Hi! I’m Amanda, in case I haven’t met some of you. My tumblr blog is here: amandine.
These are all the unread books I have on my bookshelves that I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten around to yet, for whatever reason. I put asterisks next to the ones I’ve already started.
Here they are, in no particular order:
- Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable—Samuel Beckett
- The Complete Stories—Flannery O’Connor*
- The Collected Stories—Amy Hempel*
- The Inheritance of Loss—Kiran Desai*
- Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky*
- Norwegian Wood—Murakami*
- Kafka on the Shore—Murakami*
- Gravity’s Rainbow—Thomas Pynchon
- Madame Bovary—Flaubert
- Dead Souls—Nikolai Gogol
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter—Carson McCullers
- What is the What—Dave Eggers
- Never Let Me Go—Kazuo Ishiguro
- Snow—Orhan Pamuk*
- Hegemony or Survival—Noam Chomsky
- Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide—Prunier
- The Children’s Hospital—Chris Adrian
- Madeleine is Sleeping—Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
- Underworld—Don DeLillo
- Of Human Bondage—W. Somerset Maughan
I’m almost done with the two Murakami books I put on this list, but I included them anyway, partly so I can feel a sense of accomplishment when I inevitably cross them off the list next week, and partly as a reminder that another goal of mine is to read every novel by Murakami, since I think he’s amazing and I am hooked.
I noticed that a couple of other people are reading Crime and Punishment and Underworld. Those are two books I’ve owned forever, and am ashamed that I haven’t actually read. We should read them around the same time and post our thoughts, or something.
