I have many books I want to read, but I never seem to get around to them. There’s always another book that jumps its place in the queue and I read it first. Doesn’t help that I’m in a monthly book club and that takes 1/3 of my reading time (I typically have Audible, Kindle, and physical books on the go concurrently).
It’s gotten to the point that unless I rate a book “Stop the world so I can read this right now”, I can’t buy it, as I know I’ll never get around to reading it if it’s only rated “well, that looks interesting”.
What are the books on your To Be Read lists?
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In no particular order, my list includes, but isn’t limited to:
Trust, Hernan Diaz
I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai
The Twyford Code, Janice Hallett
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Paris, Edward Rutherford
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
by Mischief_Girl
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I got a giant hardcover set of the Bourne trilogy. I love the movies, I’ve read le carre books before so I should like the genre, but they’re so huge and I just always seem to have something to read before. Also there’s 3 so it feels like a bigger undertaking than just one book. I’ve had them on my shelf for like a year and half now lol
Any book that is over 500 pages long. I’ve been staring down my Brothers Karamazov copy for months.
I have tons of nonfiction books that I want to read. The problem is I have never been able to get through one. I can sometimes read fiction cover to cover in one sitting but nonfiction I end up reading the first chapter and putting it down almost every time.
i plead the fith on this, in that it will reveal how many books i have not read