The Book Backlog!

New Year's Resolution #4 is to clear my backlog of unread or unfinished books that litter my now many bookshelves and in the spirit of that, I went through them all today and made the big, ugly list that I'm going to try and cut into. There was the brief, fleeting hope that I could erase it entirely, but I know myself too well. There's bound to be some book that I can't live without and therefore, I'll buy sometime this year and therefore, it'll add to this never-ending list.

Where to begin? I don't know... but this is the big, ugly backlog I'm lookin' at.

1. John Phillip Santos- Places Left Unfinished At The Time of Creation
2. DH Lawrence- Lady Chatterly's Lover
3. Jane Austen- Emma
4. Mario Vargas Llosa- The War of the End of the World
5. Maria Rosa Menocal- The Ornament of The World
6. William Faulkner- Light In August
7. Antonia Fraser- King Charles II
8. Dominique LaPierre and Javier Morro- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
9. Christopher Andrew- Defend The Realm
10. Alexandre Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo
11. Brian Doherty- Radicals for Capitalism
12. Coleman Barks- The Soul of Rumi
13. Ken and Denise Guest- British Battles
14. William Hague- William Pitt The Younger
15. Khaled Hosseini- The Kite Runner
16. Michael Chabon- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
17. Jean Stien- Edie: An American Biography
18. Edgar Rice Burroughs- The Martian Tales Trilogy
19. Victor Hugo- Les Miserables
20. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Living To Tell The Tale
21. Jon Savage- England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond
22. Eduardo Galeano- Genesis
23. Thomas Pakenham- The Scramble For Africa
24. Chris Salewicz- Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
25. Ursula K. LeGuin- The Left Hand of Darkness
26. James Feminore Cooper- The Last of the Mohicans
27. Frank Herbert- Dune
28. Ken Macleod- Dark Light
29. Michael Gartner and the Newseum- Outrage, Passion and Common Sense
30. Hunter S. Thompson- The Proud Highway
31. William Faulkner- The Sound and The Fury
32. Ross Terrill- The New Chinese Empire
33. John Nichols- The Milagro Beanfield War
34. Audrey Niffenegger- The Time Traveler's Wife
35. Virginia Woolf- The Waves
36. Sherwood Anderson- Winesburg, Ohio
37. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- The General and His Labyrinth
38. Antonia Fraser- Cromwell
39. Herman Melville- Moby Dick
40. Steven Runciman- The First Crusade/The Kingdom of Jerusalem/The Kingdom of Acre
41. Dee Brown- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
42. Gandhi- Autobiography
43. Bernard Cornwell- Rebel/Copperhead/Battle Flag/The Bloody Ground
44. George MacDonald Fraser- The Steel Bonnets
45. Alistair Horne- The Fall oF Paris
46. Doris Kearns Goodwin- Team of Rivals
47. John Updike- The Witches of Eastwick
48. Antonia Fraser- The Wives of Henry VIII
49. Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five
50. Garrison Keillor- Lake Woebegon Days
51. Ian McEwan- Atonement
52. Roy Jenkins- Gladstone
53. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Collected Novellas
54. Sena Naslund- Abundance
55. Stephanie Meyer- New Moon
56. Colin Clifford- The Asquiths
57. Christopher De Bellaguie- In The Rose Garden Of The Martyrs
58. Toni Morrison- The Bluest Eye