I don't usually blog twice in the same night, but I felt this matter deserved an update.
Currently reading:
'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo (an abridged edition)
Next few books lined up:
'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury
'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Truman Capote (might actually get it read this time...)
'Emma' by Jane Austen
The rest of the list, currently at the foot of my bed:
'Ghostwritten' by David Mitchell
'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer
'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest' by Stieg Larsson
'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami
'Grimm's Fairy Tales' by the Brothers Grimm
'Death of a Ladies' Man' by Alan Bissett
'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens
'Memoirs of a Geisha' by Arthur Golden
'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald
'England, England' by Julian Barnes
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
'Transition' by Iain Banks
'Northanger Abbey' by Jane Austen
'The Incredible Adam Spark' by Alan Bissett
'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot
'A Scanner Darkly' by Philip K Dick
'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson (another one I started at uni and never finished)
'After Dark' by Haruki Murakami
'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte (after all, I've read both her sisters)
'The Death of Bunny Munro' by Nick Cave
'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling
'The Handmaids' Tale' by Margaret Atwood
'Mansfield Park' by Jane Austen
'Post Office' - Charles Bukowski
'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe
'Hope for Newborns' by Rodge Glass
'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson
'Wetlands' by Charlotte Roche (tee hee)
'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain
'Running With Scissors' by Augusten Burroughs
'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh
'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens (probably a little early in the year for it, but I've seen so many adaptations of it)
'Sputnik Sweetheart' by Haruki Murakami
'Kim' by Rudyard Kipling
'Old Men in Love' by Alasdair Gray
'Persuasion' by Jane Austen
'The Men Who Stare At Goats' by Jon Ronson
'Selected Poems' by Robert Burns
'A Partisan's Daughter' by Louis de Bernieres
'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy
'Pulp' by Charles Bukowski
'Dangerous Liaisons' by Laclos
Phew...but then again, you can never have too many books.
Fuck, it's 0223 according to my laptop clock :/ Better go to bed and perhaps make some headway on this list on my way. G'night!
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