Things I would like to re-read if I ever get the time/own them/unpack my boxes of books (in no particular order):

• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
• Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
• A Series of Unfortunate Events 1-13 by Lemony Snicket
• The Parasol Protectorate 1-4 by Gail Carriger
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1-5 by Douglas Adams
• Emily 1-3 by L.M. Montgomery
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
• War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
• The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• The Lives of the Mayfair Witches (The Witching Hour, Lasher and Taltos) by Anne Rice
• The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
• The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• EVERY book by Roald Dahl
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
• The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
• Still Life by Richard Stubbs
• The Yellow Peril from Sin City by Hung Le
• The 39 Steps by John Buchan
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson
• The Melling Sisters series by Robin Klein
• Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
• The Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Monster Love by Carol Topolski
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• EVERY novel by Jane Austen

At the request of annieletsnotwait, here is my ‘I want to read this!’ list. For the sake of clarity, I keep lists on my iPhone, split into sections so that I have a chance of choosing something to match my mood/interest at the time of purchase.

For things I’ve already read, I suggest you click here!

Currently sitting on my bedside table:

- Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger and Others by William Cane

- Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About by Mil Millington

- Mortal Remains by Kathy Reichs

- Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange

Novels:

- Stephen Fry’s Oscar Wilde’s Stories For All Ages

- Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

- Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl

- The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl

- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

- The Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz

- The Shakespeare Curse by J.L. Carrell

- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

- How I Live Now by Meg Rossoff

- The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James

- The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James

- White Teeth by Zadie Smith

- Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

- We Are All Made Of Glue by Marina Lewycka

- Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker

- The Beautiful & Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

- Room by Emma Donoghue

- Anthropology of An American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann

- Lost In A Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

- Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr

- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

- Gaudy Night and Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers

- The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

- The Collector and The Magus by John Fowles

- Neuromancer by William Gibson

- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

- Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron

- The Scar by China Mieville

- Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates and Half-Asleep In Frog Pyjamas by Tom Robbins

- Lovesong by Alex Miller

- The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes

- Gallows View by Peter Robinson

- Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich

- Pride & Promiscuity by Arielle Eckstut

Non-fiction/reference:

- NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms

- Expletive Deleted: A Good Look At Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb

- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.M. Fowler

- Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

- Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! by Richard Feynman

- Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman

- Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

- The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan A Edlow

- Widow Clicquot: The Story Of A Champagne Empire And The Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar Mazzeo and Tilar J. Mazzeo

- The Arsenic Century by James C Whorton

- Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist by Rod Englert with Kathy Passero

- Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by John Curran

- An Education by Lynn Barber

- I Used To Know That: English by Patrick Scrivenor

- Every Patient Tells A Story: Medical Mysteries and The Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

- Everything Is Going To Be Great by Rachel Shukert

- The Diving Bell & The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

- Agatha Christie’s True Crime Inspirations by Mike Holgate

- So You Think You Know Jane Austen? by John Sutherland and Deirdre Le Faye

- Who’s Afraid Of Jane Austen? by Henry Hitchings

- Tea With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

- Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Unusual Niece by Joan Schenkar

- The Bookaholic’s Guide To Book Blogs by Rebecca Gillieson and Catheryn Kilgarrif

- The Literary Companion

- The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by Gross

- The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams

Cookbooks/food novels:

- Total Perfection by Heston Blumenthal

- Family Fare by Gordon Ramsay

- Bone In The Throat by Anthony Bourdain

- Gone Bamboo by Anthony Bourdain

- Comfort Food by Gary Mehigan

- Bourke St Bakery by Paul Allam & David McGuinness

- How To Cook The Perfect… by Marcus Wareing

- Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights by Sophie Dahl

- Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan

- Eat Me by Cookie Girl