There are so many great books out there and I want to read most of them. My memory is not what it used to be (and let’s face it, it really wasn’t all that good to start with), so I am going to keep a list here of books that I want to read. This is a work in progress – I’ll keep adding new titles as they come to my attention and will delete books from the list once I have read them.

Thanks to Rebecca from Lost in Books for the Wish List idea. You can find Rebecca’s list here. If I add a book that I have heard about in another book blog, I will include a link in brackets at the end. If you have your own reading wish list, feel free to add a link in the comments section.

Numbers

• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne

A

• Adventures of Pinnochio – Carlo Collodi
• Age of Innocence, The – Edith Wharton
• Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
• Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
• And the Ladies of the Club – Helen Hoover Santmeyer
• Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
• Angels of Kokoda – David Mulligan
• An Imaginary Life – David Malouf
• Anna and the King of Siam – Margaret Landon
• Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
• Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
• Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

B

• Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
• Belong to Me – Marisa de los Santos (Books on the Brain)
• Best Short Stories, The – Guy de Maupassant (A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook)
• Boat, The – Nam Le
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Elias Canetti
• Breath – Tim Winton
• Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

C

• Canterbury Tales, The – Geoffrey Chaucer
• Captain Coreilli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
• Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
• Catcher in the Rye, The – J D Salinger
• Cellist of Sarajevo, The – Steven Galloway
• Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The – Thomas Keneally
• Christmas Carol, A – Charles Dickens
• Clockwork Orange, A – Anthony Burgess
• Connecticut Yankee in King Athur’s Court, A – Mark Twain

D

• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

E

• Embracing the Wide Sky – Daniel Tammet

F

• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg

G

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos
• Ghost and Mrs Muir, The – R A Dick
• Goat who Sailed the World, The – Jackie French
• Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

H

• Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Hating Alison Ashley – Robin Klein
• He died with a Felafel in his Hand – John Birmingham
• Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

I

• Incendiary – Chris Cleave
• Invisible Man, The – H G Wells

J

• Jessica – Bryce Courtney
• Joy Luck Club, The – Amy Tan
• Jungle Book, The – Rudyard Kipling

K

• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  

L

• Life of Pi, The – Yann Martel
• Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
• Little Princess, A – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Loathing Lola – William Kostakis (Persnickety Snark)
• Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkein
• Love Child, The – Fran Cusworth
• Love Walked In – Marisa de los Santos (Books on the Brain)

M

• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• Much Ado about Nothing – William Shakespeare
• My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin

N

• Name of the Rose, The – Umberto Eco
• No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McColl Smith

O

P

• Paradise Lost – John Milton
• Perfume – Patrick Suskind
• Pilgrim’s Progress, The – John Bunyan
• Playing Beatie Bow – Ruth Park

Q
R

• Railway Children, The – E Nesbit
• Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
• Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

S

• Scarlet Letter, The – Nathanial Hawthorne
• Scarlet Pimpernel, The – Emmuska Orczy
• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
• School of Essential Ingredients, The – Erica Bauermeister
• Secret Life of Bees, The – Sue Monk Kidd
• Secret River, The – Kate Grenville (CaribousMom)
• Series of Unfortunate Events, A – Lemony Snicket
• Smiley’s People – John Le Carre
• Stepford Wives, The – Ira Levin
• Suitable Boy, A – Vikram Seth
• Suite Francais – Irene Nemirovsky
• Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The – Alan Bradley

T

• Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Trial, The - Franz Kafka

U
V

• Versace Sisters – Cate Kendall (Australia’s Biggest Book Group fundraiser)

W

• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

X
Y
Z