We all have those books we are ashamed of having not read. I posted this on my personal blog a few months ago and thought it would be better placed here, on my new book blog, so I’ve decided to make a revised list. This list is based on my tastes, personality, and general reading life and includes books that I should have read and one point or another and am not quite sure what happened…
Get your gasps ready, because this is going to be scandalous:
- The Iliad/ The Odyssey by Homer – this is a terrible lapse in my education as I know these are basically required reading in every high school…every but mine, apparently
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – I’ve read the first chapter, “Battle Royal,” for 3 different classes (it was published independently several years before the novel), but never the whole novel, go figure
- Literally ANYTHING by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT The Old Man and the Sea, despite Hemingway being one of my dad’s favorite authors
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown – simply because it was so popular at one time. I think I saw the movie once…
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – which I am currently reading, and have no idea how I haven’t read by now Done
- The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglass Adams
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Redwall by Brain Jacques (and here begins several children’s books I failed to read…)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien
- Matilda by Roald Dahl (but I’ve seen the movie!) *slap*
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
If you want to see more of my shame, go over to my Goodreads account and take a look at my “to read” list. The shame…
What’s on your book guilt list?
Rose Read 