Below is a list of 91 books currently on my TBR bookcase. If any of black books are still on my TBR bookcase come January 1, 2020, I’m giving them away. This list was updated at the end of 2016 with the titles listed in blue. I was going to go for 100 books total, but my little bookcase ran out of room. These books have an additional year, until January 1, 2021. If they are still there on that day they all go to the library book sale. This list was updated a second time in December of 2017. Books added at that time are listed in green and have an additional two years, util January 1, 2022 before they go to the Friends of the Lbrary book sale..
That leaves just under three years for me to read them.
I have lots of other books in my TBR bookcase, around 300. I really do need to start reading them.
- Abish, Walter; How German Is It?
- Ackerley, J.R.; My Father and Myself
- Ackroyd, Peter; The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
- Aldis, Brian: Non-Stop
- Aleichem Sholem: Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance
- Anderson, Poul; The Broken Sword
- Arenas, Reinaldo: Before Night Falls
- Ballard, J.G.; The Drowned World
- Bester, Alfred; The Stars my Destination
- Bester, Alfred and Zelazny, Roger; Psycho Shop
- Blish, James; Cities in Flight
- Blackwood, Caroline; Corrigan
- Brooks, Terry; The Sword of Shannara
- Bryant, Dorothy; Confessions of Madame Psyche
- Calvino, Italo: The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
- Camilleri, Andrea; The Terra-Cotta Dog
- Clark, Arthur C.: The Fountains of Paradise
- Claudel, Philippe; Brodeck
- Crowley, John; The Deep
- Dante; Inferno
- de Cervantes, Miguel; The Dialogue of the Dogs
- de Giovanni, Maurizio: Blood Curse
- de Motherlant, Henry; Chaos and Night
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor; The Eternal Husband
- Duffy, Bruce: The World as I Found It
- Endo, Shusaku: When I Whistle
- Ferey, Caryl; Zulu
- Ferri, Linda; Cecili
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: May Day
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Tender is the Night
- Franklin, Miles; The End of My Career
- Gamboa, Santiago; Necropolis
- Gardam, Jane: Old Filth
- Georget, Philippe; Summertime and All the Cats Are Bored
- Gibbons, Stella: Starlight
- Gille, Elisabeth; The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter
- Grimsley, Jim; Boulevard
- Hensher, Philip; The Northern Clemency
- Horowitz, Tony: A Voyage Long and Strange
- Aleichem Sholem: Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance
- Hughes, Dorothy: The Expendable Man
- Hughes, Richard; The Fox in the Attic
- Hunt, Rebecca; Everland
- Izzo, Jean-Claude; Total Chaos
- Jerusalmy, Raphael; The Brotherhood of Book Hunters
- Jewett, Sarah Orne; The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Johnson, Samuel; Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
- Kaaberbol, Lene and Friis, Agnete: The Boy in the Suite Case
- Kastner, Eich; Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
- Kemal, Yashar; They Burn the Thistles
- Kennedy, Raymond; Ride a Cockhorse
- Kingsolver, Barbara; The Poisonwood Bible
- Kurkov, Andrey; Penguin Lost
- Laye, Camara: The Radiance of the King
- Least Heat-Moon, William; Blue Highways
- Lepucki, Edan; California
- Luiselli, Valeria: The Story of My Teeth
- Martin, George R.R.; Dying of the Light
- Mas’udi; From The Meadows of Gold
- McGuane, Thomas: Keep the Change
- Miaojin, Qiu; Last Words from Montmarte
- Moorcock, Michael; Gloriana or, The Unfulfill’d Queen
- Ngugi, Mukoma Wa; Nairobi Heat
- Paz, Octavio; The Labyrinth of Solitude
- Peck, Dale; Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye
- Piperno, Alessandro; Persecution: The Friendly Fire of Memories
- Poe, Edgar Allan; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- Pushkin, Alexander; Tales of Belkin
- Ramsey, Alice; Alice’s Drive
- Read, Anthony and Fisher, David: The Fall of Berlin
- Rokeach, Milton; The three Christs of Ypsiilanti
- Ryman, Geoff; Was
- Sabato, Ernesto; The Tunnel
- Sciascia, Leonardo; The Day of the Owl
- Serge, Victor; Conquered City
- Shepard, Lucius; Life During Wartime
- Sherez, Stav; A Dark Redemrption
- Simenon, Georges; The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin
- Simenon, Georges; Night at the Crossrroads
- Simenon, Georges; The Shadow Puppet
- Simenon, Georges; The Two-Penny Bar
- Stendhal: The Abbess of Castro
- Sutherland, John; A Little History of Literature
- Tepper, Sheri S.; The Gate to Women’s Country
- Thurman, Judith; Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
- Toibin, Colm; Brooklyn
- Turgenev, Ivan; First Love
- Vargas Llosa, Mario; The Feast of the Goat
- Villoro, Juan: The Reef
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, Borneo,, Celebes, Aru
- Watson, Larry: Montana 1948
- White, Patrick; The Hanging Garden
- Williams, John: Augustus
- Williams, John; Stoner
- Williamson, Jack; Darker Than You Think
- Wilson, Edmund; Memoirs of Hecate County
- Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.; Lion at Lamb House
- Yourcenar, Marguerite; Memoirs of Hadrian
- Zackheim, Michele; Broken Colorsdsf
May Contain Spoilers 
The problem about reading someone else’s TBR is that there is always stuff to be added to my own.
And, no, I have declined the double dog challenge. It made me feel very anxious. And in case a decline is disappointing – you could always do a further list of all the books on your shelves you HAVE read, and I might take some from there to add to my TBR also!
Good idea re: James has read AND recommends.
J
James,
I am so glad I tuned in to your list–the weight, the expanse, the heft. I’m not being sarcastic! I’m molding my Classics Club list and so I envy the thought and time that you put into this superb list, which I am checking out title by title, I want you to know.
Judith (Reader in the Wilderness)
Your comment made me smile. Since I didn’t make this list all at once, rather I added to it three or four book purchases at a time, it really wasn’t all that difficult to create. I do think it’s a pretty good reading list, if I say so myself. 😉
Just discovered your blog through Karen @ BookerTalk. Quite the TBR list! Many titles with which I am unfamiliar. Will peruse in more detail later! I loved The Elegance of the Hedgehog and regarding Poe’s Narrative, as I recall this is the only novel he published–thankfully! It was not an enjoyable read for me! 😀 The H.G.Wells title is new to me. Glad to know you’re here!