It’s probably a couple hundred items long. I have a worrying tendency to get more books than I have time to read – everything from classic sci-fi to chemistry textbooks (yes, I plan eventually to snuggle up with a mug of cocoa and read about valence shells and chemical reactions, I’m trying to make up for my awful college chem classes that I’ve blocked most memories of) to Dickens to the Thousand and One Nights and more.
I’m reading Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames right now, and it’s excellent.
Only a couple of hundred ? 
Calvin’s Commentary on Daniel
The Children of Hurin (the “new” Tolkien)
Most of the “History of Middle Earth” series
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Walter Miller’s “A Canticle for Leibowitz”
Chang & Halliday’s life of Mao
Randall Zachmann’s “The Assurance of Faith”
Philip Mansel, “Constantinople”
Caroline Finkel, “Osman’s Dream”
Bultmann’s Commentary on John
Barth’s Church Dogmatics
St. Athanasius on the Incarnation
St. Irenaeus Against Heresies
“The Case Against Q”
“Free From All Error”
The anti-Pelagian writings of St. Augustine
Luther’s Commentary on Galatians
“An Antonio Gramsci Reader”
Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy
If I read all the books I hoped to, I would have little time for anything else. I have just finished reading “The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner” - which, despite the title, is a (19th-century) psychological novel: & a gripping one at that. (“Osman’s Dream” is a history of Ottoman Turkey from 1300 to 1923.)
Just now I am reading:
- Luther’s “On the Bondage of the Will”
- Thomas Boston’s “Human Nature in its Fourfold State”
Time for something Catholic, perhaps - like “The Catholic Controversy”, by St. Francis de Sales.
I always have to avoid the temptation of reading ahead on my own too, since that would be sort of like cheating on my kids I think. I know they agree. It’s more fun to read it for the first time together.
