Off the Shelf Hideously Long List

I am almost embarrassed that what I consider to be a huge commitment (30 books) is, in fact, classified as no more than 'Making a Dent' in the Off the Shelf challenge, but I suppose that is pretty much exactly what's happening, as my TBR shelf is currently at 150+. Oh my indeed.

So. Here're my proposed 30. Let me know if any are hideously terrible:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I own this in hardcover and paperback and have yet obviously not read it)

The Reef, Wharton

A Brief History of Time (stolen from my aerospace engineering professor father — suck it, nerds)

Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin (got this in my stocking last Christmas)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Looking Glass Wars, Beddor (owned this an embarrassingly long time w/o reading it)

Rules of Civility, Towles

My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me (I got terribly excited about this and yet have not gotten around to it yet, boo to me)

The Crimson Petal and the White

Twilight Sleep, Wharton

The Divine Comedy

A Damsel in Distress, Wodehouse

Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo (I am about 2/3 through this, but I stopped in 2007 and never finished it)

Trois Contes, Flaubert

Notes on a Scandal

Little Altars Everywhere (ugh, YES, I loved Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. fine. revoke any good opinion you have of me)

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King (Spiderwick Chronicles rules)

Prep

Henry James, Selected Short Stories

~~The Grapes of Wrath~~

The Golden Bough, Frazer

Henry VIII: The King and His Court (owned this for at least ten years)

~~The Woman in White~~

Dear Fatty, Dawn French

Cranford

First Meetings, Orson Scott Card

Run, Ann Patchett

Elizabeth & Leicester, Gristwood

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