Unread Books

A list of books we've not read — please also see the contagion-themed list on our hilarious and informative contagion pages.  Also anything by Margaret Atwood or Mick Herron, obviously.

A Big Book of Reassuring Facts — Most People at the Bookgroup
The Evil of Ambiguity — Most People at the Bookgroup
Y Caer Pedd Ei Ar — The Ancient Welsh Art of Speed Reading — Gareth Morgan
Volting Ambition: Getting to the Top in the Electricity Industry — Peter Roddis
Be Limp: Relaxing on Dirigibles — Cassandra Smith
Hurdy Gurdy — Christopher Wilson
Incomparable World — S I Martin
The Comedians — Graham Greene
Open Water — Caleb Azumah Nelson
Apeirogon — Colum McCann
The Dancing Face — Mike Phillips
The Essex Serpent — Sarah Perry
Mr Cadmus — Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor — Peter Ackroyd
Burial Rites — Hannah Kent
The Cadfael Chronicles: A Morbid Taste for Bones — Ellis Peters
The Prestige — Christopher Priest
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë
Swimming Against the Current: The Importance of Electrical Safety in Public Baths — Peter Roddis
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared — Jonas Jonasson
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
Howl's Moving Castle — Diana Wynne Jones
Hiding Behind Things: A Primer — Alison Lean
Behind the Scenes at the Museum — Kate Atkinson
Histeria: The History of Wisteria — Tom Lean
Real Tigers — Mick Herron
The Ballad of the Sad Café — Carson McCullers
Roger the Cabin Boy: Man-management at Sea — Gareth Morgan
Austerlitz — W G Sebald
The Time Traveller's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
Lost in Nepal — An Adventurer's Guide to The All-You-Can-Eat Buffets of Katmandu — Peter Roddis
The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth
The Odyssey — Homer / Emily Wilson
The Lying Room — Nicci French
The Whole Truth — Cara Hunter
Ohm Alone: Optimizing Domestic Wiring — Peter Roddis
Tome Alone: Stealing a Library, Book by Book, Map by Map — Tom Lean
The Penelopiad — Margaret Atwood
Surfeit of Lampreys — Ngaio Marsh
Gagging for It: First Steps for the First Time Brewer — Tom Lean
Gagging on It: First Aid for the First Time Brewer — Tom Lean
Tyll — Daniel Kehlmann
A Bend in the River — V S Naipaul
O Henry ! The Elimination of Inductance from Electrical Circuits — Peter Roddis
Two Faces of January — Patricia Highsmith
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon
All Hands on Deck: The Importance of Clarity of Annunciation Whilst Giving Orders at Sea — Gareth Morgan
Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad
The Tin Drum — Günter Grass
The Erotic Majesty of Bridges — Tom Lean
Any Old Iron — Anthony Burgess
Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol
I, Claudius — Robert Graves
Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fountainhead — Ayn Rand
What Am I Like ? Similes for Beginners — Tom Lean
The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
The Call of the Wild — Jack London
The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen
Off Your Trolley: How To Avoid Answering Moral Dilemmas — Tom Lean
The Dispossessed — Ursula K LeGuin
It Can't Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis
Grief is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter
The Fatal Tree — Jack Arnott
The Good People — Hannah Kent
The Dead Zone — Stephen King
The Awakening — Kate Chopin
Sideburns for Fun and Profit — Tom Lean
The Unit — Ninni Holmqvist
Making History — Stephen Fry
Making Up History — Tom Lean
The Woods, The Jungle, The Sea — Samuel Bigglesworth
Harriet Said — Beryl Bainbridge
The Loney — Andrew Michael Hurley
Tales of the Unexpected — Roald Dahl
The Heart Goes Last — Margaret Atwood
Boring: A History of Drills and Drilling — Tom Lean
Scoop — Evelyn Waugh
Billy Liar — Keith Waterhouse
A Farewell To Arms — Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
Learning To Talk — Hilary Mantel
The Black Dahlia — James Ellroy
Crisps: A Users' Guide — Tom Lean
The Rotters’ Club — Jonathan Coe
Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen
The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
Under The Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
The Raw Shark Texts — Steven Hall
The Rum Diary — Hunter S. Thompson
Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
Fifty Shades of Black: Fashion Tips for Historians — Tom Lean
The Painted Veil — Somerset Maugham
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time — Mark Haddon
The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
Into The Darkest Corner — Elizabeth Haynes
We Need To Talk About Kevin — Lionel Shriver
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight — Alexandra Fuller
Hysterical: A History of the Clergy — Tom Lean
Room — Emma Donoghue
Histerative: A History of History — Tom Lean


Please note this list is not comprehensive, and mayn't be accurate.