TBR Pile (2020 Edition)

As of January 1, the full list is at 293. Yikes. A few are rereads, some 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. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window by Jonas Jonasson
2. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
3. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
4. The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil (NetGalley)
5. Airframe by Michael Crichton
6. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
8. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
11. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
12. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
13. The Appointment by Herta Muller
14. Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain
15. The Art of Disappearing by Ivy Pachoda
16. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. Atonement by Ian McEwan
19. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
20. The Beauties by Anton Chekov (compilation)
21. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
22. Being Dead by Jim Crace
23. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison
25. The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
26. Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
27. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
28. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
29. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
30. Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
31. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
32. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
33. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
34. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
35. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
36. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
37. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
39. Burmese Days by George Orwell
40. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret
41. Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
42. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
43. Candide by Voltaire
44. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
45. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
46. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
47. The Chimes by Anna Smaill
48. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
49. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
51. Circe by Madeline Miller
52. City and the Stars, The — Arthur C. Clarke
53. Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers
54. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
55. Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff
56. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
57. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
58. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
59. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
62. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
63. Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
64. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
65. The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
66. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
67. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
68. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
69. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
70. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
71. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
72. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
73. Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
74. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
75. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
76. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
77. Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin
78. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
79. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
80. The Double and the Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
81. Drown by Junot Diaz
82. Dubliners by James Joyce
83. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
84. East, West by Salman Rushdie
85. Educated by Tara Westover
86. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
87. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
88. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
89. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
90. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
91. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
92. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
93. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
94. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
95. Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
96. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
97. Florida by Lauren Groff
98. Fly Already by Etgar Keret
99. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
100. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
101. The Four Books by Yan Lianke
102. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
103. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
104. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
105. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
106. From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
107. Frozen in Time by Oswer Beattie and John Geiger
108. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
109. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
110. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
111. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
112. Go West by David Quantick (NetGalley)
113. The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie (NetGalley)
114. The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
115. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
116. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
117. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
118. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
119. Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
120. Grant by Ron Chernow
121. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
122. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
123. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
124. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
125. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
126. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
127. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
128. The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
129. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
130. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
131. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
132. Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
133. Hello America by J.G. Ballard
134. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
135. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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 Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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. Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
151. J by Howard Jacobson
152. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
153. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
154. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
155. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
156. Kafka on the Shore by Hideki Murakami
157. Keep the Apidistra Flying by George Orwell
158. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
159. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
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. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
164. Lathe of Heaven, The — Ursula K. Le Guin
165. League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
166. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
167. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
168. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
169. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
178. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
179. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
180. Mao II by Don DeLillo
181. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
182. The Master by Colm Toibin
183. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
184. Memories by My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
185. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
186. Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
187. Mort by Terry Pratchett
188. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
189. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
190. Normal People by Sally Rooney
191. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
192. One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
193. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
194. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
195. The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
196. The Overstory by Richard Powers
197. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
198. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
199. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
200. Paradise by Toni Morrison
201. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
202. Passing by Stella Larsen
203. People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
204. Persuasion by Jane Austen
205. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
206. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
207. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
208. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
209. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
210. Redwall by Brian Jacques
211. Regeneration by Pat Barker
212. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
213. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
214. Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
215. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
216. Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard
217. Sandman by J. Robert Janes
218. The Sea by John Banville
219. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
220. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
221. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
222. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
223. Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
224. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
225. Shogun by James Clavell
226. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
227. The Silas Marner by George Eliot
228. Sleep Room by F.R.Tallis
229. Snobs by Julian Fellowes
230. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
231. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
232. Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto (NetGalley)
233. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
234. Sovereign by C.J. Sansom
235. Sphere by Michael Crichton
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 Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
242. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
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. Supermarket by Bobby Hall
250. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
251. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
252. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
253. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
254. Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
255. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
256. There There by Tommy Orange
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. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
264. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
265. Tinkers by Paul Harding
266. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
267. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
268. The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
269. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
270. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
271. Underworld by Don DeLillo
272. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
273. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
274. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
275. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
276. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
277. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
278. Watership Down by Richard Adams
279. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
280. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
281. The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
282. White Horses by Alice Hoffman
283. White Noise by Don DeLillo
284. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
285. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
286. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
287. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
288. Wool by Hugh Howey
289. World Without End by Ken Follett
290. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
291. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
292. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
293. Zero K by Don DeLillo