Not necessarily in this order…
- Graham Greene. The End of the Affair. Penguin, 1962. (Book first published 1951.) 187 pages.
- John Yorke. Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them. Penguin, 2013. 300 pages.
- Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. Vintage, 2005. (Book first published 1997.) 457 pages.
- Patricia Highsmith. The Talented Mr Ripley. Vintage, 1999. (Book first published 1955.) 249 pages.
- Robert B Pippin. Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy. University of Virginia Press, 2012. 106 pages.
- The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. Composed and arranged by Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C Dennett. Penguin, 1982. (Book first published 1981.) 483 pages.
- Alison Bechdel. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Jonathan Cape, 2006. 232 pages.
- Alberto Manguel. A History of Reading. Flamingo, 1997. (Book first published 1996.) 319 pages.
- Dudley Andrew. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995. 350 pages.
- Steve Silberman. Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently. Allen & Unwin, 2015. 521 pages.
- Ali Smith. Autumn. Hamish Hamilton, 2016. 260 pages.
- George Eliot. Middlemarch. Wordsworth Editions, 2000. (Book first published 1872.) 688 pages.
- Herman Hesse. The Glass Bead Game. Trans. Richard and Clara WInston. Vintage, 2000. (Das Glasperlenspiel first published 1943.) 530 pages.
- Martin Jay. Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme. University of California Press, 2005. 409 pages.
- Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go. Walker Books, 2008. 479 pages.
- Steven Pinker. The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity. Penguin, 2012. (Book first published 2011.) 841 pages.
- Tony Judt. Ill Fares the Land. Penguin, 2010. 237 pages.
- Eleanor Catton. The Luminaries. Granta, 2013. 832 pages.
- Bruce Springsteen. Born to Run. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 510 pages.
- Joe Moran. Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV. Profile Books, 2013. 376 pages.
- Richard Feynman. Six Easy Pieces. Penguin, 2001. (It’s complicated.) 138 pages.
- James Gleick. The Information. Fourth Estate, 2011. 427 pages.
- Richard McGuire. Here. Hamish Hamilton, 2014. 320 pages.
- David Hendy. Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening. Ecco, 2013. 335 pages.
- Naomi Klein. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Penguin, 2015. (Book first published 2014.) 466 pages.
- Stephen Miller. Conversation: A History of a Declining Art. Yale University Press, 2006. 328 pages.
- Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Fawcett Columbine, 1994. 229 pages.
- Raymond Williams. Border Country. Parthian, 2006. (Book first published 1960.) 436 pages.
- Ted Hughes. Birthday Letters. Faber and Faber, 1998. 198 pages.
- David Bordwell. The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 142 pages.
That’s 11,385 pages. Dividing that by 300 (which allows for a fair few non-reading days) produces a number just under 38. So if I aim to read 40 pages a day, every day, then by the end of 2017 I will have read all of these books!