These are books that I own but have not yet read. I’m going to try to keep this list up to date, with a current total at the bottom. I wrote a few notes about this exercise in a blog post here.

A few of these books I have actually started reading at some point and then given up on – generally they’ve come highly recommended to me or I would have got rid of the book – and I have marked these with an asterisk.

A
Rabih Alameddine – The Angel of History
Dorothy Allison – Bastard Out of Carolina
Matsuda Aoko – Where the Wild Ladies Are
Ayesha Harruna Attah – The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy

B
Mourid Barghouti – I Saw Ramallah
Julian Barnes – Nothing to be Frightened of
Melissa Bashardoust – Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Sybille Bedford – Jigsaw
Gertrude Bell – The Desert and the Sown
Kobby Ben Ben – No One Dies Yet
Alan Bennett – Writing Home
Xan Brooks – The Clocks in this House All Tell Different Times
Helene Bukowski – Milk Teeth
Jim Butcher – Grave Peril
A S Byatt – The Children’s Book

C
Angela Carter – The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter – Wise Children
Blaise Cendrars – Moravagine
Michael Chabon – Maps and Legends: Reading and writing along the borderlands
Becky Chambers – Record of a Spaceborn Few
Raymond Chandler – The Little Sister
Vikram Chandra – Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Hilary Rodham Clinton – Living History
Colette – The Rainy Moon and Other Stories
David Crystal – The Stories of English

D
Lydia Davis – The End of the Story
Anita Desai – Diamond Dust
Stella Duffy – Everything is Moving Everything is Joined
Daphne Du Maurier – The Progress of Julius
Lawrence Durrell – The Dark Labyrinth

E
Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière – This is not the end of the book;
Dave Eggers – A Hologram for the King
Tan Twan Eng – The House of Doors
Pete Etchells – Lost in a Good Game
Sarah Rose Etter – Ripe

F
Michel Faber – D
Michael Frayn – Towards the End of the Morning

G
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Amitav Ghosh – Sea of Poppies

H
Alex Haley – Roots
Erin Hill – Never Done: a History of Women’s Work in Media Production
Chester Himes – A Rage in Harlem
Zora Neale Hurston – Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hwang Jungeun – DD’s Umbrella

I
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled

J
Tove Janssen – Fair Play
Alok Jha – The Water Book
Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass

K
Balsam Karam – The Singularity
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible

L
Nella Larsen – Passing
Lau Yee-wa – Tongueless
D H Lawrence – Selected Essays
Violette Leduc – Thérèse and Isabelle
Ursula K Le Guin – Space Crone
Mario Levrero – Empty Words

M
Constance Maud – No Surrender
Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses
Maaza Mengiste – Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Nadifah Mohamed – The Orchard of Lost Souls
Jan Morris – Venice
Susan Muaddi Darraj – Behind You is the Sea
Siddhartha Mukherjee – The Gene
Fiston Mwanza Mujila – Tram 83

N
R K Narayan – The Painter of Signs
Sian Northey – This House

O
Lola Olufemi – Experiments in Imagining Otherness

P
Orhan Pamuk – Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk – The New Life
Vaishnavi Patel – Kaikeyi
Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country
Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time
Sylvia Plath – Journals 1950–1962

Q
Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country

R
Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie – The Moor’s Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie – Shame
Geoff Ryman – The Child Garden

S
Christine Schutt – Pure Hollywood
Raja Shehadeh – Palestinian Walks
Mary Shelley – The Last Man*
Carol Shields – Unless
Vandana Singh – Utopias of the Third Kind
Leïla Slimani – Sex and Lies
Ali Smith – Summer
Zadie Smith – The Fraud
Ahdaf Soueif – In the Eye of the Sun

T
Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Judith Thurman – Secrets of the Flesh: a Life of Colette

W
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
Evie Wyld – After the Fire, a Still Small Voice

Z
Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Prisoner of Heaven
Gabrielle Zevin – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Various authors
The Book of Ramallah – edited by Maya abu al-Hayat
The Book of Tbilisi – edited by Gvantska Jobava and Becca Parkinson
Iraq + 100 – edited by Hassan Blasim
It Did Happen Here: an Antifascist People’s History by Moe Bowstern et al.
Protest: Stories of Resistance – edited by Ra Page
Rife: 21 Stories from Britain’s Youth – edited by Nikesh Shukla
Secret Ingredients: the New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
The Story: Love, Loss and the Lives of Women – selected by Victoria Hislop
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex – edited by Matilda Bickers

Total = 105