Top Ten Books I Can't Believe I Haven't Read
I am interpreting this as "Authors I Can't Believe I Haven't Read" … except for the last two because the shame degree is truly sky-high. You will see what I mean.
At any rate, here are seven authors that I am deeply ashamed to say I have read nothing by. Nothing. Not. One. Thing. (I have works by many of these fine writers waiting for me on my shelves, though!)
Eight authors I find it almost inconceivable that I have never read:
Joyce Carol Oates
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
Alice Munro
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Saul Bellow
and
Chinua Achebe
And, to top it off, two books that truly alarm me every time I contemplate that I have not read them:
A Farewell to Arms
and
The Catcher in the Rye
oof. That's it for today, folks. I will be back on Wednesday with a links roundup and then, if you're still speaking to me, back again on Friday with a book review!
I hated A Farewell to Arms, and find Hemingway extremely overrated. I've enjoyed his short stories, but that beyond-Spartan writing style doesn't work for me when stretched to over 200 pages.
ReplyDeleteI really loved A Moveable Feast, so I'm wanting to read more of his other stuff. I might go to the shorts next, instead....but I actually started AFtA and was enjoying it so...maybe?
DeleteI haven't read any Faulkner either and I find it incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteHere's my Top Ten!
I've read the catcher and the rye and it was amazing i hope you enjoy it too.
ReplyDeleteMy Top Ten Tuesday!