My 'To Be Read List of Doom 2008'

[lapsus_0_calami]

Here are all the books on my bookshelf which I haven't read yet, I have every intention of reading as many as possible. 
In 2007 I managed a pathetic twenty five, this year, I must do better!

Any new books I buy, borrow, get from the library or steal this year will be added to the list in red (and that includes Xmas presents)

1. London, The Biography - Peter Ackroyd
2. Paula - Isabel Allende
3. Surfacing - Margaret Attwood
4. The Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
6. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
7. Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
8. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Berniers
9. Faster, They’re Gaining - Peter Biddlecombe
10. Al Dente - William Black
11. No Reservations - Anthony Bourdain
12. Without a City Wall - Melvyn Bragg
13. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
14. Beer and Bagels for Breakfast - John Carson
15. Jaguars Ripped my Flesh - Tim Cayhill
16. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
17. Fortune Hotel - Sarah Champion
18. The Last Burden - Upamanyu Chaterjee
19. The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby
20. Leaven of Malice - Robertson Davies (Part of Salterton Trilogy)
21. A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (Part of Salterton Trilogy)
22. White Noise - Dan DeLillo
23. Slow Coast Home - Josie Dew
24. Middlemarch - George Elliot
25. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch - Anne Enright
26. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
27. Appetite for Life - Noel Riley Fitch (Autobiography of Julia Child)
28. A Passage to India - EM Forster
29. Making History by Stephen Fry
30. The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
31. Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway
32. The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville
33. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
34. The Speckled People - Hugo Hamilton
    
35. Pompeii - Robert Harris
36. Manchester England - Dave Haslam
37. Flight Path of the Emperor - Steven Heighton
38. Bread Alone - Judi Hendricks
39. The History of Danish Dreams - Peter Hoeg
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
41. Fashion-Babylon-Imogen-Edwards-Jones
42. Ulysses by James Joyce
43. The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglass Kennedy
44. Out - Natsuo Kirino
45. English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
46. The Fundamentals of Play - Caitlin Macy
47. Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
48. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
49. Travels of a Brussels Scout - Nick Middleton
50. The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCutchen
51. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
52. The Loving Spirit - Daphne du Maurier
53. The Three Incestuous Sisters - Audrey Niffenegger
54. A Proper Holiday - Ann Oakley
55. The Famished Road - Ben Okri
56. My Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
57. The Eliza Stories - Barry Pain
58. Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake
59. The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
60. Second Skin - Wendy Perriam
61. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
62. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Rabelais
63. The Black Book - Ian Rankin
64. Garlic and Sapphires - Ruth Reichl
65. Shame - Salman Rushdie
66. Revelation - C J Sansom
67. Soverign - C J Sansom
68. I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith by Linda Smith and Warren Lakin
69. The Bastille Falls - Simon Schama
70. The Emigrants - W G Sebald
71. Wild Animus - Rich Shapero
72. Grantchester Grind - Tom Sharpe
73. From Here to Obscurity by Yoel Sheridan
74. Eating for England - Nigel Slater
75. Misadventures - Sylvia Smith
76. Martha and Hanwell - Zadie Smith
77. August 1914 - Solzhenitsyn
78. The Map of Love - Adaf Soueif
79. The Mandelbaum Gate - Muriel Spark
80. Elizabeth - David Starkey
81. The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
82. Elegance - Kathleen Tessaro
83. Nineteen Twenty One - Adam Thorpe
84. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
85. After Rain - William Trevor
86. Two Lives - William Trevor
87. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa
88. The Coronation of Haile Salassie - Evelyn Waugh
89. Worst Fears by Fay Weldon
90. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
91. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
92. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
93. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Wolfe
94. Going Native - Stephen Wright
95. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak