81. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A
82. Hello America
83. His Bloody Project
84. Hologram for the King, A
85. How We Are Hungry
86. Hungry Hill (new)
87. I Do Not Come to You By Chance
88. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
89. In the Garden of Beasts
90. Invisible Circus, The
91. J
92. Jane and Prudence
93. Jane Eyre
94. Joseph Anton
95. King in Yellow, The
96. Kingdom Come
97. Kingdom of Ohio, The
98. Kite Runner, The
99. Knife Thrower, The (and other stories)
100. Let the Great World Spin
101. Let the Right One In
102. Life After Life
103. Little Life, A
104. Little Women
105. Lolita
106. Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The
107. Long Way Down, A
108. Lord Jim
109. Lost Symbol, The
110. Love in the Time of Cholera
111. Madame Bovary
112. Man in the High Castle, The
113. Mansfield Park
114. Many Waters
115. Master, The
116. Master and Margarita, The
117. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
118. Middlesex
119. Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, The
     Miser’s Dream, The (read!)
120. Moby Dick
121. Moor’s Account, The
122. Moriarty
123. Moving Finger, The
     The Murder of the Century (read!)
     Murder at the Vicarage, The (read!)
124. Murder is Announced, A
125. My Brilliant Friend
126. My Name is Red
127. Namesake, The
128. Nemesis
129. Never Let Me Go
130. Northanger Abbey
131. Number 9 Dream
132. One Hundred Years of Solitude
133. One Summer, America 1927
134. Outer Dark
135. Paradise
136. Passage to India, A
137. Pattern Recognition
138. People of the Mist, The
139. Play It as It Lays
140. Pocket Full of Rye, A
141. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
142. Pride and Prejudice
143. Prisoner of Heaven, The
144. Quicksilver
145. Quo Vadis
146. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
147. Red Mars
148. Redwall
149. Revolutionary Road
150. Rising Sun
151. Roverandum
152. Russian Debutante’s Handbook, The
153. S. (Ship of Theseus)
154. Sandman
155. Satanic Verses, The
156. Seize the Day
     Sellout, The (read!)
157. Series of Unfortunate Events, A
158. Shape of Water, The
159. She
160. Sherlock Holmes (stories inspired by)
161. Shipping News, The
162. Sign of the Four, The
163. Silas Marner
164. Sleep Donation
165. Sleep Room, The
166. Sleeping Murder
167. So, Anyway…
168. Sound and the Fury, The
169. Sphere
170. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
171. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
172. Station Eleven
173. Stone Mattress
174. Stonekiller
175. Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The
176. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
177. Stranger, The
178. Sun Is God, The
179. Super-Cannes
180. Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, A
181. Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
182. Suttree
183. Swiftly Tilting Planet, A
184. Sympathizer, The
185. Tale of the Unknown Island, The
186. Terra-Cotta Dog, The
187. Tess of the d’Ubervilles
188. Thank You For Smoking
189. Then We Came to the End
190. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
191. They Do It With Mirrors
192. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
193. Things We Carried, The
194. Things We Don’t Do, The
195. This Is Where I Leave You
196. Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet, The
197. Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A
198. Tinkers
199. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
200. Underworld
201. Unlimited Dream Company, The
202. Unnamed, The
203. Visit from the Goon Squad, A
204. Waiting for Godot
205. Water for Elephants
206. Watership Down
207. Where I’m Calling From
208. White Boy Shuffle, The
209. White Noise
210. White Teeth
211. Wind in the Door, The
212. Wrinkle in Time (quintet), A
213. Wuthering Heights
214. Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The
215. You Are Not a Stranger Here
216. You Don’t Love Me Yet
217. You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
218. You Shall Know Our Velocity
219. 4:50 from Paddington