To-read or Not To-read? That is My Nonsensical Title

Over the past few weeks I've been meaning to compose a list of books I hope to read as soon as I'm able. Unfortunately I'll probably not be able to read most of the books on the list unless I already own them as I can't afford to buy anything at the moment – a very common side effect of not having a penny to your name – let alone heaps of books. I've listed each book under it's author and have written the title of those books I already own but haven't read yet in green text. The list is extensive, and I've had to force myself to stop adding to it for the time being as there are just so many books out there I'd like to read that I could go on adding to the list for days! As I finish reading each book on the list I'll update it by striking it's title out so that everybody will be able to see the progress I've made. Also, look for my latest additions to the list in bold red text, and the book I'm currently reading in bold blue! Finally, books which I "own" in eBook form will be in bold purple text and shall remain highlighted in purple text until I own a physical copy. To signify if I am currently reading an eBook I will instead change the colour of the date I started reading the book to blue rather than changing the title of the book to blue. So, without further ado, my To-read list:

Andrew Davidson

• The Gargoyle

Alexandre Dumas, père

• The Count of Monte Cristo

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• Infidel
• Nomad
  

Barack Obama

• Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Bertrand M. Patenaude

• Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary

Brian Mulroney

• Memoirs: 1939–1993

Carolyn Jessop

• Escape
• Triumph
  

Cassandra Clare

The Mortal Instruments

1. City of Bones (Started: Fri., Feb. 5, '10 – Finished: Mon., Feb. 8, '10)
2. City of Ashes (Started: Wed., Feb. 17, '10 — Finished: Sat., Feb. 20, '10)
   
3. City of Glass (Started: Wed., Feb. 24, '10 — Finished: Mon., Mar. 1, '10)
4. City of Fallen Angles (Started: Mon., Apr. 18, '11 – Finished: Thurs., Apr. 28, '11)

The Infernal Devices

1. Clockwork Angel (Started Tues., Aug. 31, '10 – Finished: Sat., Sept. 4, '10)
2. Clockwork Prince (Publishing Date To Be Announced)
3. Clockwork Princess (Publishing Date To Be Announced)

Charlaine HarrisThe Southern Vampire Mysteries

1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
5. Dead as a Doornail
6. Definitely Dead
7. Altogether Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
9. Dead and Gone
10. Dead in the Family

Charles Dickens

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Great Expectations (Started: Sun., Sept. 20, '09 – Finished: Mon., Sept. 28, '09)
  
• Hard Times

Charles P. Pierce

• Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in The Land of the Free

Christopher Hitchens

• God is NOT Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Started: Thurs., Feb. 12, '10 – Finished: Tues., Feb. 16, '10)
• Hitch-22: A Memoir
  

Christopher Paolini

• Inheritance (Started: Tues., 8 Nov., '11 — Finished: Fri., 18 Nov., '11)

Cormac McCarthy

• The Road (Started: Mon., Feb. 8, '10 – Finished: Tues., Feb. 9, '10)

C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia

• The Last Battle (Started and finished: Tues., Sept. 15, '09)

Dan Brown

• The Lost Symbol (Started: Wed., Sept. 16, '09 – Finished: Sat., Sept. 19, '09)

Dan Dancocks

• Spearhead to Victory

Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Dover Publications

• The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

Edgar Allan Poe

• (Various works)

Fred Doucette

• Empty Casing: A Soldier's Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege

Fritjof Capra

• The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance (Started: Mon., Sept. 20, '10 at 22:40 – Finished: )

George G. Blackburn

• The Guns of Victory: A Soldier's Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1944–45

George Orwell

• 1984 (Started: Tues., Mar. 16, '10 – Finished: Wed., Apr. 15, '10)
• Animal Farm (Started Fri., Mar. 19, '11 – Finished: Sat., Mar. 26, '11)

George R.R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire Series

1. A Game of Thrones (Started: Mon., 21 Nov., '11 — Finished: Mon., 06 Aug., '12)
2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords
4. A Feast for Crows
5. A Dance with Dragons

Guy Walters

• Hunting Evil

Harper Lee

• To Kill a Mockingbird (Started: Fri., Apr. 16, '10 – Finished: Fri., Apr. 30, '10)

Helen Rapaport

• Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Jack London

• 40 Short Stories
• Sea-Wolf, The
• White Fang

Jane Austen

• Emma
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice (Started: Thurs., Oct. 29, '09 – Finished: Tues., Jan. 12, '10)

Jean Chrétien

• My Years as Prime Minister

Jeff Sharlet

• The Family

John English

• Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 (Started: Sat., Sept. 4, '10 – Finished: Tues., Sept. 14, '10)

John Ferling

• The Assent of George Washington

John Milton

• Paradise Lost (Started: Sun., 7 Aug., '11 — Finished: Fri., 13 Jan., '12)

Jon Anderson

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Jon Meacham

• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún

Jung Chang & Jon Halliday

• Mao: The Unknown Story

Karl Marx & Fredrich Eagles

• The Communist Manifesto (Started: Wed., 3 Aug., '11 — Finished: Thurs., 4 Aug., '11)

Kevin Patterson & Jane Warren

• Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of It's Participants (Started: Thurs., Oct. 8, '09 – Finished: Sat., Oct. 17, '09)

Mark Twain

• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography
• Prince and the Pauper, The
• Roughing It

Markus Zusak

• The Book Thief

Mark Zuehlke

• On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands

Max Hastings

• Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

Michael Shelden

• Mark Twain: Man in White (Started: Fri., Mar. 25, '11 – Finished: Mon., Apr. 18, '11)

Miranda Carter

• George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Started: Fri., May 21, '10 – Finished: Tues., Jun. 1, '10)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Scarlet Letter (Started: Sat., May 1, '10 – Finished: Thurs., May 20, '10)

Ray Wiss

• FOB Doc: A Doctor On the Front Lines in Afghanistan

Rex Murphy

• Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

Richard Dawkins

• Ancestors Tale, The (Started: Tue., 17 May, '11 – Finished: Sun., 7 Aug., '11)
• Blind Watchmaker, The
• Climbing Mount Improbable
• Greatest Show of Earth, The (Started: Wed., Jan. 13, '10 – Finished: Fri., Feb. 5, '10)
• Selfish Gene, The (Started: Wed., Aug. 11, '10 – Finished: Tues., Aug. 31, '10)
• Unweaving the Rainbow

Rick Hillier

• A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War

Rick Mercer

• Rick Mercer Report: The Book (Started: Sat., Sept. 18, '10 – Finished: Mon., Sept. 20, '10)
  

Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Olympians

1. The Lightning Thief (Started: Fri. 6 May, '11 – Finished: Tue. 17 May, '11)
2. The Sea Monsters
3. The Titan's Curse
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth
5. The Last Olympian

Robert Service

• Trotsky: A Biography (Started: Thurs., Jun. 3, '10 — Finished: Wed., Aug. 11, '10)

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Kidnapped
• Master of Ballantrae, The

Seth Grahame-Smith

• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Simon Sebag Montefiore

• Young Stalin (Started: Sun., Oct. 18, '09 – Finished Tue., Oct. 27, '09)
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Sir Richard F. Burton (Translation)

• Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night

S.J. Parris

• Heresy

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight Series

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn

Stuart McLean

• Extreme Vinyl Café

Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Trilogy

1. The Hunger Games (Started: Tues., Sept. 14, '10 – Finished: Sat., Sept. 18, '10)
   
2. Catching Fire (Started: ?, Jan. (Maybe) ?, '11 – Finished: Fri., Mar. 19, '11)
3. Mockingjay (Started: Thurs., Apr. 28, '11 – Finished: Fri. May 6, '11)

Thomson Gale

• Einstein: His Life and Universe

Tim Cook

1. At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914–1916
2. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918

Tony Blair

• A Journey: My Political Life

William L. Shirer

• Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Look for updates to the list in the future!