It occurred to me today that, fuck, I have a lot of books. (The above is a photograph of all the notebooks I own that I have not yet written in.)

I tried to work out how many books I own that I have not yet read, except for a chapter or a flickthrough at random. This is what happened:







So now I'm making a list. Or rather, remaking a list. Properly, this time, with the intent to deal with the items on it. So, without further ado:

LIBRARY/BORROWED THINGS TO READ:

Adams, D - Last Chance to See
Bolt, R — A Man for All Seasons
Bryson, B — A Brief History of Nearly Everything
Carey, J — Kushiel's Mercy

OWNED THINGS TO READ:

Aesop — The Complete Fables*
Barker, C — Mister B. Gone
Bennett, D & Jones, J — Shadow Magic
Bear, E — New Amsterdam
Brennan, S R — The Demon's Lexicon
Brite, P Z — Exquisite Corpse
Brite, P Z — Drawing Blood
Butcher, J — Storm Front
Capote, T — In Cold Blood
Card, O S — Ender's Shadow
Card, O S — Enchantment
Carey, M — Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway
Carey, M — Lucifer: Children and Monsters
Clarke, S — Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Crow, K — Scarlet and the White Wolf
Dante — The Divine Comedy I: Inferno
Davidson — A Dictionary of Angels
Doctorow, E L — The March
Doyle, A C — Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, vol. 1
Doyle, A C — Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, vol. 2
Dumas, A — The Count of Monte Christo
Eco, U — The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Eugenides, J - Middlesex
Fallon, J — The Immortal Prince
Fallon, J — The Gods of Amyrantha
Foucault, M — The History of Sexuality, vol. 1
Gaiman, N — Fragile Things
Glassman — Approaches to Psychology
Hobb, R — The Dragon Keeper
Hoeg, P — Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Homer — The Iliad
Homer — The Odyssey
Kerouac, J — On the Road
Leroi, A. M. — Mutants
Lukyanenko, S. — The Night Watch
Jordan, R — The Eye of the World
Kikuchi, H — Vampire Hunter D*
Kikuchi, H — Raiser of Gales
Kikuchi, H — Demon Deathchase
King, S — The Gunslinger*
King, S — The Drawing of the Three*
King, S — The Waste Lands*
King, S — Wizard and Glass
King, S — Wolves of the Calla
King, S — Song of Susannah
King, S — The Dark Tower
Kostova, E — The Historian
Kushner, E — The Privilege of the Sword
Kushner, E — Thomas the Rhymer
Lanagan, M — Tender Morsels
Lanagan, M — Red Spikes
Lanagan, M — Treasure Hunters of Quentaris
Lessing, D — The Grandmothers
Mack & Mack — A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits
Mackintosh-Smith, T — Travels with a Tangerine
Marquez, G G — One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, G G — Love In the Time of Cholera
McAuley, P J — Fairyland
Melbourne University Press — Nobel Lectures from the Literature Laureates, 1986–2005
Melville, H — Moby-Dick
Mieville, C — Looking for Jake, and Other Stories
Murakami, H — The Elephant Vanishes
Partidge, E — Usage and Abusage
Peake, M — Titus Groan*
Peake, M — Gormenghast
Peake, M — Titus Alone
Peterfreund, D — Rampant
Powers, A — Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
Pratchett, T — Guards! Guards!*
Pratchett, T — Men at Arms*
Pratchett, T — Thud!*
Roy, A — The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Tanizaki — Seven Japanese Tales
Thompson, C — Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All
Torday, P — Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Voltaire — Candide, or Optimism
Williams, T — Shadowmarch
Winton, T — Cloudstreet
Winton, T — The Turning
Wynne Jones, D — The Magicians of Caprona
Wynne Jones, D — Witch Week
Wynne Jones, D — The Dark Lord of Derkholme

Only 66! I'm doing quite well. XD (Or I have missed a box somewhere.) I missed a few. XD Also, have marked rereads with asterisks.

READ: 5/84