Hooray for gift cards to bookstores! A list of books that I may, or may not, have read, that I am considering or definitely buying. Have read denoted by bold, have not or have not finished, denoted by italics.

It is not unusual, especially if I can find them used, for me to buy books without having read them; though it is very unusual for me to buy a book without having heard of it before, or having spent the last year or so complaining about how I want to read it but never have time.

• Long May She Reign - Ellen Emerson White
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World - Haruki Murakami
• The Wind up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Last Words of Notable People - William B. Brahms