Booking Through Thursday (38)

March 5, 2009

Today’s guilt-ridden meme:

We’ve all seen the lists, we’ve all thought, “I should really read that someday,” but for all of us, there are still books on “The List” that we haven’t actually gotten around to reading. Even though we know they’re fabulous. Even though we know that we’ll like them. Or that we’ll learn from them. Or just that they’re supposed to be worthy. We just … haven’t gotten around to them yet.

What’s the best book that YOU haven’t read yet?

Obviously, this list is, in actuality, excessively long, but here are a few of the “best books” I hope to get to this year:

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Iliad, by Homer
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

What “best books” are you hoping to read this year?

Tagged as: BTT

{ 10 comments }

1 Bluestocking March 6, 2009 at 1:54 pm: Sense & Sensibility is awesome.
2 Loren Eaton March 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm: The Road is on my list, as are Ed McBain’s Learning To Kill and Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and a few others. I might actually get them done, too.

Oh, and I agree: Sense and Sensibility is great.
3 blake March 6, 2009 at 5:16 pm: Blindness should be on this list too. READ THE ROAD.
4 Dr. Blondie March 6, 2009 at 6:32 pm: I agree that you should read The Road! That book was one of my favorite reads of 2008. I definitely want to read Atonement this year.
5 Tina Kubala March 6, 2009 at 9:05 pm: I’ve got a copy of The Iliad at a yard sale. I honestly don’t know if I’m going to read it. Maybe if I can take a class where it is discussed. Otherwise, it looks smart on the shelf.
6 Aimee March 6, 2009 at 10:41 pm: I didn’t necessarily think The Road was that great, but I do think you should read Atonement and The Iliad :)
7 Natasha @ Maw Books March 7, 2009 at 10:53 pm: I just finished The Hunger Games and it was FANTASTIC. I also have Atonement sitting here waiting for me that *cough* I won from you.
8 Toni March 8, 2009 at 11:34 am: I haven’t read Atonement (shock!) or War and Peace. I think they need to be added. I remember by Humanities teacher saying “everyone owes it to their self to read it.” I can’t believe I have read more of the Bronte sisters and (Gasp) Jane Austin.
9 S. Krishna March 9, 2009 at 8:01 pm: The Iliad is one of my favorite books of all time! I really love it, I hate how it’s often ignored in favor of The Odyssey.
10 Claire March 12, 2009 at 5:13 pm: I have yet to read The Catcher in the Rye. I hang my head in shame every time I think of that.