One of the results of following so many great bloggers and BookTubers is that I keep adding new books to my wish list. I’ve recently created a Goodreads account (yes, it took me quite a while) and decided to only add books I own but haven’t read yet to my “want to read” shelf. Therefore, I’ll continue to take advantage of Amazon lists to keep up with all the books that caught my attention and that I want to read in the future, as I’ve been doing for years, regardless if I end up ordering the books from there or not.
The number of books on my wish list grew a bit out of control, though. So, I decided to take a closer look at it in order to assess if I still yearned to read all those books. After spending almost two hours scrolling through it and reading many blurbs, I realised that I didn’t even remember why I had added some of them to my wish list in the first place.
I had around 560 books on the list before going over it, and have to admit feeling relieved after removing 94 which I didn’t feel like reading any longer. Nevertheless, I’m listing them below so, if some of them are among your favourite books of all time, you can convince me to read them after all.
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All that It’s Left to Tell by Daniel Lowe
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Among Others by Jo Walton
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Black Vodka by Deborah Levy
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Broken River by J. Robert Cennon
Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson
Daisy in Chains by Sharon Bolton
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Defectors by Joseph Kanon
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Gillespie and I by Jane Harries
Girl at War by Sara Novic
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
House of Names by Colm Tóibín
How to Be a Kosovan Bride by Naomi Hamill
I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible by Paul Auster
Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
London Fields by Martin Amis
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Making Space by Sarah Tierney
Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Mussolini’s Island by Sarah Day
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory
One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun
Room by Emma Donoghue
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
Shelter by Sarah Franklin
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies
Strange Magic by Syd Moore
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Constant Soldier by William Ryan
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
The Eleventh Letter by Tom Tomaszewski
The Empathy Problem by Gavin Extence
The End We Start from by Megan Hunter
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O’Donnel
The Museum of Cathy by Anna Stothard
The Museum of You by Carys Bray
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
The Photographer’s Wife by Suzanne Joinson
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Under the Udula Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Women Who Blow on Knots by Ece Temelkuran
A Bag Full Of Stories 
I really didn’t like The Snow Child so I don’t blame you for removing that from your list haha. But I would definitely recommend All Quiet on the Western Front and Travels with my Aunt – I love Graham Greene!
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Thank you for the recommendations!
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I love everything from Gavin Extence, so I’d definitely recommend The Empathy Problem and The Universe Versus Alex Woods! I also loved Dark Matter, The North Water, The Night Circus, and Uprooted.
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The Night Circus was one of the books I was most unsure about removing from my wish list. In fact, I think I’ve removed it before and added it again quite a few times.
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Ha! It’s a while since I read it, but it’s one that I started, gave up on, then tried again and loved it! Definitely worth a go, I’d say!
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