TBR list

(A list of things I’d like to read; a list undoubtedly bound to remain incomplete.)

Since 2018, I’ve written lists of things I’d like to read at the beginning of each year. They provide a little structure for my reading over the following days, or at least function as a bit of a safeguard against choice paralysis.

I’ve sometimes kept to them (and sometimes haven’t) but I figured it’d be nice to have everything I’ve listed in one place, so I can keep track of what’s not yet been read (or reread).

This will be added to every time I make one of those lists. Only the books on the list will go on here: others I read through the year are extras. Think of this as an eternal version of one of those Planning The Pages posts, only alphabetical.

(OK I lied: some other books make it on here. Is there a logic behind how I choose them? MAYBE!)

Once I’ve read the book it leaves this list. Because a TO BE READ book is not the same as a HAS BEEN READ book (obviously) – you can find a listing of the books that’ve been read on the HBR list.

To picture my library, add mess. (And maybe some sneaky cat urine.)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W X Y Z …

A

  • Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen
  • Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen Honkyoku
  • Peter Ackroyd: Foundation
  • Peter Ackroyd: Tudors
  • Peter Ackroyd: Rebellion
  • Peter Ackroyd: Revolution
  • Peter Ackroyd: Dominion
  • Peter Ackroyd: Innovation
  • Peter Ackroyd: Queer City
  • Peter Ackroyd: Mr Cadmus
  • Naja Marie Aidt: Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso
  • Louis Armand: The Combinations
  • Robert Arthur: You Will Die
  • Thea Astley: A Kindness Cup
  • Dan Aulier: Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks
  • Michael Axworthy: Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic

B

  • Phil Baker (ed.): Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer
  • J.G. Ballard: The Complete Short Stories
  • Elizabeth L. Banks: Adventures of an American Girl in Victorian London
  • W.N.P. Barbellion: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
  • Richard Barnett: The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul art of Dentistry
  • Richard Barnett: The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
  • Richard Barnett: Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Surgery
  • Svetislav Basara: The Cyclist Conspiracy
  • Giambattista Basile: The Tale of Tales
  • Mary Beard: SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome
  • David Bellos: Georges Perec
  • Catherine Belton: Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
  • Alfred Rosling Bennett: London and Londoners in the 1850s and 1860s
  • Guðbergur Bergsson: Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller
  • Laurent Binet: HhHh
  • Carmel Bird: Mandala Trilogy
  • Christopher Yohmei Blasdel: The Shakuhachi: A Manual for Learning
  • William Blake: The Complete Poems
  • Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
  • T. C. Boyle: Water Music (reread)
  • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: Physiology of Taste
  • Michael Brodsky: Invidicum
  • Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book
  • Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (reread)
  • A.S. Byatt: Possession (reread)

C

  • Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch
  • Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
  • Roberto Calasso: Ka
  • Roberto Calasso: Literature and the Gods
  • Roberto Calasso: K.
  • Roberto Calasso: Tiepolo Pink
  • Barnabas Calder: Raw Concrete: the Beauty of Brutalism
  • Mena Calthorpe: The Dyehouse
  • Lúcio Cardoso: Chronicle of the Murdered House
  • Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (reread)
  • Peter Carey: Illywhacker (reread)
  • Peter Carey: The Tax Inspector (reread)
  • Peter Carey: Parrot and Oliver in America
  • Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
  • Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Peter Carey: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
  • John le Carré: Call for the Dead
  • Brian Catling: The Vorrh
  • Brian Catling: The Erstwhile
  • Brian Catling: The Cloven
  • Ben Chasny: The Hexadic System
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (reread)
  • Agatha Christie: all of them, eventually
  • Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • James Clavell: Noble House
  • James Clavell: King Rat
  • James Clavell: Whirlwind
  • James Clavell: Gai-Jin
  • Arthur Conan-Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
  • Robert Coover: The Public Burning
  • James S.A. Corey: Nemesis Games
  • James S.A. Corey: Babylon’s Ashes
  • James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising
  • James S.A. Corey: Tiamat’s Wrath
  • James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Falls
  • Bernard Cornwell: The Winter King
  • Bernard Cornwell: The Enemy of God
  • Bernard Cornwell: Excalibur
  • Thomas P. Cullinan: The Beguiled
  • Rachel Cusk: Outline series

D

  • Mark Z. Danielewski: Tom’s Crossing
  • Norman Davies: Vanishing Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
  • Anthony Decurtis: Lou Reed: A Life
  • Len Deighton: Game, Set & Match
  • Len Deighton: Hook, Line & Sinker
  • Len Deighton: Faith, Hope & Charity
  • Don Delillo: White Noise
  • Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (reread)
  • Mark de Silva: The Logos
  • Tara A. Devlin: assorted works
  • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (reread)
  • Stephen Dixon: Frog
  • Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Alan Duff: Once Were Warriors
  • Alan Duff: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

E

  • Umberto Eco: On Beauty
  • Umberto Eco: On Ugliness
  • Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum (reread)
  • George Elson: The Last of the Climbing Boys
  • Mathias Enard: The Street of Thieves
  • Shūsaku Endō: Silence
  • Shūsaku Endō: Wonderful Fool
  • Peter Esterhazy: Celestial Harmonies
  • Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

F

  • Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
  • Michel Faber: Under the Skin
  • Michel Faber: The Book of Strange New Things
  • Paul la Farge: Haussmann, or the Distinction
  • Raymond E. Feist: Magician
  • Raymond E. Feist: Silverthorn
  • Raymond E. Feist: A Darkness at Sethanon
  • Jens Malte Fischer: Gustav Mahler
  • Mark Fisher: The Weird and the Eerie
  • Robert Fisk: The Great War for Civilization
  • Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth
  • Ken Follett: World Without End
  • Ken Follett: A Column of Fire
  • Ken Follett: The Evening and the Morning
  • Leon Forrest: Divine Days
  • Mary Fortune (ed.): Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction
  • Jon Fosse: Septology
  • John Fowles: The Magus (reread)
  • Rodrigo Fresán: The Bottom of the Sky
  • Rodrigo Fresán: The Dreamed Part
  • Rodrigo Fresán: The Invented Part
  • Rodrigo Fresán: The Remembered Part
  • Bob Frissell: You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience
  • Bob Frissell: Something in This Book is True…
  • Joseph Furphy: Such is Life

G

  • William Gaddis: JR
  • William H. Gass: Omensetter’s Luck
  • William H. Gass: The Tunnel
  • Ričardas Gavelis: Vilnius Poker
  • Catie Gilchrist: Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
  • James Gleick: Chaos: Making a New Science (reread)
  • Tariq Goddard: High John the Conqueror
  • E.H. Gombrich: The Story of Art
  • Luis Goytisolo: Antagony
  • Robert Graves: The Claudius Novels
  • James Greenwood: The Seven Curses of London
  • James Greenwood: The Wilds of London
  • Kate Grenville: Lilian’s Story
  • Kate Grenville: Dark Places
  • Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Simplicius Simplicissimus
  • Lev Grossman: The Magicians
  • Lev Grossman: The Magician King
  • Lev Grossman: The Magician’s Land
  • Vasily Grossman: Life and Fate
  • Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad
  • Luo Guanzhong: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

H

  • Hubert Haddad: Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters
  • Garth Risk Hallberg: City on Fire
  • Wilson Harris: The Guyana Quartet
  • M. John Harrison: Light
  • M. John Harrison: Nova Swing
  • M. John Harrison: Empty Space
  • M. John Harrison: The Pastel City
  • M. John Harrison: A Storm of Wings
  • M. John Harrison: In Zirconium
  • M. John Harrison: Zirconium Nights
  • M. John Harrison: The Sunken Land Begins to Rise
  • Elizabeth Harrower: The Watch Tower (reread)
  • Rick Harsch: The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas
  • Delisle Hay: The Doom of the Great City
  • John Hersey: Hiroshima
  • Werner Herzog: Conquest of the Useless
  • Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (reread)
  • Keigo Higashino: The Devotion of Suspect X
  • Keigo Higashino: Salvation of a Saint
  • Keigo Higashino: A Midsummer’s Equation
  • Keigo Higashino: Silent Parade
  • Keigo Higashino: Malice
  • Keigo Higashino: Journey Under the Midnight Sun
  • Keigo Higashino:  Newcomer
  • William Hjörtsberg: Angel’s Inferno
  • Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore (reread)
  • Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
  • Ronald Hutton: The Witch
  • Christopher S. Hyatt: Undoing Yourself With Energised Meditation and Other Devices

I

  • Daniel M. Ingram: Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
  • David Ireland: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
  • David Ireland: The Chantic Bird
  • David Ireland: A Woman of the Future
  • David Ireland: The Glass Canoe

J

  • Lee Jackson (ed.): Daily Life in Victorian London: an Extraordinary Anthology
  • Lee Jackson: The Diary of a Murderer
  • Lee Jackson: Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
  • Daniel James: The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
  • Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Elfriede Jelinek: The Children of the Dead
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Broken Kingdoms
  • N. K. Jemisin: The Kingdom of Gods
  • N. K. Jemisin: the Awakened Kingdom
  • N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became
  • Carsten Jensen: We, The Drowned
  • Uwe Johnson: Anniversaries
  • S.T. Joshi: I Am Providence
  • James Joyce: Finnegans Wake

K

  • Otohiko Kaga: Marshland
  • Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen
  • Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole
  • Yasunari Kawabata: The Izu Dancer
  • Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 
  • David Keenan: Monument Maker
  • Hannah Kent: The Good People
  • Gerald Kersh: Clock Without Hands
  • Gerald Kersh: Fowler’s End
  • Paul Kingsnorth: The Wake
  • Paul Kingsnorth: Beast
  • Paul Kingsnorth: Alexandria
  • Karl Ove Knausgård: The Morning Star series
  • Karl Ove Knausgård: My Struggle
  • Masayuki Koga: Shakuhachi: Fundamental Technique Guidance
  • Masayuki Koga: Shakuhachi: Advanced Techniques & History
  • László Krasznahorkai: Satantango
  • László Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance
  • László Krasznahorkai: War & War
  • László Krasznahorkai: Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens
  • László Krasznahorkai: Seiobo There Below
  • László Krasznahorkai: Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
  • James Howard Kunstler: The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
  • John Kypros: Your Shakuhachi Journey

L

  • Carlos Labbé: Loquela
  • Carlos Labbé: Navidad & Matanza
  • Carlos Labbé: Spiritual Choreographies
  • William Leavitt: A Modern Method for Guitar
  • Michael Lentz: Schattenfroh
  • Jill Lepore: If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
  • Adam Levin: Bubblegum
  • Cixin Liu: Ball Lightning
  • Cixin Liu: Hold Up the Sky
  • Cixin Liu: The Supernova Era
  • Cixin Liu: The Wandering Earth
  • Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings
  • Ken Liu: The Wall of Storms
  • Ken Liu: The Veiled Throne
  • Ken Liu: Invisible Planets
  • Ken Liu: Broken Stars
  • Amanda Lohrey: The Labyrinth
  • Elias Lönnrot: Kalevala
  • H.P. Lovecraft: assorted omnibus editions (reread)
  • Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
  • Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater
  • Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora
  • Scott Lynch: Red Seas Under Red Skies
  • Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves

M

  • Malcolm Lyons (tr.): The Arabian Nights (three volumes)
  • Eric McCormack: Inspecting the Vaults (reread)
  • Eric McCormack: The Mysterium (reread)
  • Eric McCormack: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (reread)
  • Eric McCormack: The Dutch Wife (reread)
  • Eric McCormack: Cloud (reread)
  • Michael McDowell: Blackwater
  • Joseph McElroy: Ancient History
  • Joseph McElroy: Lookout Cartridge
  • Joseph McElroy: Women and Men
  • Patrick McGilligan: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Lights
  • Ian McGuire: The North Water
  • Matthew McIntosh: TheMystery.doc
  • Meredith McKinney (ed): Travels With a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from The Manyōshū to Bashō
  • Kenneth Mackenzie: The Refuge
  • Naguib Mahfouz: The Cairo Trilogy
  • Norman Mailer: Ancient Evenings (reread)
  • Norman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song
  • Norman Mailer: Oswald’s Tale
  • Norman Mailer: Tough Guys Don’t Dance
  • Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost
  • Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d’Arthur
  • Nick Mamatas: I Am Providence
  • John Mandeville: The Book of Marvels
  • George Mann: The Affinity Bridge
  • George Mann: The Osiris Ritual
  • George Mann: The Immorality Engine
  • George Mann: The Executioner’s Heart
  • George Mann: The Revenant Express
  • George Mann: The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes
  • George Mann: The Albion Initiative
  • George Mann: Ghosts of Manhattan
  • George Mann: Ghosts of War
  • George Mann: Ghosts of Karnak
  • George Mann: Ghosts of Empire
  • Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
  • Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
  • Hilary Mantel: The Mirror & the Light
  • David Marr: Patrick White: A Life
  • Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
  • Henry Mayhew: Labour and the Poor Volumes I-IV: The Metropolitan Districts
  • Herman Melville: Pierre, or The Ambiguities
  • Sara Mesa: Four by Four
  • Gustav Meyrink: The Golem (reread)
  • Gustav Meyrink: The Angel of the West Window (reread)
  • Gustav Meyrink: The Green Face (reread)
  • Gustav Meyrink: The White Dominican
  • Gustav Meyrink: Walpurgisnacht (reread)
  • Henry Miller: Sexus
  • Henry Miller: Plexus
  • Henry Miller: Nexus
  • Yukio Mishima: The Sea of Fertility (reread)
  • Minae Mizamura: A True Novel
  • Patrick Modiano: Suspended Sentences
  • Patrick Modiano: Missing Person
  • Patrick Modiano: After the Circus
  • Alan Moore: Promethea
  • Edmund Morris: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Edmund Morris: Theodore Rex
  • Edmund Morris: Colonel Roosevelt
  • Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  • A.R. Moxon: The Revisionaries
  • Patrick Mullins: Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon
  • Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (reread)
  • Shikibu Murasaki: Tale of the Genji
  • Gerald Murnane: A Million Windows
  • Gerald Murnane: A Lifetime on Clouds
  • Gerald Murnane: A Season on Earth
  • Gerald Murnane: The Plains (reread)

N

  • Shi Nai’an: Outlaws of the Marsh
  • Fuminori Nakamura: Last Winter We Parted
  • Fuminori Nakamura: The Kingdom
  • Fuminori Nakamura: The Gun
  • Fuminori Nakamura: Evil and the Mask
  • Fuminori Nakamura: Cult X
  • Arthur Nersesian: The Five Books of (Robert) Moses
  • Louis Nowra: Sydney – A Biography

O

  • Ryan O’Connor: The Voids
  • Bragi Ólafsson: The Pets
  • Bragi Ólafsson: The Ambassador
  • Bragi Ólafsson: Narrator

P

  • Charles Palliser: The Quincunx (reread)
  • Miquel de Palol: The Garden of Seven Twilights
  • Adam Parfrey: Apocalypse Culture
  • I.J. Parker: Akidata series
  • Bruce Pascoe: Dark Emu
  • David Peace: Nineteen Seventy-Four
  • David Peace: Nineteen Seventy-Seven
  • David Peace: Nineteen Eighty
  • David Peace: Nineteen Eighty-Three
  • David Peace: Tokyo Year Zero
  • David Peace: Occupied City
  • David Peace: Tokyo Redux
  • Georges Perec: Life: A User’s Manual (reread)
  • Georges Perec: A Void (reread)
  • Georges Perec: Portrait of a Man
  • Sarah Perry: Melmoth
  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (reread)
  • Ezra Pound: The Cantos
  • Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time series
  • John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent
  • John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance
  • John Cowper Powys: Weymouth Sounds
  • John Cowper Powys: Maiden Castle
  • Michael Pronko: Tokyo Zangyo
  • Michael Pronko: Tokyo Traffic
  • Michael Pronko: The Moving Blade
  • Michael Pronko: The Last Trade
  • Michael Pronko: Azabu Getaway
  • Michael Pronko: Shitimachi Scam
  • Roger Pulvers: Star Sand
  • Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day
  • Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow (reread)
  • Thomas Pynchon: V

Q

  • qntm: There is No Antimemetics Division
  • Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (reread)
  • Daniel Quinn: Ishmael
  • Seabury Quinn: The Horror on the Links
  • Seabury Quinn: The Devil’s Rosary
  • Seabury Quinn: The Dark Angel
  • Seabury Quinn: A Rival from the Grave
  • Seabury Quinn: Black Moon

R

  • Rein Raud: The Brother
  • Derek Raymond: He Died with His Eyes Open
  • Derek Raymond: The Devil’s Home on Leave
  • Derek Raymond: How the Dead Live
  • Derek Raymond: I Was Dora Suarez
  • Derek Raymond: Dead Man Upright
  • Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
  • Luke Rhinehart: Adventures of Wim
  • Luke Rhinehart: The Search for the Dice Man
  • William Pitt Ridge: Mord Em’ly
  • Peter Robb: M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio (reread)
  • Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès: Island of Point Nemo
  • Mercè Rodoreda: Death in Spring
  • Mercè Rodoreda: Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda
  • Sax Rohmer: Fu-Manchu compendia
  • Clarence Rook: The Hooligan Nights
  • Alex Ross: Wagnerism
  • Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
  • Alex Ross: Listen to This
  • Milen Ruskov: Thrown into Nature

S

  • Guillermo Saccomanno: Gesell Dome
  • Juan José Saer: La Grande
  • Juan José Saer: Scars
  • Juan José Saer: The Clouds
  • Juan José Saer: The One Before
  • Juan José Saer: The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
  • Louis Sahagun: Master of the Mysteries: New Revelations on the Life of Manly Palmer Hall
  • Augustus Sala: Twice Round the Clock
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
  • Ha Seong-nan: Bluebeard’s Wife
  • Ha Seong-nan: Flowers of Mold
  • Anna Sherman: The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
  • Tamara Shopsin: Laserwriter II
  • Mark de Silva; The Logos
  • Dan Simmons: The Song of Kali
  • Jeffrey Smart: Not Quite Straight: A Memoir
  • Charles Many Smith: Curiosities of London Life
  • Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene
  • Bob Spitz: Led Zeppelin
  • Donald Spoto: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
  • Albena Stambolova: Everything Happens As It Does
  • Neal Stephenson: The Baroque Cycle
  • Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • Randolph Stow: The Girl Green as Elderflower
  • Randolph Stow: Visitants
  • Randolph Stow: To the Islands
  • Randolph Stow: Tourmaline
  • Snorri Sturluson: Prose Edda
  • Snorri Sturluson: Heimskringla or The Lives of the Norse Kings
  • Bae Suah: A Greater Music
  • Bae Suah: North Station
  • Bae Suah: Nowhere to be Found
  • Eugène Sue: The Mysteries of Paris
  • Eugène Sue: The Wandering Jew
  • Miklós Szentkuthy: Prae Vol. I
  • Miklós Szentkuthy: Prae Vol. II
  • John Szwed: Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra

T

  • Philip Terry (ed.): The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
  • Alice Thompson: The Book Collector
  • Alice Thompson: The Falconer
  • Alice Thompson: The Existential Detective
  • Alice Thompson: Justine
  • Alice Thompson: Pharos
  • Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
  • Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
  • François Truffaut: Hitchcock/Truffaut
  • Christos Tsiolkas: Damascus
  • Christos Tsiolkas: The Jesus Man (reread)
  • Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap (reread)
  • Christos Tsiolkas: Dead Europe
  • Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda
  • Christos Tsiolkas: Loaded
  • Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror
  • Stuart Turton: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  • Stuart Turton: The Devil and the Dark Water
  • Christopher Tyerman: How to Plan a Crusade

U

  • Suggest something.

V

  • Erik Valeur: Seventh Child
  • Valmiki: Rāmāyana
  • Virgil: Aeneid (reread)
  • William T. Vollmann: Europe Central
  • William T. Vollmann: The Rainbow Stories
  • Antoine Volodine: Bardo or Not Bardo
  • Antoine Volodine: Radiant Terminus
  • Vyasa: Mahābhārata

W

  • Bruce Wagner: Dead Stars
  • Patrick White: Voss (reread)
  • Patrick White: Flaws in the Glass
  • Patrick White: The Aunt’s Story
  • Patrick White: The Tree of Man (reread)
  • Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot
  • Patrick White: The Vivisector
  • Patrick White: The Eye of the Storm
  • Patrick White: A Fringe of Leaves
  • Patrick White: The Twyborn Affair
  • Patrick White: The Cockatoos
  • Aliya Whiteley: The Loosening Skin
  • Aliya Whiteley: Skein
  • Aliya Whiteley: Greensmith
  • Edward Whittemore: The Jerusalem Quartet
  • Thomas Williams: Whipple’s Castle
  • Ashley Wilson: Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
  • Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun (reread)
  • Gene Wolfe: The Urth of the New Sun
  • Gene Wolfe: The Book of the Long Sun
  • Gene Wolfe: The Book of the Short Sun
  • Gene Wolfe: The Sorcerer’s House
  • Alexis Wright: Carpentaria
  • Alexis Wright: Praiseworthy
  • Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 
  • Wu Cheng’en: Journey to the West

X

  • Can Xue: Vertical Motion
  • Cao Xueqin: Dream of the Red Chamber

Y

  • Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
  • Frances Yates: The Art of Memory (reread)
  • Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (reread)
  • Frances Yates: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (reread)
  • Frances Yates: The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (reread)
  • John Yates: The Mind Illuminated
  • Hideo Yokoyama: Six Four
  • Hideo Yokoyama: Seventeen
  • Hideo Yokoyama: Prefecture D
  • Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: Musashi
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: Taiko
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: Uesugi Kenshin
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: Taira no Masakado
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: Kuroda Josui
  • Eiji Yoshikawa: The New Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Ronin

Z

  • Oksana Zabuzhka: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

And not forgetting…

  • Religious texts: the Bible, the Qur’an and the Talmud
  • The Fantasy Masterworks and Sci-Fi Masterworks series of books
  • 33-1/3 books
  • A load of Penguin Classics I’ve yet to crack
  • Whatever I have bought on my Kindle
  • Music theory and practice texts
  • Mythological works
  • Pulp and airport novels
  • Meditation texts: both general and zen
  • Anthologies: both Norton and of Japanese literature
  • Ancient history texts
  • Science texts
  • Philosophical/theoretical works
  • Occult texts, both historical and practical
  • Tarot texts
  • Art books: Taschen and Thames & Hudson, mostly

As you can see, there’s more than enough to keep me going until I shuffle off. Of course, I ignore this and keep buying more books because the perfect one is just around the corner.