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I sat down to document my TBR (to be read) shelf today, and was alarmed at what I came up with. It is neverending, and constantly growing. I thought I’d share with you below… and be advised, this is only the TBR books that I feel really inspired to read RIGHT NOW; I haven’t even listed for you the ones that are sitting lonely to which I say “meh”.

West with the Night, Beryl Markham - came with an endorsing blurb from Hemingway, good enough for me

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

In the Woods, Tana French

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Oliver Sacks

By-line: Ernest Hemingway

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

The Ballad of Typhoid Mary, J.F. Federspiel

Two Lives, Janet Malcolm (biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas)

Good Bones, Margaret Atwood

The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson

The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester

The Apothecary's Demise, Anne Sloan

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

War and Peace, Tolstoy

A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein

Don Quixote, Cervantes

The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery

Whatever You Say I Am (Eminem autobiography)

Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky

Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich

The Giver, Lois Lowry

Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer

The Pied Piper, Ridley Pearson

Nothing to Lose, Lee Child

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte

…WHEW! I know, right?

I’m such a head case collector. We’ll see what I get through on the vacay, hmm? Aren’t you curious? I am. 🙂 There’s still books 4 and 3 of Maisie Dobbs to finish, too, of course – and no, I was not able to put Messenger of Truth (book 4) down, so I will be reading Pardonable Lies (book 3) next. Yes, I’m a mess.

I’ll try to post tomorrow on my way out, so we’ll have one last goodbye. And then I’ve got daily posts coming, if all goes according to plan, to see you through my vacation! Happy reading! I’ll try and take some notes and oh, what I’ll have to tell you upon my return! Where should I start in this huge pile? Any votes?

P.S. Sorry about the weird tiling above – it was too much work to get all these images loaded so I hope that you will please kindly deal with it 🙂 Thanks!

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