Mayday! Mayday!

 You know that jar of coffee you thought was on the bookcase? You've either moved it to a more sensible place or you've drunk it all. Or you're thinking of a bookshelf at work. Ok, videoshelf. Video and the odd DVD shelf.

There's some real coffee in the freezer. And a new packet of it... somewhere...

Mayday! Maydar!

Caffeine defficiency in progress!

1000 Books the Guardian says Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation

Read, unfinished, hated

Look - Thomas Love Peacock. 134 titles? Have I missed something? There was odd formatting with ff s and fi s. I've read 16.

Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Martin Amis, London Fields (1989)
Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935)
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953)
Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie Humaine (1830-1848)
Miklos Banffy, They Were Counted (1934)
Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving (1960)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko or The Royal Slave (1688)
Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger (1910)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929)
John Braine, Room at the Top (1957)
André Brink, A Dry White Season (1979)
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849)
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980)
AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road (1932)
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World (1949)
Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! (1994)
JM Coetzee, Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (1995)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Don DeLillo, Underwold (1997)
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-53)
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848)
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1855-57)
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays (1970)
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil or The Two Nations (1845)
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
EL Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1971)
John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (1930-36)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868)
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1953)
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education (1869)
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (1896)
Richard Ford, Independence Day (1996)
EM Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001)
William Gaddis, The Recognitions (1955)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (1853)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855)
André Gide, The Counterfeiters (1925)
George Gissing, The Odd Women (1893)
George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891)
Nadine Gordimer, July's People (1981)
Maxim Gorky, Mother (1906)
Alasdair Gray, Lanark (1981)
Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole (1933)
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave (1968)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004)
Winifred Holtby, South Riding (1936)
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone (1971)
James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958)
Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter (1947)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (1950)
Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry (1927)
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920)
Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners (1959)
Mary McCarthy, The Group (1963)
John McGahern, Amongst Women (1990)
Joaquim Maria, Machado de Assis
Julian Maclaren-Ross, Of Love and Hunger (1947)
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (1993)
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924)
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (1827)
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami (1885)
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995)
Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference (1929)
VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River (1979)
Frank Norris, McTeague (1899)
Andrew O'Hagan, Personality (2003)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ragazzi (1955)
Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)
Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfire (1949)
Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall (1816)
David Peace, GB84 (2004)
Anthony Powell, Afternoon Men (1931)
Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March (1932)
Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997)
Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own (1966)
Paul Scott, Staying On (1977)
Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Ousmane Sembène, God's Bit of Wood (1960)
Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1950)
Lao She, Rickshaw Boy (1936)
Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1958)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper (1936)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Stendhal:The Red and the Black (1830)
David Storey, This Sporting Life (1960)
August Strindberg, The Red Room (1879)
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World (1916)
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914)
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
John Updike, Couples (1968)
Vassilis Vassilikos, Z (1967)
Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar (1959)
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993)
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918)
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Émile Zola, Germinal (1885)
Émile Zola, La Bête Humaine (1890)