Books I own, but have not read.....

Not a very impressive way of reviving my blog, I must admit. But at the same time, cataloguing the books I own has been such an enjoyable activity that I couldn't resist this!

I've always thought myself to be a very avid reader (in fact, I still think that) but I just realized that I'm just as avid a book collector. I just cannot enter a bookstore and leave without having loosened my purse strings just that little bit. This has made me very wary of being in the vicinity of one off late considering that my financial status post doing up my home has sadly dwindled. S and me often dream of that day when we both can just enter Crossword or Landmark or and pick up books we want to without even thinking of their prices. Sigh.......

Anyway, coming back to the matter I am writing this post for, my finished catalog tells me that I own at least 93 books which I have not yet read!!! 93!! Can you beat that? Am not very happy about it but at least now I have a defined "to read" list.

Yes, you got that right - if you have managed to read this post till this point, you are going to be subjected to going through the list of 93 books that Sachin owns but has not yet read. So here goes:

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, Douglas

The Eleventh Commandment by Archer, Jeffrey

Paths of Glory by Archer, Jeffrey

The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunits by Ashley, Mike

The Mammoth Book of Fantasy by Ashley, Mike

Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Bach, Richard

Split Second by Baldacci, David

The Slayer of Kamsa by Banker, Ashok

The Japanese Wife by Basu, Kunal

The 3 Mistakes of my Life by Bhagat, Chetan

If I am Assassinated by Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali

The Best of Ruskin Bond by Bond, Ruskin

Carpet Sahib by Booth, Martin

Mirror Image by Brown, Sandra

Command the Morning by Buck, Pearl S.

The Power of Creative Intelligence by Buzan, Tony

How to Mind Map by Buzan, Tony

Witness for the Prosecution & Selected Plays by Christie, Agatha

The Mirror crack'd from Side to Side by Christie, Agatha

Partners in Crime by Christie, Agatha

I'll Be Seeing You by Clark, Mary Higgins

No Place Like Home by Clark, Mary Higgins

The Darkest Fear by Cohen, Harlan

The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus by Corbett, Jim

Postmortem by Cornwell, Patricia

Cause of Death by Cornwell, Patricia

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Cornwell, Patricia

Gorky Park + Nightwing by Cruz, Martin Smith

The Best of Roald Dahl by Dahl, Roald

The Snow Leopard Adventure by Dalal, Deepak

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles

Other Challenger Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Maracott Deep by Doyle, Arthur Conan

Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

Banker by Francis, Dick

The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank, Anne

The Case of the Careless Kitten by Gardner, Erle Stanley

Blink by Gladwell, Malcolm

Lord of the Flies by Golding, William

Stone of Tears by Goodkind, Terry

Blood of the Fold by Goodkind, Terry

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by Gray, John

Classic Mystery Stories by Greene

Shyam (in Marathi) by Guruji, Sane

A Spot of Bother by Haddon, Mark

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, H. Rider

Airport by Hailey, Arthur

A Second Chance at Eden by Hamilton, Peter F.

Hannibal by Harris, Thomas

Catch 22 by Heller, Joseph

The Dash to Khartoum by Henry, G A

Most Wanted - The First Line Up by Hitchcock, Alfred

It by King, Stephen

Duma Key by King, Stephen

Indian Stories by Kipling, Rudyard

Oh Shit Not Again by Kokate, Mandar

The Prophecy by Kuzneski, Chris

The Arraignment by Martini, Steve

The Best Short Stories by Maupassant, Guy de

Twilight by Meyer, Stephanie

Caribbean by Michener, James

Hawaii by Michener, James

Lore & Legends of Kerala by Narayanan, T C

An Outline of American History by Olson, Prof. Keith W.

Jaya, an illustrated reading of the Mahabharata by Pattanaik, Devadutta

The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe, Edgar Allan

Fools Die by Puzo, Mario

The New Army by Ranjan, Rajiva

Shriman Yogi (in Marathi) by Ranjit Desai

The Complete Adventures of Feluda by Ray, Satyajit

Midnight's Children by Rushdie, Salman

A Situation in New Delhi by Sahgal, Nayantara

Hauntings by Samanta, Suchitra

The Rozabal Line by Sanghi, Ashwin

The Last Song of Dusk by Sanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant

Shivaji and his Times by Sarkar, Jadunath

FIELD by Sathe, Rajiv & Shenoy, Vinayak

Airport 77 by Scheff, Michael & Spector, David

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William

Gold Mine + Monsoon by Smith, Wilbur

The Amulet of Samarkand by Stroud, Jonathon

Golem's Eye by Stroud, Jonathon

Ptolemy's Gate by Stroud, Jonathon

ET Traveller - 101 best holidays this season by Timesgroup

Unfinished Tales by Tolkien, JRR

Sigurd & Gudrun by Tolkien, JRR

Great Sea Stories by Various Authors

Great Short Stories by Various Authors

The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules

Conversations with God - Book 1 by Walsch, Neale Donald

Conversations with God - Book 2 by Walsch, Neale Donald

Pappillon by Charriere, Henri

Yes, before anybody tells me, I do know that this is a completely assorted set of tomes and there is no real reason I've not read them. Enough said - hopefully next time I'll be able to post a few reviews of some of the better ones amongst these. I am back! :)

P.S. Just so you know, currently am reading "Unfinished Tales" by JRR Tolkien....