All I want for Xmas. . .

In thinking about Tim's comment on my last post, I realized that I was comparing the thirty or so fiction titles on NYT's 2005 Notable Books list with the thirty or so titles from recent Western literature that I really want to add to my bookshelf. In all fairness (and because I love making lists), I decided that I should share those titles with you, divided into neat subcategories.

The five Penguin Classics I really want

• Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  
• Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
  
• William Faulkner, The Portable Faulkner (Malcom Cowley, ed.)
  
• August Strindberg, Three Plays
  
• Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts and Other Plays
  

The five Library of America volumes I really want

• Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1913-1920
  
• Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1920-1931
  
• William Faulkner, Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon
  
• William Faulkner, Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet
  
• William Faulkner, Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable
  

The five new-ish novels I really want

• Colm Toibin, The Master
  
• Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
  
• David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
  
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
  
• Zadie Smith, White Teeth
  

(More to come.)