TBR list

Reading is, and always has been, one of my favourite pastimes. I was introduced to the concept of a TBR (to be read) list by The Well Read Kitty. She informed readers quite some time ago that her TBR pile is almost as tall as she is! I have a list of books and authors on my phone that have caught my eye, or books that I think "I'd like to read that" but promptly forget as soon as I enter a library. The list is made up of books I've seen in airport bookshops, read reviews about, or had recommended by friends. It works; I peruse shelf after shelf, being enticed and distracted by the endless titles, then pull out my phone and start searching for what I really want. The list constantly expands and contracts.

Here's what's left of my TBR list, in no particular order:

Books to read:

• Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Loop - Nicholas Evans
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• About a Boy - Nick Hornby
• The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
• Look Me in the Eye - John Elder Robinson
• The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
• The White Masai - Corinne Hoffman
• The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
  
• Novel About My Wife - Emily Perkins
• After the Fall - Kylie Ladd
• I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
• The Cider House Rules - John Irving (actually, I'm reading this at the moment)
  

Authors to read (or read more of):

• Malachy McCourt
• Joanna Trolloppe
• Jodi Picoult
  
• Jeremy Clarkson
• Tony Parsons
• Kathe Lette
• Patricia Scanlan
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Douglas Kennedy
• Lionel Shriver
  

Biographies:

• Life's Too F***ing Short - Janet Street-Porter
• Things I've Been Silent About - Azar Nafisi
• Things I Want my Daughters to Know - Elizabeth Noble
  
• Almost French - Sarah Turnbull
• There Was a Time - Dorothy Butler
• All This and a Bookshop Too - Dorothy Butler
• Any and all music biographies

I also have a TBF (to be finished) list, but that's a different blog post. ;-)

Do you have a TBR list? What's on it? Have you read anything on mine? What would you recommend I add (remembering that I'm not into sci-fi, fantasy, or really gory stuff)?