Anyone who loves books has an unread library. Those books you bought on a whim or because you heard great things about them and you haven’t quite gotten around to reading them yet. Recently when it seemed like I had books and magazines in every corner of the house I did a massive tidy up. When the books had to be sorted into fiction and non-fiction so we could find anything in the four bookcases I knew it was time to actually read my unread library.

In 2013 I am not going to buy any new books (other than those for bookclub) and instead I am going to read my unread library. With over 150 books in the unread library I do not expect to read them all in 2013 but I am going to have a go. Once it’s read I will post a review for everyone with a link on this page.

My unread library books

• A Child Against All Odds – Robert Winston
• A Cup of Light – Nicole Mones
• A Dance in Time – Orna Ross
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
• A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz
• A Life in Frocks – Kelly Houst
• A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
• A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
• A Reliable Wife – Robert Coolrick
• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
• A Tiny Bit Marvellous – Dawn French
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Amandine – Marlena de Blasé
• Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
• Anthony and Cleopatra – Colleen McCullough
• Ape House – Sara Gruen
• Aphrodite – Isabel Allende
• At Home – Bill Bryson
• Beastly - Alex Flinn
• Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
• Blog Inc – Joy Kho
• Boudicia Breaming the Bull – Manda Scott
• Brain Rules – John Medina
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
• Breath – Tim Winton
• Change of Heart – Jodi Piccoult
• City Watch Trilogy – Terry Pratchett
• Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
• Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt – Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
• Conversations with God Volume 2 – Neale Donald Walsch
• Digrace: A Novel - J. M. Coetzee
• Doctrines and Visions – Noam Chomsky
• East of the Sun - Julia Gregson
• Eichmann and the Holocaust – Hannah Arendt
• Emma – Jane Austen
• Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
• Fallen – Lauren Kate
• Fishing for Stars – Bryce Courtney
• Flirting with Finance – Anneli Knight & Virginia Graham
• Foreign Correspondent – Geraldine Brookes
• Fortune Cookie – Bryce Courtney
• Freddy and Fredericka – Mark Helprin
• Happy Valley – Patrick White
• Have a Little Faith – Mitch Albom
• Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
• How to Break Your Own Heart – Maggie Alderson
• I am Scrooge – Adam Roberts
• I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
• Idiot Nation – Michael Moore
• In the Shadow of the Banyan – Vaddey Ratner
• La’s Orchestra Saves the World – Alexander McCall Smith
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• Lilah – Marek Halter
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• Long Way Round – Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
• Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Lovesong – Alex Miller
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
• Making Money – Terry Pratchett
• Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
• Me Cheeta – James Lever
• Mediterranean Women Stay Slim Too – Melissa Kelly & Eve Adamson
• Mort – Terry Pratchett
• Mosquito – Roma Tearne
• Mrs Queen Takes the Train – William Kuhn
• Mutiny on the Bounty – John Boyne
• My Brilliant Career/ My Career Goes Bung – Miles Franklin
• My Grammar and I … or Should that be Me? – Caroline Taggart & JA Wines
• Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Piccoult
• Nocturnes – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
• Parisians – Graham Robb
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
• Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadful - Steve Hockensmith & Patrick Arrasmith
• Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter – AE Moore
• Religion for Atheists – Alain de Botton
• Rosewater and Soda Bread – Masha Mehran
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday
• Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
• Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
• Second Glance – Jodi Picoult
• Secret Keeper – Kate Morton
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
• Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
• Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Lily Blake, Evan Daugherty & John Lee Hancock
• Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
• Still Alice – Lisa Genova
• Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• The Aloha Quilt – Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
• The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
• The Book of Rachael – Leslie Cannold
• The Book of Rapture – Nikki Gemmell
• The Case for God – Karen Armstrong
• The Cleansing of Mahommed – Chris McCourt
• The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
• The Complete Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm
• The Danish Girl – David Ebershoff
• The Dukan Diet – Dr Dukan
• The Fry Chronicles – Stephen Fry
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
• The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman My Review
• The Great Arch – Vicki Hastrich
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
• The Hobbit – Tolkien
• The Host – Stephenie Meyer
• The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
• The Household Guide to Dying – Debra Adelaide
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• The Lake of Dreams – Kim Edwards
• The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
• The Lost Book of Salem – Katherine Howe
• The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
• The Messenger – Markus Zusak
• The Ode Less Travelled – Stephen Fry
• The Other Side of Paradise – Margaret Mayhew
• The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
• The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Sandalwood Tree - Elle Newmark
• The School of Essential Ingredients – Erica Bauermeister
• The Selected Works of TS Spivet – Reif Larsen
• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Shelly Beach Writers Group – June Loves
• The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
• The Social Contract – Jean-Jacues Rousseau
• The Sum of Our Days – Isabel Allende
• The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
• The Tale of Murasaki – Liza Dalby
• The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
• The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom
• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Travel Writer – Simone Lazaroo
• The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
• The Winner Stands Alone – Paulo Coelho
• The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse
• The Witches – Roald Dahl
• The Zookeeper’s War – Steven Conte
• Things I Want my Daughters to Know – Elizabeth Noble
• Tis – Frank McCourt
• Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
• Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
• Why I am So Wise – Friedrich Nietzsche
• With My Body – Nikki Gemmell
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
• Zone 22 – Tig Hague

I discovered this great idea over on Pancakes and French Fries. If you decide to do your own Unread Library Challenge please do send us the link below.