I don’t know why I’m doing this to myself, but to reduce the risk of buying books I already own, but still haven’t read, I thought I should list all the unread, non-classic books on my shelves and lurking under my bed.
My classic books already have their very own lists on here, and this system will work fine as long as I remember what I classify as a classic and what I don’t!
Australian (fiction & non-fiction)
488 Rules For Life by Kitty Flanagan
7 Steps to Get Your Child Reading by Louise Park
Agamemnon’s Kiss by Inga Clendinnen
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
The Art of Reading by Damon Young
The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths
Arthur Phillip by Michael Pembroke
Australia Day by Stan Grant
Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
The Battlers by Kylie Tennant
Benang by Kim Scott
The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
Bridge of Clay by Marcus Zusak
The Bush by Don Watson
Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society by Inga Clendinnen
Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
Dancing With Strangers by Inga Clendinnen
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
Darwin’s Armada by Iain McCalman
Dear Reader by Debra Adelaide
The Death of Jesus by J M Coetzee
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Dragon and Kangaroo by Robert Macklin
The Drover’s Wives by Ryan O’Neill
Dymphna by Judith Armstrong
Elizabeth Macarthur by Michelle Scott Tucker
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
Exiles at Home by Drusilla Modjeska
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
The First Book of Samuel by Ursula Dubosarsky
Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
A First Place by David Malouf
Flames by Robbie Arnott
From the Edge by Mark McKenna
Georgiana by Brenda Niall
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
The Great Barrier Reef by Bowen
Gum by Ashley Hay
A History of Books by Gerard Murnane
Home by Larissa Behrendt
In the Garden of the Fugitive by Ceridwen Dovey
Inner Worlds Outer Space by Ceridwen Dovey
Island Home by Tim Winton
It’s Raining in Mango by Thea Astley
Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner
Journey from Venice by Ruth Cracknell
Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
Longlegs by Glenda Adams
The Media and the Massacre by Sonya Voumard
The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee
A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane
Modern Love by Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan
Myself When Young by Henry Handel Richardson
A New England Affair by Steven Carroll
No Friend But the Mountain by Behrouz Boochani
Not Drowning, Reading by Andrew Relph
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
Omega Park by Amy Barker
Only in New York by Lily Brett
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood
Quitting Plastic by Clara Williams Roldan & Louise Williams
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker
A Reef in Time by Charles Veron
Resilience by Anne Deveson
Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
Rowland Sinclair Mystery #10 All the Tears in China by Sulari Gentill
Sagaland by Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason
Shallows by Tim Winton
She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins
Shell by Kristina Olsson
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
A Single Tree by Don Watson
The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margot Neale
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Stories by Helen Garner
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
Sydney Harbour: A History by Ian Hoskins
Taboo by Kim Scott
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Tiger’s Eye by Inga Clendinnen
Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree by Cassandra Pybus
Tivington Nott by Alex Miller
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Trick of the Light by Laura Elvery
True North by Brenda Niall
True Stories by Helen Garner
Truganini by Cassandra Pybus
The Turning by Tim Winton
The Unknown Judith Wright by Georgina Arnott
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Watershed by Fabienne Bayet-Charlton
We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess by Aeneas Gunn
Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy
What Was Left by Eleanor Limprecht
The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
The White Girl by Tony Birch
The Writing Life by David Malouf
You Daughters of Freedom by Claire Wright
Other English-speaking countries
Actress | Anne Enright
The Alexandra Quartet | Lawrence Durrell
All the Little Live Things | Wallace Stegner
Amy and Isabelle | Elizabeth Strout
Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
An Artist in the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro
Arctic Summer | Damon Galgut
August Folly | Angela Thirkell
The Balkan Trilogy | Olivia Manning
Before Lunch | Angela Thirkell
The Beggar Maid | Alice Munro
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
The Blazing World | Siri Hudsvedt
The Book of Dust Vol 1 La Belle Sauvage | Philip Pullman
Book of Fairy Tales | Angela Carter
Casanova | Andrew Miller
Cheerfulness Break In | Angela Thirkell
The Children Act | Ian McEwan
Circe | Madeline Miller
Clock Dance | Anne Tyler
The Complete Short Stories of Saki | H.H. Munro
The Complete Stories | Anita Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | Xiaolu Guo
Coromandel Sea Change | Rumer Godden
The Day of the Scorpion | Paul Scott
The Daylight Gate | Jeanette Winterson
Delta of Venus | Anais Nin
A Division of the Spoils | Paul Scott
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara
Ducks, Newburypost | Lucy Ellmann
Dune | Frank Herbert
The Dutch House | Ann Patchett
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
A Field Guide to Reality | Joanna Kavanna
Fire From Heaven | Mary Renault
Flaubert’s Parrot | Julian Barnes
The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak
From a Low and Quiet Sea | Donal Ryan
Funeral Games | Mary Renault
G | John Berger
The Gap of Time | Jeanette Winterson
The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
The Girl With the Louding Voice | Abi Daré
Golden Hill | Francis Spufford
The Green Road | Anne Enright
Growing Up | Angela Thirkell
Hagseed by Margaret Atwood
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Home by Marilynne Robinson
House of Names by Colm Toibin
I’d Die For You and other lost stories | F Scott Fitzgerald
The Importance of Being Kennedy | Laurie Graham
In Love With George Eliot | Kathy O’Shaughnessy
Ingenious Pain | Andrew Miller
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison
Jamrach’s Menagerie | Carol Birch
The Jane Austen Society | Natalie Jenner
The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott
Juggling | Barbara Trapido
The Known World | Edward P Jones
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Last Stories by William Trevor
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
Let’s Hope For the Best by Caroline Setterwell
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Maisie Dobbs #14 To Die But Once | Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs #13 In This Grave Hour | Jacqueline Winspear
The Man Who Saw Everything | Deborah Levy
Marling Hall | Angela Thirkell
Mary and O’Neil | Justin Cronin
The Master | Colm Toibin
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden
Memoirs of the Future | Siri Hustvedt
Milkman | Anna Burns
Miss Bunting | Angela Thirkell
The Monster’s We Deserve | Marcus Sedgwick
A Month in the Country | J L Carr
Motherhood | Sheila Heti
Mr Wilder and Me | Jonathan Coe
Murder Takes a Holiday
My Son’s Story | Nadine Gordimer
The Mysterious Mr Quin | Agatha Christie
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
One Morning Like a Bird by Andrew Miller
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Painted Drum | Louise Erdrich
The Peacock Spring | Rumer Godden
The Parisian | Isabella Hammad
Peace Breaks Out | Angela Thirkell
The Penelopiad | Margaret Atwood
A People’s History of Heaven | Mathangi Subramanian
The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
A Place of Greater Safety | Hilary Mantell
The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich
The Pleasure Seekers | Tishani Doshi
Pompeii | Robert Harris
The Position | Meg Wolitzer
The Powerbook | Jeanette Winterson
The Prague Sonata | Bradford Morrow
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Rites of Passage by William Golding
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie
The Rotter’s Club by Jonathan Coe
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
Selected Stories Vol 2 by William Trevor
The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell
Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Singapore Sling by J G Farrell
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hudsvedt
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
The Spinoza Problem by Irvin D Yalom
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Strangers by Anita Brookner
Summer Half by Angela Thirkell
Temples of Delight | Barbara Trapido
The Ten Thousand Things | John Spurling
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
The Towers of Silence | Paul Scott
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller
Troubles | J G Farrell
Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise | Oscar Hijuelos
The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unicorn | Iris Murdoch
Universal Love | Alexander Weinstein
The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett
The Virgin in the Garden | A S Byatt
The Voyage of the Narwhal | Andrea Barrett
Warlight | Michael Ondaatje
Washington Black | Esi Edugyan
The Western Wind | Samantha Harvey
When I Lived in Modern Times | Linda Grant
Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens
White Houses | Amy Bloom
White Teeth | Zadie Smith
The Widows of Malabar Hill | Jujata Massey
Wild Strawberries | Angela Thirkell
The Year Without Summer | Guinevere Glasfurd
The Zigzag Way | Anita Desai
Read in Translation
Absolutely on Music by Murakami and Ozawa
After the Circus by Patrick Modiano
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
All Happy Families by Hervé le Tellier
Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami
The Book of Tea | Kakuzo Okakura
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Cassandra | Christa Wolf
Chernobyl Prayer | Svetlana Alexievich
Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata
Dance Dance Dance | Haruki Murakami
Death Fugue | Sheng Keyi
Diary of a Mad Old Man | Junichiro Tanizaki
The Discreet Hero | Mario Vargas Llosa
The Eighth Life | Nino Haratischvili
The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami
The End of Loneliness | Benedict Wells
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk
The Forest of Wool and Steel | Natsu Miyashita
Frog | Mo Yan
The German House | Annette Hess
The Great Passage | Shion Miura
Hellenistic Lives | Plutarch
The History of the Siege of Lisbon | Jose Saramago
I Am a Cat | Soseki Natsume
If Cats Disappeared from the World | Genki Kawamura
India | V S Naipaul
Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk
Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
The Key | Junichiro Tanizaki
Killing Commendatore | Huraki Murakami
Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto
Kusamakura | Natsume Soseki
Laura: A Journey into the Crystal | George Sand
Letters on Life | Rainer Maria Rilke
Little Jewel | Patrick Modiano
Lives of the Caesars | Suetonius
Maigret and the Ghost by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Killer by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Minister by Georges Simenon
Maigret Goes to School
A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simeon
Maigret’s Anger by Georges Simeon
Maigret and the Saturday Caller by Georges Simeon
Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret’s Failure
Maiget’s First Case by Georges Simenon
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Men Without Women by Murakami
Mirror Shoulder Signal by Dorthe Nors
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Nanjing Requiem | Ha Jin
Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami
Nothing Holds Back the Night | Delphine de Vigan
On the Line | Joseph Ponthus
Paris Nocturne | Patrick Modiano
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories edited | Joost Zwagerman
Petersburg | Andrei Bely
The Pigeon | Patrick Suskind
The Pleasure Seekers | Tishani Doshi
The Prospector | J M G Le Clezio
Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi
The Republic of Wine | Mo Yan
Revenge | Yoko Ogawa
Secondhand Time | Svetlana Alexievich
The Shadow King: A Novel | Maaza Mengiste
Signed, Picpus | Georges Simenon
The Sisters Brothers | Patrick DeWitt
Solitude and Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Silvana Paternostro
The Sound of Waves | Yukio Mishima
South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami
The Stolen Bicycle | Wu Ming-Yi
Strange Weather in Tokyo | Hiromi Kawakami
A Strangeness in My Mind | Orhan Pamuk
Suspended Sentences | Patrick Modiano
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy | Yanis Varoufakis
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino | Hiromi Kawakami
The Travelling Cat Chronicles | Hiro Arikawa
Three Apples Fell From the Sky | Narine Abgaryan
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan | Georges Simenon
The Unwomanly Face of War | Svetlana Alexievich
Views of Nature | Alexander Von Humboldt
A Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami
The Woman in the Dunes | Kobo Abe
The Wonder Down Under | Nina Brochmann & Ellen Stokken Dahl
Non-Fiction
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Age of Genius | A C Grayling
Alone in America | Robert A Ferguson
The Anarchy | William Dalrymple
Being a Beast | Charles Foster
Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister | Jung Chang
Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Brain’s Way of Healing | Norman Doidge
The Broken Road | Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Brother’s Gardeners | Andrea Wulf
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | Robert K Massie
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmakers | A. N. Wilson
City of Djinns | William Dalrymple
The Cloudspotter’s Guide | Gavin Pretor-Pinney
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution | Timothy Tackett
The Consolations of Philosophy | Alain de Botton
Coventry | Rachel Cusk
Creatures of a Day | Irvin d Yalom
Curiosities and Splendour: An Anthology of Classic Travel Literature
The Danube by Nick Thorpe
Digging For Richard III by Mike Pitts
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Educated by Tara Westover
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
England’s Queens by Elizabeth Norton
The Flaneur by Edmund White
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farmer
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Greater Journey by David McCullough
Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey
Havana | Mark Kurlansky
Hiroshima | John Hersey
Hokkaido Highway Blues | Will Ferguson
Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari
How Proust Changed My Life | Alain de Botton
Imagining London | Anna Quindlen
In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson
In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life | Claire Tomalin
The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi 1857 | William Dalrymple
Les Parisiennes | Anne Sebba
Literary Places | Sarah Baxter
Lost Japan | Alex Kerr
Lucy Maud Montgomery | Mary Henley Rubio
M Train by Patti Smith
Magic Island: The Fictions of L M Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterson
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Novel of the Century by David Bellos
October by China Mieville
On the Narrow Road: Journey into a Lost Japan by Lesley Downer
On Writing by Stephen King
Origins by Amin Maalouf
Pandora’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths | Natalie Haynes
The Pattern in the Carpet | Margaret Drabble
The Porcelain Thief | Huan Hsu
Red Sky & Sunrise | Laurie Lee
The Rhine | Ben Coates
Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture | Matt Goulding
The Roads to Sata: A 2000 Mile Walk Through Japan | Alan Booth
Running With Sherman | Christopher McDougall
A Russian Journal | John Steinbeck
Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
A Short History of Europe by Simon Jenkins
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Stumbling Stone by Airdre Grant
The Swerve: How the RenaissancGreenblatt
Territory of Light | Yuko Tsushima
Testament of Friendship | Vera Brittain
Thermopylae | Paul Cartledge
Things I Don’t Want to Know | Deborah Levy
Too Much and Not in the Mood | Durga Chew-Bose
Virginia Woolf | Hermione Lee
The Way Home: Tales From a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
What to Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman
The White Road by Edmund de Waal
Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
Women of the Raj by Margaret Macmillan
You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
YES
I have a problem!
I'm a little scared to make a list … are you signing up for the Mount TBR challenge this year?
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Good to see I'm not the only one in this position (300+ titles on mine counting the e-books) 😛
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