The piles of books 'to be read' arranged around my room have been out of control for some time. Here are all the ones (fiction only) I've been able to round up, vaguely in the order that I think I might eventually read them:
• The Magus - John Fowles
• Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
• A First Omnibus - Ivy Compton-Burnett
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• Real People - Alison Lurie
• Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai
• Tales of the Jazz Age - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Birthday Stories selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami
• The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
• The Waves - Virginia Woolf
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• The Bark Tree - Raymond Queneau
• Strait is the Gate - André Gide
Also, three that I'm really keen to read but haven't yet accumulated:
• What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
• The Accidental - Ali Smith
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Also-also, now that he's been installed as the bookmakers' favourite for the Booker after the announcement of the long list last week and all, something by David Mitchell (turns out that I had heard of one of his books before after all - Cloud Atlas); read some bits and pieces of two of his earlier novels while killing time on Brunswick St before brunch this morning, and they looked alright.
Plus, The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard, which is next up for the ACs' book club (happily, the only one on this round's short list that I really wanted to do).
And, as of last weekend, am the proud owner of the Oxford complete works of Shakespeare...but I won't be reading that one cover to cover any time soon!
