TBR Pile (2019 Edition)

As of January 1, the full list is at 244. Yikes. A few of these are rereads, many more were half-finished years ago, but the vast majority are in the never-read category. I’ll cross off titles as I read them.

1. Abandoned by A.L. Todd
2. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
3. The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil (NetGalley)
4. Airframe by Michael Crichton
5. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
7. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
9. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
10. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
11. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
12. The Appointment by Herta Muller
13. Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain
14. The Art of Disappearing by Ivy Pachoda
15. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
16. Animal Farm by George Orwell
17. Atonement by Ian McEwan
18. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
19. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
20. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
21. The Beauties by Anton Chekov (compilation)
22. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
23. Being Dead by Jim Crace
24. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
25. Beloved by Toni Morrison
26. The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
27. Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
28. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
29. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
30. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
31. Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
32. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
33. Bone Deep by Sandra Ireland (NetGalley)
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
35. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
36. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
37. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
38. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
39. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
40. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
41. Burmese Days by George Orwell
42. Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
43. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
44. Candide by Voltaire
45. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
46. The Chimes by Anna Smaill
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
49. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
51. City and the Stars, The — Arthur C. Clarke
52. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
53. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
54. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
55. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
56. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
57. Crooked House by Agatha Christie
58. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
59. Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
60. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
61. Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
62. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
63. The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
64. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
65. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
66. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
67. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
68. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
69. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
70. Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
71. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
72. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
73. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
74. Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin
75. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
76. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
77. The Double and the Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
78. Drown by Junot Diaz
79. Dubliners by James Joyce
80. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
81. East, West by Salman Rushdie
82. Educated by Tara Westover
83. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
84. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
85. Evelina by Frances Burnet
86. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
87. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
88. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
89. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
90. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
91. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
92. Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
93. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
94. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
96. The Four Books by Yan Lianke
97. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
98. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
99. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
100. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
101. From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
102. Frozen in Time by Oswer Beattie and John Geiger
103. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
104. Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
105. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
106. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
107. Go West by David Quantick (NetGalley)
108. The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie (NetGalley)
109. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
110. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
111. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
112. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
113. Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
114. Grant by Ron Chernow
115. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
116. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
117. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
118. The Green Road by Anne Enright
119. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
120. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
121. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
122. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
123. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
124. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
125. The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
126. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
127. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
128. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
129. Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
130. Hello America by J.G. Ballard
131. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
132. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
133. His Bloody Project by Graeme McCrae Burnet
134. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
135. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
136. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
137. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
138. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
139. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
140. I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwabani
141. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
142. If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
143. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
144. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
145. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
146. Independence Day by Richard Ford
147. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
148. The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan
149. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
150. J by Howard Jacobson
151. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
152. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
153. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
154. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
155. Kafka on the Shore by Hideki Murakami
156. Keep the Apidistra Flying by George Orwell
157. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
158. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
159. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flannery
160. The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
161. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
162. Lamentation by C.J. Sansom
163. Lathe of Heaven, The — Ursula K. Le Guin
164. League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
165. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
166. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
167. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
168. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
169. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
170. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
171. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
172. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
173. Lucky Jim by Amis Kingsley
174. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
175. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
176. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
177. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
178. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
179. Mao II by Don DeLillo
180. March by Geraldine Brooks
181. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
182. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
183. Memories by My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
184. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
185. Milkman by Anna Burns
186. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
187. Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
188. Mort by Terry Pratchett
189. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
190. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
191. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
192. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
193. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
194. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
195. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
196. The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
197. The Overstory by Richard Powers
198. Paradise by Toni Morrison
199. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
200. Passing by Stella Larsen
201. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
202. People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
203. Persuasion by Jane Austen
204. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
205. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
206. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
207. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
208. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
209. Redwall by Brian Jacques
210. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
211. The Revenant by Michael Punke
212. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
213. Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
214. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
215. Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard
216. Sandman by J. Robert Janes
217. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
218. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
219. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
220. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
221. Shogun by James Clavell
222. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
223. Silas Marner by George Eliot
224. Sleep Room by F.R.Tallis
225. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
226. Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto (NetGalley)
227. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
228. Sovereign by C.J. Sansom
229. Sphere by Michael Crichton
230. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
231. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
232. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
233. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
234. The Stranger by Albert Camus
235. Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
236. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
237. The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
238. Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
239. Stonekiller by J. Robert Janes
240. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
241. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
242. The Sun Is God by Adrian McKinty
243. Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
244. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
245. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
246. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
247. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
248. Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
249. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
250. There There by Tommy Orange
251. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
252. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
253. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
254. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
255. The Things We Don’t Do by Andres Neuman
256. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
257. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
258. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
259. Tinkers by Paul Harding
260. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
261. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
262. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
263. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
264. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
265. Underworld by Don DeLillo
266. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
267. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
268. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
269. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
270. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
271. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
272. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
273. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
274. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
275. Watership Down by Richard Adams
276. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
277. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
278. The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
279. White Horses by Alice Hoffman
280. White Noise by Don DeLillo
281. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
282. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
283. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
284. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
285. Wool by Hugh Howey
286. World Without End by Ken Follett
287. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
288. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
289. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
290. You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
291. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
292. Zero K by Don DeLillo