Please, someone tell me that I’m not the only person who alleviates boredom by running through my “To Be Read” list… or gets inordinately excited about checking books off.  Seriously, any other booknerds out there?  Anyone?  Bueller?

In this digital age, my current TBR list resides, in part, on Goodreads… but the main list is on two sheets of lined paper that live in my purse, because I’m old school that way.  Here, in no particular order, are the books on my “main TBR” list.

THE NAME OF THE ROSE, by Umberto Eco
FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM, by Umberto Eco
BAUDOLINO, by Umberto Eco
FRENCH LESSONS, by Peter Mayle
THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT, by Sarah Vowell
CROME YELLOW, by Aldous Huxley
THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, by Katherine Howe
PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA, by Peter Carey
AUNTS AREN’T GENTLEMEN, by P.G. Wodehouse
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, by Charles Dickens
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Charles Dickens
UNFAMILIAR FISHES, by Sarah Vowell
CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, by Boris Pasternak
EUGENE ONEGIN, by Alexander Pushkin
DEAD SOULS, by Nikolai Gogol (this would be a re-read)
THE HOBBIT, by J.R.R. Tolkein
THE DEAN’S DECEMBER, by Saul Bellow
MIDDLEMARCH, by George Eliot
LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES, by Choderlos de Laclos
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, by Erik Larson
THE BOOK THIEF, by Marcus Zusak
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, by E.M. Forster
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, by E.M. Forster
DIMANCHE, by Irene Nemirovsky
YEAR OF WONDERS, by Geraldine Brooks
THE RAZOR’S EDGE, by W. Somerset Maugham
THE CANTERBURY TALES, by Geoffrey Chaucer
MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides
THE MARRIAGE PLOT, by Jeffrey Eugenides
SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov
LES MISERABLES, by Victor Hugo (another re-read)
THE GOOD EARTH, by Pearl S. Buck (another re-read)
VANITY FAIR, by William Makepeace Thackeray
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES, by Thomas Hardy (another re-read)
THE CAIRO TRILOGY, by Naguib Mahfouz
SWANN’S WAY, by Marcel Proust
BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by Richard Russo
THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN, by Kate Morton
TWELFTH NIGHT, by William Shakespeare
ALIAS GRACE, by Margaret Atwood
BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley
PEYTON PLACE, by Grace Metalious
WE, THE DROWNED, by Carsten Jensen
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, by Julie Orringer
METAMORPHOSES, by Ovid
THE DIVINE COMEDY, by Dante
BLEAK HOUSE, by Charles Dickens
TOM JONES, by Henry Fielding

Ridiculous, no?  That’s not even counting the books I’ve checked off since putting this particular list on paper.  Eeks.  And, yeah, this list is fluid.  Things get checked off and added all the time – and my Goodreads list has selections that aren’t on here (and vice versa).  Oh, and I’ve been known to read books that don’t appear anywhere on either list, just on a whim.  Think I’ll be busy in 2012?

What’s on your TBR list?