TBR Pile (2020 Edition)

As of January 1, the full list is nearing 300. 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. 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. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
19. The Beauties by Anton Chekov (compilation)
20. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
21. Being Dead by Jim Crace
22. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
23. Beloved by Toni Morrison
24. The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
25. Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
26. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
27. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
28. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
29. Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
30. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
31. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
32. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
33. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
34. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
35. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
36. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
37. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
38. Burmese Days by George Orwell
39. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret
40. Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
41. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
42. Candide by Voltaire
43. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
44. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
45. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
46. The Chimes by Anna Smaill
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
50. Circe by Madeline Miller
51. City and the Stars, The by Arthur C. Clarke
52. Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers
53. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
54. Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff
55. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
56. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
57. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
58. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
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. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
66. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
67. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
68. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
69. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
70. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
71. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
72. Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
73. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
74. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
75. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
76. Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin
77. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
78. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
79. The Double and the Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
80. Drown by Junot Diaz
81. Dubliners by James Joyce
82. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
83. East, West by Salman Rushdie
84. Educated by Tara Westover
85. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
86. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
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. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
92. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
93. Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
94. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
95. Florida by Lauren Groff
96. Fly Already by Etgar Keret
97. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
98. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
99. The Four Books by Yan Lianke
100. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
101. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
102. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
103. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
104. From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
105. Frozen in Time by Oswer Beattie and John Geiger
106. The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
107. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
108. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
109. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
110. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
111. Go West by David Quantick (NetGalley)
112. The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie (NetGalley)
113. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
114. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
115. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
116. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
117. Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
118. Grant by Ron Chernow
119. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
120. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
121. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
122. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
123. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
124. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
125. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
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. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
135. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
136. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
137. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
138. I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwabani
139. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
140. If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
141. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
142. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
143. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
144. Independence Day by Richard Ford
145. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
146. The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan
147. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
148. Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
149. J by Howard Jacobson
150. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
151. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
152. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
153. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
154. Kafka on the Shore by Hideki Murakami
155. Keep the Apidistra Flying by George Orwell
156. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
157. Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
158. The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
159. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
160. Lamentation by C.J. Sansom
161. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
162. Lathe of Heaven, The by Ursula K. Le Guin
163. League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
164. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
165. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
166. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
167. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
176. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
177. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
178. Mao II by Don DeLillo
179. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
180. The Master by Colm Toibin
181. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
182. Memories by My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
184. Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
185. Mort by Terry Pratchett
186. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
187. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
188. Normal People by Sally Rooney
189. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
190. One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
191. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
192. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
193. The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
194. The Overstory by Richard Powers
195. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
196. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
197. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
198. Paradise by Toni Morrison
199. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
200. Passing by Stella Larsen
201. People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
202. Persuasion by Jane Austen
203. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
204. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
205. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
206. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
207. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
208. Redwall by Brian Jacques
209. Regeneration by Pat Barker
210. Revelation by C.J. Sansom
211. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
212. Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
213. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
214. Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard
215. Sandman by J. Robert Janes
216. The Sea by John Banville
217. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
218. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
219. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
220. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
221. Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
222. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
223. Shogun by James Clavell
224. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
225. Silas Marner by George Eliot
226. Sleep Room by F.R.Tallis
227. Snobs by Julian Fellowes
228. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
229. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
230. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
231. Sovereign by C.J. Sansom
232. Sphere by Michael Crichton
233. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
234. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
235. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
236. The Stranger by Albert Camus
237. Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
238. The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
239. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
240. Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
241. Stonekiller by J. Robert Janes
242. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
243. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
244. The Sun Is God by Adrian McKinty
245. Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
246. Supermarket by Bobby Hall
247. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
248. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
249. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
250. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
251. Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
252. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
253. There There by Tommy Orange
254. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
255. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
256. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
257. The Things We Don’t Do by Andres Neuman
258. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
259. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
260. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
261. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
262. Tinkers by Paul Harding
263. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
264. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
265. The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
266. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
267. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
268. Underworld by Don DeLillo
269. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
270. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
271. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
272. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
273. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
284. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
285. Wool by Hugh Howey
286. World Without End by Ken Follett
287. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
288. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
289. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
290. Zero K by Don DeLillo