#2013bookchallenge

As part of my new year's resolutions, I am planning to break my reading for pleasure dry spell by dusting off my bookshelves and cracking open some fresh spines.  I am aiming to read all of the untouched books on my home bookshelves (mainly, but not all fiction) and my desk at work.  Just for starters.  I might even go through my Amazon wishlist, or library account(s) history to see if anything was returned unread...  And I'm not intending on splashing any cash in the process because, well, we should all be using our libraries!



Fiction
Non-fiction

Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel

Calories and corsets - Louise Foxcroft

The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore

Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea - Thomas Wright


1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers - 

Mary Roach



I, Partridge - Steve Coogan

The Phantom Museum: 

: And Henry Wellcome's collection of medical curiosities



The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell

Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome 


Paradise - Koji Suzuki

Writing on death

Cat - Katherine M.Rogers

The human skull


Memoirs of a geisha - Aurthur Golden

SkullsAn Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection

The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall

The history of medicine: a very short introduction


Liver - Will Self

The breathless zoo: 

Taxidermy and the Culture of Longing



Beyond the Blossoming Fields - Jun'ichi Watanabe

On Art and Life - John Ruskin


Botchan - Natsume Soseki

Concerning Violence - Frantz Fanon


The cat in the coffin - Marinka Koike

Speed Tribes - Karl Taro Greenfeld


Skin - Tobias Hill

Dry Store Room No. 1 - Richard Fortey


The Artist of Eikando - Linda Lee Welch

Lost Japan - Alex Kerr


Fireworks - Angela Carter

Tokyo Vice - Jake Adelstein


Forbidden Colours - Yukio Mishima




An Artist in the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro




Ring - Koji Susuki




Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro




After Dark - Murakami




The Elephant Vanishes - Murakami



Audition - Ryu Murakami



69 - Ryu Murakami




Rashomon - Ryunosuke Akutagawa




Until I Find You - John Irving

Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman


P.s #2013bookchallenge is in case I chat about things on Twitter...

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