My Shelf of Constant Reproach
Submitted by lelumarie on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 20:25
- I've organized this list by author in an attempt to make it more cohesive/ able to review.
- Also, these are only ones that I actually *own* and still just sit on their neatly organized shelf of the bookcase...
- b/c otherwise, this list would be sooo much longer.
- Adams, Douglas
- Every book after the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- (For some reason, I cannot bring myself to do it.)
- Alexie, Sherman
- Indian Killer
- The Toughest Indian in the World
- _(I've been wanting to read Alexie since watching Smoke Signals and just can't.)
- Atwood, Margaret
- Surfacing
- The Robber's Bride
- (Darn you Moxy Fruvous... if it weren't for the song "My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors", I wouldn't care about these.)
- Bradbury, Ray
- Fahrenheit 451
- (I've "gotten the gist" of this one for so long, it seems pointless to read it now.)
- Bronte, Emily
- Wuthering Heights
- (Something about the obsession and forbidden love... saw the movie but now can't bring myself to read it. It seems painful.)
- Clarke, Susanna
- Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- (I told a friend I'd read this book this month... yeeeah, have you seen how thick and ominous this sucker is?)
- Dickens, Charles
- Tale of Two Cities
- Oliver Twist
- Hard Times
- (Dude, I should just give these away. I seriously don't think I'd be able to do it.)
- Hesse, Hermann
- Steppenwolf
- Beneath the Wheel
- Huxley, Aldous
- Antic Hay And The Gioconda Smile
- Brave New World
- (Same reason as Fahrenheit)
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- A Small Place
- Annie John
- (I read an excerpt for class once, and can't imagine reading these now that I've acquired them.)
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Any of the books after A Wrinkle in Time.
- (same reason as Hitchiker's.)
- Lowry, Lois
- Messenger
- Gathering Blue
- (Same reasons as L'Engle and Adams.)
- Morrison, Toni
- The Bluest Eye
- Song of Solomon
- (Saw Beloved and lost interest, but didn't think the movie was bad?)
- Orwell, George
- 1984
- (Same reason as Bradbury and Huxley.)
- Rowling, J.K.
- All of the Harry Potter series
- (I keep making excuses, but the true reason is the thickness of them. Egads, I can't imagine reading a young adult literature books SO BIG. And don't say "it's so good it will go fast" b/c NO.)
- Salinger, J.D.
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and, Seymour
- Franny and Zooey
- Nine Stories
- (Catcher in the Rye ruined it for me; I should have read the others first.)
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Walden and Other Writings
- (Oh, I'm sure fantastic quotes can be found in it about nature... but I can't imagine reading it b/c of the mostly unrelated novel Old Man and the Sea)
- Voigt, Cynthia
- The Tillerman series
- (I don't have the whole thing yet, but just the same, I just have this feeling I'm going to hate it... but should read it b/c of my teaching stuff.)
- Wharton, Edith
- The House of Mirth
- (Meh. I think it's her name. hah!)
- There are so many others that are not in my personal library that I've stayed away from. A snippet: Tolstoy, Tolkien, Faulkner, Steinbeck... not to mention some of the younger crowd books...! Another time, another library acquisition. haha
This is the NPR article from which inspiration for this list occurred:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/06/the_shelf_of_constant_reproac...