Books You've Always Wanted to Read But Haven't

[Miss Lee]

We've had several threads about the books we're currently reading, but what books do you want to read that you haven't gotten around to yet?

I have a quite a few -- in no particular order:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead also by Ayn Rand
War and Peace by Tolstoy

 

[pippa]

Too many...

My top books to read(eventually):

Middlemarch--George Eliot
Persuasion--Jane Austen
Anything by Virginia Wolfe

 

[Miss Lee]

Oh yeah, Middlemarch is on my list, in fact, I was looking for a hardcover volume at Borders the other day (I don't like paperbacks), but they didn't have onex(

 

[buffettgirl]

Middlemarch is on my list. Anything by Dickens. All I've ever read is Christmas Carol. Moby Dick. Mostly classics that my education never got around to making me read and I'm too lazy to plow through on my own.

 

[TeTe]

Ullyses - James Joyce
Swans Way - Proust
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

[gemgirl]

Breakfast at Tiffanys

 

[Stephanie0523]

I love this thread!
I've got Anna Karinininininina on my bookshelf collecting dust. I'd love to get past page 25.
Also:
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anything Faulkner
The Bible (I've never actually set out to read the entire book)
And all of the Harry Potter books (I'm waiting until my 5-year-old is old enough to read them with me)

 

[Miss Lee]

Stephanie, The Screwtape Letters is fantastic!! It's one of my favorite books. I love C.S. Lewis and I've read several of his books on Christianity. And I just bought my first HP book --

 

[banslug]

OH! I've had my eye on Memoirs of Cleopatra for a VERY LONG TIME now. But at 1000+ pages, I'm a bit afraid!
Gayle

 

[waterlily]

I want to read:

Memoirs of a Geisha
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Water for Elephants
Atlas Shrugged
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Other Boleyn

I went into a bookstore yesterday and saw Atlas Shrugged and it seemed like a really interesting book. However, it was over 2,000 pages long. I don't think I can handle that just yet. Maybe I will get it in December and then try to read it over the next year, 2008.

 

[lainiefig]

War and Peace by Tolstoy--not copying you, Michele; it was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw this thread name! My mother is an English professor and told me this is her favorite book, so I've been meaning to read it...even own it...haven't cracked it open yet.

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky--apparently I have trouble reading Russian novels. My favorite college prof once suggested I read this...I've started it at least 3 times!

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott--been meaning to read something by Scott ever since seeing a monument dedicated to him in Edinburgh.


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[Jennifit]

I've wanted to read more about American history - about the Civil War, Native Americans, etc. I read a biography about JFK and Lincoln and now I am more interested in our country.

 

[Fembot2]

My full list is too long to post, so I'll just put my top ten:
Between Two Worlds-Zainab Salbi
Mists of Avalon
Clan of the Cave Bear-Jean Auel
The Pillars of the Earth-Ken Follett
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette-Carolly Erickson
Kleopatra-Karen Essex
Leonardos Swans-Karen Essex
Water for Elephants
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
Zorro-Isabel Allende

Plus, I've now just added about 15 more book to my list due to "What are you reading now" thread. I think I need to get a PT job at B&N.