Clearing the Decks

Here’s the project!

I have more books than house-room. A bigger house would be one solution, but we like it here and so clearing out a few books seemed a more practical alternative.

So I’ve selected a hundred books from the ridiculous number that I have unread. Those books are now my home library, to be chosen from when I need a book but don’t have one in hand. And, like library books, passed along once I’ve finished with them.

No deadlines, but I’ll post updates of how I’m getting on from time to time and I’ll try to keep running totals here.

Books I’ve ditched will be struck out and books I’ve read will be in bold, and linked if I’ve written about them at any length.

Right now the totals are:

Read - 9
Ditched - 31
To go – 60

And now here’s that list:

The Girls of Riyadah by Rajaa Alsanea
The Haunt by A L Barker
Poker Face by Josie Barnard
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
Someone Else by Tonino Benacquista
Restless by William Boyd
Bleedout by Joan Brady
The Used Women’s Book Club by Paul Byers
The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalldr
The Shakespeare Secret by J J Carrell
The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Cowboy by Sara Davidson
Ireland by Frank Delaney
The Consequences of Marriage by Isla Dewar
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Stone Cradle by Louise Doughty
Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson
The Way Things Look To Me by Roopa Farooki
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
The Ninth Stone by Kylie Fitzgerald.
Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
The Petty Details of So and So’s Life by Camilla Gibb
Masterpiece by Miranda Glover
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Sleep Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
The Harvest by Christopher Hart
The Window of the South by Robert Hicks
Small g: a Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
Plea of Insanity by Jiliane Hoffman
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
The Book of Loss by Judith Jedamus
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen
The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
The Priest of Evil by Matti Joensuu
Belief by  Stephanie Johnson
Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The Savage Altar by Åsa Larsson
The Greatest Gift by Danny Leigh
By The Light of Falling Stars by J Robert Lennon
The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robery Lohr
Sister by Rosamond Lupton
Death Wore a Diadem by Iona MacGregor
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona Maclean
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Rebels by Sandor Märai
The Consolation of Nature by Valerie Martin
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
A Tale of Two Sisters by Anna Maxted
Pilate’s Wife by Antoinette May
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
Spider by Patrick McGrath
Liars and Saints by Maille Meloy
Like Being Killed by Ellen Miller
Never Eat Your Heart Out by Judith Moore
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Living With Saints by Mary O’Connell
The Bitch Goddess Notebook by Martha O’Connor
Bing Banged My Lula by Frankie Park
Lorelei’s Secret by Caroline Parkhurst
The Châtelet Apprentice by Jean-François Parot
For The Love of Angel by Susan Penhaligon
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
Serena by Ron Rash
A History of Insects by Yvonne Roberts
The Blackest Bird by Joel Rose
Firmin by Sam Savage
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Drood by Dan Simmons
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Things to Make and Mend by Ruth Thomas
Down Among The Gods by Kate Thompson
Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
The Horrific Sufferings of Hercules Barefooot by Carl-Johan Vallgren
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh
Only Say The Word by Niall Williams
Divine Victim by Mary Wings
Sleep by Banana Yoshimoto
The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi