For a while now I have been accumulating lots of books without actually reading them.

This happens when a friend recommends a book and I say ‘Okay, I’ll check it out’ and buy the book because it’s probably relatively cheap. I get the book, say ‘Oh, neat, will read that soon’ and stick it on my bookcase where it gathers dust.

It’s getting to a point now where my bookcase is full, but a hell of alot of books have not been read.

I’ve compiled this list of books which I currently need to read. I will update this post regularly with the books that I’m reading, and crossing off books I’ve read.

Here comes the list:

1. Introducing Chaos

2. Introducing Einstein

3. Introducing Newton

4. Introducing Freud

5. Introducing Quantum Physics

6. Introducing Stephen Hawking

7. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

8. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor – Completed

9. Signs of Life by Jon Harrison

10. Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

11. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

12. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

14. My Boring-ass Life by Kevin Smith

15. What is Islam? by Chris Horrie

16. Intensity by Dean Koontz

17. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

18. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

19. The Snow Goose by Paul Galico

20. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre

21. The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman – Completed

22. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

23. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

24. No Surrender by Hiroo Onoda

25. Canary Row by John Steinbeck

26. Cosmology by John McLeish

27. The Sky by Levy

28. Remarkable Discoveries! by Ashall

29. The Heavens

30. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietschze

31. Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft – Completed

32. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – Completed