Why doesn't this list get any shorter?

The "to read" shelf of my bookcase, that is. No matter how many books I read the list never gets smaller. I can only assume that my books are now interbreeding and multiplying of their own accord. I may never have to buy another book ever again

No, I do know the reason: Packing up my stuff when I moved revealed a whole bunch of unread tomes that I had long forgotten about, cunningly hidden away behind all the books I had read, waiting patiently, stifling giggles, for the day when I'd unearth them and they could pounce on me shouting, "Ha ha! Thought you'd caught up on your reading? No chance, pal. You still have us to get through yet. Hahahaha!"

Cheeky bastards.

Having said that, there are those books that I am well aware have been sitting there tapping their feet, examining their nails and huffing loudly for ages.

This, then, is what my never-diminishing "to read" pile currently looks like (and any longstanding readers of this blog will probably recognise half of it):

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now by William H. Calvin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Luis Bunuel: New Readings by Peter William Evans
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
Plays And Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Other Voices by Andrew Humphrey
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Amerika by Franz Kafka
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays, 1980-95 by Tom Paulin
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel: Anthology of Shorter Fiction by Kay Sexton, Lucy Fry & Heidi James
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Major Works by Jonathan Swift
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson
Three Things About Me by Aliya Whiteley
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola

I'm currently reading The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick which is proving to be reliably bonkers.