TTT: Books I Can't Believe I've Never Read

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Can't Believe I've Never Read

There are so many books I want to read, meant to read, know I should read. But there are also those new books which like to shove the old books on the shelf and call for my attention. Here are a few books I really, really want to read and must make a top priority:

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

I bought the book when I was in 7th grade at a Scholastic Book Fair. I still own and have been carting it around with me for sixty years. This goes to the top of the list.

2. Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Years ago when I was a newbie blogger I won a prize which was a CD-Audiobook of Dracula. At the time I still listened to audiobook CDs in my car when I drove to work. I should have listened to it right away because now I don't have a CD-player anymore and so the set is obsolete to me. I'm sure I can get it on Libby from my library. Another book I need to wipe off my list soon.

3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

I am still working away on my original Classics Club list. The original 50 books somehow morphed into a list of 180 books. I've chipped away at that list for years and am now down to under 30 remaining titles. I am not allowing myself to add any new books to it until I have completed the dang thing. Don Quixote has scared me for years so I have put off reading it. Last year I bought a paperback copy of it thinking I would read it if I owned a copy. It hasn't happened yet. 

4. The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Another book I own, purchased at a used book store no longer in business. I read A Study in Scarlet a few years back, which was the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to the world, and I wasn't as entralled as I expected to be, so I keep passing over this one. 

5. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

I made a halfhearted promise to myself that I would read this classic this year since it is 100 years old, published in 1926. Well, the year is almost half over and I still haven't read it or made plans to do so.

6. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

Years ago. Let's say 30 years ago, everyone was reading this book and my mother, a rabid reader, raved about it. Everytime we were together she would talk about this or that related to the book. Somehow I ended up with a copy of it and I've been moving it around from room to room ever since, never even cracking it open. Why do I do that, keep books for such a long time without reading them? Clearly this book screams out to me all the time, "Read me! Read me!"

7. White Teeth by Zadie Smith.

I read 100 pages of this modern classic, set it aside, and never got back to it. Now it keeps showing up in "best books" lists and I know I should go back and try again.

8. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Another book that has been on my TRB forever.

9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

This children's classic is well known because of the movies but I've never read the actual book.

10. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

A few years ago I purchased the audio version of this popular book. I've never listened to it. In fact, I forgot all about it until I was messing around with my Audible account and noticed it just the other day.