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.

Abandoned by A.L. Todd

1. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
2. The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil (NetGalley)
3. Airframe by Michael Crichton
4. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
6. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
8. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
9. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
10. The Appointment by Herta Muller
11. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
15. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
16. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
17. The Beauties by Anton Chekov (compilation)
18. Being Dead by Jim Crace
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. Beloved by Toni Morrison
21. The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
22. Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
23. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
24. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
25. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
26. Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
27. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
29. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
30. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
31. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
32. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
33. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
34. Burmese Days by George Orwell
35. Candide by Voltaire
36. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
37. The Chimes by Anna Smaill
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
40. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
42. City and the Stars, The — Arthur C. Clarke
43. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
44. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
45. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
46. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
47. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
4. Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
5. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
6. The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
7. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
8. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
9. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
10. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
11. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
12. Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
13. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
14. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
15. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
16. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
17. The Double and the Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. Drown by Junot Diaz
19. Dubliners by James Joyce
20. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
21. East, West by Salman Rushdie
22. Educated by Tara Westover
23. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
24. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
25. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
26. Evelina by Frances Burnet
27. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
28. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
29. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
30. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
31. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
32. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
33. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
34. The Four Books by Yan Lianke
35. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
36. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
37. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
38. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
39. From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
40. Frozen in Time by Oswer Beattie and John Geiger
41. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42. Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
43. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
44. Go West by David Quantick (NetGalley)
45. The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie (NetGalley)
46. Grant by Ron Chernow
47. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
48. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
49. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
50. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
51. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
52. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
53. Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
54. The Green Road by Anne Enright
55. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
56. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
57. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
58. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
59. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
60. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
61. The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
62. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
63. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
64. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
65. Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
66. Hello America by J.G. Ballard
67. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
68. His Bloody Project by Graeme McCrae Burnet
69. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
70. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
72. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
73. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
74. I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwabani
75. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
76. If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
77. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
78. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
79. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
80. Independence Day by Richard Ford
81. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
82. The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan
83. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
84. J by Howard Jacobson
85. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
86. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
87. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
88. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
89. Kafka on the Shore by Hideki Murakami
90. Keep the Apidistra Flying by George Orwell
91. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
92. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
93. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flannery
94. The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
95. Lamentation by C.J. Sansom
96. Lathe of Heaven, The — Ursula K. Le Guin
97. League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
98. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
99. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
100. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
101. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
102. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
103. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
104. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
105. Lucky Jim by Amis Kingsley
106. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
107. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
108. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
109. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
110. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
111. Mao II by Don DeLillo
112. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
113. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
114. Memories by My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
115. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
116. Milkman by Anna Burns
117. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
118. Mort by Terry Pratchett
119. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
120. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
121. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
122. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
123. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
124. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
125. The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
126. The Overstory by Richard Powers
127. Paradise by Toni Morrison
128. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
129. Passing by Stella Larsen
130. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
131. People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
132. Persuasion by Jane Austen
133. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
134. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
135. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
136. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
137. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
138. Redwall by Brian Jacques
139. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
140. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
141. Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
142. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
143. Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard
144. Sandman by J. Robert Janes
145. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
146. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
147. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
148. Shogun by James Clavell
149. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
150. Silas Marner by George Eliot
151. Sleep Room by F.R.Tallis
152. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
153. Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto (NetGalley)
154. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
155. Sovereign by C.J. Sansom
156. Sphere by Michael Crichton
157. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
158. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
159. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
160. The Stranger by Albert Camus
161. Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
162. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
163. The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
164. Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
165. Stonekiller by J. Robert Janes
166. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
167. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
168. The Sun Is God by Adrian McKinty
169. Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
170. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
171. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
172. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
173. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
174. Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
175. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
176. There There by Tommy Orange
177. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
178. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
179. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
180. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
181. The Things We Don’t Do by Andres Neuman
182. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
183. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
184. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
185. Tinkers by Paul Harding
186. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
187. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
188. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
189. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
190. Underworld by Don DeLillo
191. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
192. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
193. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
194. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
195. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
196. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
197. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
198. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
199. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
200. Watership Down by Richard Adams
201. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
202. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
203. The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
204. White Horses by Alice Hoffman
205. White Noise by Don DeLillo
206. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
207. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
208. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
209. The Wondrous Brief Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
210. Wool by Hugh Howey
211. World Without End by Ken Follett
212. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
213. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
214. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
215. You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
216. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
217. Zero K by Don DeLillo