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Currently reading (or intending to read)...
- The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
- Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
- The War of the End of the World, by Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Culture of Fear, by Barry Glassner
- Submarine, by Jon Dunthorne
- The Science of Yoga, by William J. Broad
- Design * Sponge at Home, by Grace Bonney
- 無偶之家往事之城, by 陳俊志 (film)
- Works of Love, by Soren Kierkegaard
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, by John F. Callahan
- The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Tristan and Isolde, by Gottfried von Strassburg
- 老殘遊記, by 劉鶚
- The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, ed Baldick
- Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained, by Richard Feynman
- Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell (Media Lens)
- The Search for the Perfect Language, by Umberto Eco
- The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
- I Havn't Unpacked, by William Holt
- The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Journal of Helene Berr, by Helene Berr
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Foreskin's Lament, by Shalmon Auslander
- A case of exploding mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif
- Gigantic Robot, by Tom Gauld
- The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccacio
- Love, Loss and What I Wore, by Ilene Beckman
- The Last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood
What I have just read (or re-read)
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 發條鳥年代記（鵲賊篇）, by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
- Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
- David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- 複眼人, by 吳明益
- Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson
- A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings, by George R. R. Martin
- Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin
- What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn, by Colin Clark
- How to Travel with a Salmon and other Essays, by Umberto Eco
- Labels, by Louis de Bernieres
- The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
- Burmese Days, by George Orwell
- 村上朝日堂是如何鍛鍊的, by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
- Catch me a Colobus, by Gerald Durrell
- What I talk about when I talk about running, by Haruki Murakami
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- The Code Book, by Simon Singh
- At Home, by Bill Bryson
- The Evolutionary Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
- 聽風的歌，by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
- The Temporal Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
- Baudolino, by Umberto Eco
- 稻草人的微笑, by 三毛
- 湯歌劇, by 阿川佐和子 (trans. 王蘊潔）
- The Dreaming Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
- 色 / 戒, by 張愛玲
- The Black Arrow, by R.L.S.
- 爸爸台北／媽媽紐約, by 陳俊志
- The Girl who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
- 傾城之戀, by 張愛玲
- 老師的提包, by 川上弘美
- 價值連城的幸運, by 九把刀
- 巨流河, by 齊邦媛
- 白色惡魔, by 鍾菱
- Essays in Love, by Alain de Botton
- 大江大海一九四九, by 龍應台
- 精準的失控, by 九把刀
- naked economics, by Charles Wheelan
- 84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
- Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- Invictus, by John Carlin
- 我思念的長眠中的南國公主, by 張貴興
- 惡女書, by 陳雪
- 我等不到了, by 余秋雨
- 父後七日, by 劉梓潔
- War & Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- 尋找旋渦貓的方法, by 春上村樹 (賴明珠譯)
- 1Q84 (vol. 3), by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
- 男妲, by 成英姝
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
- 紅粉, by 蘇童
- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Freakonomics, by Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
- Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
- How to be Good, by Nick Hornby
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
- The Nimrod Flipout, by Etgar Keret
- Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein
- A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster
- A man for all seasons, by Robert Bolt
- All Fun & Games Till Someone Loses an Eye, by Christopher Brookmeyer
- Plays: One, by Harold Pinter
- Various Voices: Sixty years of prose, poetry, politics 1948-2008, by Harold Pinter
- The clothes they stood up in, by Alan Bennett
- Writing Home, by Alan Bennett
- 尋羊冒險記, by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
- The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
- 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
- 台北人, by 白先勇
- A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
- The Sacred Art of Stealing, by Christopher Brookmeyer
- Howard's End, by E.M. Forster
- The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett
- The Death of Ivan Illyich and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy
- The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy
- Pigs Have Wings, by P. G. Wodehouse
- Much Obliged, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
- A Special Providence, by Richard Yates
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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