Top Ten Tuesday: Flashback
I chose TTT #10: Ten Books I Can't Believe I've Never Read
10. Don DeLillo, Underworld: DeLillo is one of my favorite writers, but I can't seem to finish his beastly masterpiece. I've started and stopped twice. One day I will conquer it.9. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights: I keep putting this on challenge lists and then not reading it.
8.William Golding, Lord of the Flies: I feel like most people read this in school, but somehow, like The Great Gatsby which I have since read, I skipped over it.7. Anything by David Foster Wallace: As someone who studied postmodern theory and American Literature in graduate school, I feel like I should have already tackled Infinite Jest, but I haven't read anything by DFW at all except for a few essays.
6. Kite Runner, Water for Elephants, Life of Pi: There is a whole slew of extremely popular books that I missed the boat on when they came out. I was reading a lot of assigned books at the time.
5. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey: This is something else that I think I should have had to tackle at some point in my education, but I didn't, and so I haven't read them. I didn't have to take a Shakespeare class either, but I did read plenty of that. 4. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield: I've read lots of Dickens, but I just didn't have the energy for this one in my Dickens/Eliot class. I think we even had two weeks to read it, but I didn't make it.
3. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams: Again, this is one that I feel like I should have prioritized as a student. I studied Freud, but never his most-read book.
2.Anything by Jane Austen except for Pride and Prejudice: I think I pretend sometimes that I have read others, but nope.
1. Harry Potter books 2-7.
Great list! I hope you get around to many of these books one of these days; Jane Austen's works are <3 I read P&P in high school but never got around to her other books until university; I just gobbled them up so to speak xP
ReplyDeleteI have yet to get around to DeLillo's works. One of these days...
Here's my Top Ten for this week =)
It's cool - I've never read those either. Except I haven't read ANY HP books. Or seen the movies. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteI picked Top Ten Books That Broke My Heart:
http://theirishbanana.blogspot.com/2012/10/top-ten-tuesday-8.html
I've read a couple of Austen novels but some were so long ago I don't really remember them, I only remember P&P and Emma. I need to re-read most of her books.
ReplyDeleteMy husband keeps bugging to read Underworld but seriously, the SIZE of that thing!
Other than Jane Austen and Homer, I haven't read any of these books either. And to be honest, I liked the Wishbone versions of Homer's books better. :D
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: http://shelversanon.blogspot.com/2012/10/top-10-tuesday-rewind-top-ten-bookish.html