I've decided to keep my To Be Read page strictly for books that I don't own, books that have been recommended to me or that I hear about on NPR. This page is dedicated to a TBR list of a different sort--all the books that are currently in my possession that I have either never read or never made it through. There are two lists here, each in alphabetical order: one of fiction books, the other of non-fiction. Maybe someday in the distant future I'll be able to wheedle this list down...if I don't keep adding to it in the meantime.
I can't even begin to remember where most of these came from. Some of them were purchases at bookstores, garage sales, and library book sales. Others were gifts from friends or family. Still others were gotten free from this or that "Take a Book, Leave a Book" shelf. Some were bought this year; others have been on my shelf since I was a kid. Most were acquired with a sincere to desire to read them; a couple (The Evangelical President and The Professors) were given to me by a Republican friend who had snagged them at CPAC and knew that, as a Liberal, I would find them hysterically funny despite their attempts to be serious. All will be read someday. Maybe.
All links are to external pages. Not all links are to the exact edition that I own. Translators are noted.
Fiction
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-101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A
-Abigail by Joan Druett
-Alias: Shadowed by Lizzie Skurnick
-Alias: Skin Deep by Cathy Hapka
-Angels in America: Millenium Approaches (Part I) by Tony Kushner
-Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
-Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
-Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
-Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
-Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery
-Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
-Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
-Arabian Nights (Vol. I) by Anonymous (adapted from Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation by Jack Zipes)
-As You Like It by William Shakespeare
B
-Backstairs at the White House by Gwen Bagny and Paul Dubov
-Beneath a Mountain Moon by Silver RavenWolf
-Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
-The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
-Bloomability by Sharon Creech
-The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
C
-The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
-Cashelmara by Susan Howatch
-Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
-Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
-Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
-The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Translated by Sonia Soto)
-The Crimson Petal and the White by Michhel Faber
-The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
D
-The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
-Darcy's Passions: Pride and Prejudice Retold Through His Eyes by Regina Jeffers
-Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
-David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
-Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
-Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
E
-Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
F
-Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman
-The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brien
-Faust by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (Translated by Walter Arndt)
-Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
-Flesh of the God by Lauren Haney
-A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde
-Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh
G
-Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
-The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by O. Henry
-The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
-God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories by the Brothers Grimm (Translated by Ralph Manheim)
-Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
H
-Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-Hamlet by William Shakespeare
-Hard Times by Charles Dickens
-Heidi by Johanna Spyri
-Hellsing (1) by Kohta Hirano
-Hellsing (2) by Kohta Hirano
-Hellsing (3) by Kohta Hirano
-Hellsing (6) by Kohta Hirano
-Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
-Heyday by Kurt Andersen
-The High King by Lloyd Alexander
-The Hobbit or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
-The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
-Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I
-An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
-Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
-Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
J
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
-Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
K
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
L
-Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
-The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
-The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-The Lost Van Gogh by A. J. Zerries
M
-Macbeth by William Shakespeare
-Mandy by Julie Edwards
-The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
-Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
-Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
-A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee)
-The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
N
-Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
O
-Ode to a Banker by Lindsey Davis
-The Odes by Horace (Translated by Edward Marsh)
P
-Paradise Lost by John Milton
-Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
-Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
-Prairie by Anna Lee Waldo
-Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus (Translated by Philip Vellacott)
Q
-The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
R
-Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery
-Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
-The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
-Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
-Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
-The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith
-Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
-Roots by Alex Haley
-Rubicon by Steven Saylor
S
-S Is for Space by Ray Bradbury
-Sakkara by Noel Barber
-Salomé by Oscar Wilde
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
-Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Translated by Hilda Rosner)
-Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
-Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
-Stargate Atlantis: Nightfall by James Swallow
-Stargate SG-1: Hydra by Holly Scott and Jamie Duncan
-Stargate Universe: Air by James Swallow
-Straight Man by Richard Russo
-The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
-A Study in Scarlet and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-Swiss Family Robinson by Jean Rudolph Wyss
T
-Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
-The Tempest by William Shakespeare
-Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
-Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia (Hesiod I) by Hesiod (Translated by Glenn W. Most)
-Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
-Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
-The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Translated by Eleanor Hochman)
-Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
-Tides of War by Steven Pressfield
-A Time to Kill by John Grisham
-Touch and Go by C. Northcote Parkinson
-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
-A Treasury of Fantasy edited by Cary Wilkens
-Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
-Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson
-The Two Towers by J. R. Tolkien
U
-The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
V
W
-Wind in the Stone by Andre Norton (uncorrected proof)
-Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
-A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
-Worth Dying For by Lee Child
X
Y
Z
Non-Fiction
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-The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury
A
-The Age of Attila by C. D. Gordon
-Alexander by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
-Alexander the Great and His Time by Agnes Savill
-Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin
-Ancient Greece: State and Society by Nicholas F. Jones
-Ancient Myths by Norma Lorre Goodrich
-The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas: Aztec, Maya, Inca by Victor W. von Hagen
-Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
-The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden
B
-Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella
-A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking (with Leonard Mlodinow)
-Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank R. Stockton
C
-A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism by John A. Buehrens and Forrest Church
-The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant
-The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
D
-A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
-The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (Translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday)
-Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin
-The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin
E
-Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir
-The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
-Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey
-The Elizabethan Age edited by David L. Stevenson
-The End of the Roman World by Stewart Perowne
-Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus (Plato I) by Plato (Translated by Harold North Fowler)
-The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World by Bill Sammon
F
-Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
G
-Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
-Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg M. Epstein
-The Greeks: Their Life and Customs by E. Guhl and W. Koner
-Greek Civilization and Character: The Self-Revelation of Ancient Greek Society by Arnold J. Toynbee
-Greek Historical Thought: From Homer to the Age of Heraclius by Arnold J. Toynbee
H
-Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Bettany Hughes
-Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises by Xenophon (Translated by Robin Waterfield)
-A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present (Vol. I) by Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser
-The Histories (The Landmark Herodotus) by Herodotus (Translated by Andrea L. Parvis)
-H.M.S. Bounty: A True Account of the Famous Mutiny by Alexander McKee
I
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
-In Ireland Long Ago by Kevin Danaher
-Introduction to Aristotle edited by Richard McKeon
J
-Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward)
-Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar
K
-Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
L
-Life in Elizabethan Days: A Picture of a Typical English Community at the End of the Sixteenth Century by William Stearns Davis
-Life in Medieval England by J. J. Bagley
-Life in Stuart England by Maurice Ashley
-The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia by Nina Tumarkin
M
-The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell
-Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (Translated by Ralph Manheim)
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
-Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
N
-Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia by Catherine Merridale
O
-The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray
P
-Paris in the Terror: June 1973-July 1974 by Stanley Loomis
-Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
-The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (translated by George Bull)
-The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
Q
R
-The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
-The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky
-The Republic by Plato (Translated by G. M. A. Grube)
-Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia by David Remnick
S
-The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates by Mark Munn
T
-Theaetetus and Sophist (Plato VII) by Plato (Translated by Harold North Fowler)
-Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
-Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, and Epistles (Plato IX) by Plato (Translated by R. G. Bury)
U
-Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
V
W
-A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson
-Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means (with Marvin J. Wolf)
X
Y
Z
