I have an alarming collection of books that need attention, strewn all over the house. I’m pretty sure they just multiply when my back is turned. Here is a sampling of some of the books that I have purchased over the years that I have never actually gotten around to reading.
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Ann Aguirre – Grimspace series
Richard Bachman (Stephen King) – The Running Man
Leigh Bardugo – Shadow and Bone
L. Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Holly Black/Cecil Castellucci – Geektastic
Katherine Boo – Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Ann Brashares – My Name is Memory
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
Pierce Brown – Golden Son
Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
Kresley Cole – Poison Princess
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
James Dashner – The Eye of Minds
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
Clarissa Pinkola Estes – Women Who Run With the Wolves
Janet Evanovich – One for the Money
Timothy Findley – Headhunter
Gillian Flynn – Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn – Dark Places
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Neil Gaiman – Coraline
Robert Galbraith – The Cuckoo’s Calling
Robert Galbraith – The Silkworm
John Green – Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines, The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson Will Grayson
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Daniel Handler – Why We Broke Up
Charlie Higson – The Enemy
John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jessica Khoury – Origin
Stephen King – The Shining
Mick LaSalle – Complicated Women (Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood)
Tobsha Learner – Soul
H.P. Lovecraft – At the Mountain of Madness
Lois Lowry – The Giver
Tahereh Mafi – Shatter Me series
Drew Magary – The Postmortal
Kimberly McCreight – Reconstructing Amelia
Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus
Kate Morton – The Secret Keeper
Haruki Murakami – Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Patrick Ness – More Than This
Caragh M. O’Brien – Birthmarked
George Orwell – 1984
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
Ron Rash – The Cove
Nancy Richler – The Imposter Bride
Ransom Riggs – Hollow City
Veronica Rossi – Under the Never Sky
J. K. Rowling – The Casual Vacancy
Gretchen Rubin – The Happiness Project
Hiroshi Sakurazaka – All you need is kill
Dan Savage – American Savage
David Sedaris – Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls
Ruta Sepetys – Between Shades of Gray
Lisa Scottoline – Think Twice
Joann Sfar – The Little Prince (Graphic Novel)
Neal Shusterman – Unwind/UnWholly
Jessica Spotswood – Born Wicked
Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped
Rob Thomas – The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
Amy Tintera – Reboot
Amy Tintera – Rebel
Jeff Vandermeer – Annihilation
Jeff Vandermeer – Authority
Natasha Walter – Living Dolls (The Return of Sexism)
Dan Wells – Partials
H. G. Wells – The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells – The Time Machine
Naomi Wolf – Vagina
Rick Yancey – The 5th Wave
Have you read any of these? Let me know what you thought!
These are great! A large percentage of them are either on my TBR bookcase – Rebecca, The Secret Keeper, The Happiness Project, or I’ve read them… and liked some of them. Didn’t love Owen Meany but can appreciate why others do. I sighed a large sigh of relief when I finished 1984 (took me 5 tries!) LOVED The Night Circus.
Awesome list.
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Thanks (: I think I’ve acquired a few gems over the years, but the pile never seems to go down! I’ve given 1984 a couple of tries, myself, and I think I’ve realized I like the idea of it more than the actual reality. My Goodreads wishlist is absurdly huge, so I had to limit my bookshelf to the stuff I already own.
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Oh Coraline is brilliant! Absolutely love the film too. Have you read anything by Gillian Flynn yet? I’ve just finished Gone Girl and really enjoyed it. Haven’t read Dark Places yet and not sure about Sharp Objects- apparently it’s meant to be really twisted :/
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Omg yes!! I adored Gone Girl, but it was supremely disturbing. I don’t want to accept that people can be so twisted. I picked up Dark Places the last time I was at the bookstore, but I haven’t started it yet. I heard that Dark Places and Sharp Objects aren’t as good as Gone Girl, but if they’re just a fraction as engrossing I think they’re worth a read.
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