Putting Bobbob's bookshelf on a diet

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1Bobbobthebob
Bearbeitet: Feb. 5, 2014, 1:15 pm

I've split up my ought-to-read books into 5 vague categories (and shamelessly ripped off fundevogel's formatting!):

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Sea Watch by Adrian Tchaikovsky
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Embassytown by China Mieville
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Literary Fiction
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Plague by Albert Camus
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Africa Non-Fic
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Country of my Skull by Antjie Krog
My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth by Giles Foden

Nature Writing
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Corvus by Esther Woolfson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Edgelands by Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts
Waterlog by Roger Deakin
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Misc. Non-Fiction
The Poor Had No Lawyers by Andy Wightman
Woodlands by Oliver Rackham
Environmental History: A Concise Introduction by I.G. Simmons
For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Britain's Rare Flowers by Peter Marren
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

I don't intend to read all of these in one year but these are the ones I ought to try to prioritise. I have a bad habit of getting distracted though and the the moment I'm going back and forth between the following ebooks/library books:

Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal
Math in Minutes by Paul Glendinning

2Bobbobthebob
Feb. 5, 2014, 1:14 pm

Books purchased in 2014
British Red Data Books: 2. Insects (31/1/2014 - entomology reference)

3fundevogel
Feb. 6, 2014, 9:00 pm

We've got a little overlap too. Though I'm not sure I'll get to Blood Meridian or The Name of the Rose this year. I took a gander at Rose last year and decided I just wasn't where I needed to be mentally to enjoy it.