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