Ok, here’s one: What’s a book have you always wanted to read, yet somehow never read? For me, it’s the original Winnie the Pooh stories.
Ok, here’s one:
What’s a book have you always wanted to read, yet somehow never read?
For me, it’s the original Winnie the Pooh stories.
Anna Karenina
Dorian Grey
Worth a read especially if you like weird. Then read Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore.
Anything by Christopher Moore!
Omg yes, I love Christopher Moore!
Love Christopher Moore!! Lamb and Secondhand Souls are my favorites!
Loved Lamb!!
A Dirty Job was my first audiobook. Then read Lamb and Secondhand Souls and loved those too!
The reason I mentioned Christopher Moore is because in Sacre Bleu, the main characters live off energy stored in paintings similar to Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde even makes a cameo in the book.
Pride and prejudice
If you are going to read an Austen novel, Persuasion is my favorite.
@Kristi Me too!
To Kill a Mockingbird. A friend started reading it with her daughter, I bought a copy, and I was going to read with them, but then my kids started reading The Hobbit (which I also hadn’t read) so I switched books. Now my boys are reading The Diary of Anne Frank and since I’ve never read that either, that might be next.
The Lord of the Rings books. Love the Hobbit, never could make it thru the trilogy despite absolutely loving the movies. I’ve obsessively watched them over the years right down to every second of bonus commentary and special features… but the first book bored me to tears ?
I just read The Hobbit with my 14 year olds, and it really seemed like it was geared more toward 8-10 year olds.
@Kristi I work in a bookstore and it always winds up on a reading list for high school kids. It’s been a long time since I last read it – I guess it could easily read that young. It’s really just an adventure story of sorts. Interesting that they keep giving it to high schoolers to read lol
I love The Hobbit, but couldn’t bear the Lord of the Rings books. They take so long for anything to happen.
I have read all the LOTR books and the Hobbit. But LOTR is difficult. Then I tried to read the History of Middle Earth books and The silmarillion and… no. Just no. The Silmarillion requires family tree mapping software to keep track of the three hundred elves with complicated names.
@Kelsey oh no, who has that kind of patience?! ?
@Jamie certainly not me!! My sister actually did read the Silmarillion in its entirety… I purchased all 9 of the History books and made it through the first one.
I have heard that LOTR in single book form (it’s about 1500 pages) is a good one to take if you have to do jail time…
@Kelsey it is still a consistent seller at the bookstore I work in. We always have tons of copies of the single books – hardly ever can keep the one volume in stock. Lol
LOOOOOOVE the movies! I’ve always wondered how they measure up to the books. I think I’ll stick with the films based on these comments. Visiting the Shire is on my bucket list!
@Debbie The Hobbit movies were awful compared to the book. But the LOTR movies are some of my favorites.
@Tammy I’m one of the few who enjoyed the Hobbit movies also. They weren’t as good as LOTR and they didn’t follow the book, but they were enjoyable.
I liked the last one best. I just love The Hobbit so much it was hard for me to not be super critical of the movies. I was so disappointed since the other movies were so well done.
@Tammy I think most people agree with you! I just love how Peter Jackson goes all out with his behind the scenes stuff and special features. And I enjoyed the cast quite a lot.
I tried and failed to read Infinite Jest. Someday…
The Handmaid’s Tale
Claire Danes reads this on Audible— it’s great!
Mere Christianity
Wonderful book.
Anne of Green Gables
I didn’t read the Anne of Green Gables series until I was an adult, but I love them and I have now read the series several times.
❤❤
Little House on the Prairie
I want to read the Bell Jar because it was a gift from my late brother but I’ve never gotten past a few chapters.
Anna Karenina
Me too!
So many! I took AP Lit in HS but I feel like there were so many classics I missed out on. Jane Austen books and Fahrenheit 451 are perpetually on my to-read list.
I had to read Fahrenheit 451. I remember being ok with it, but it wasn’t a favorite. The thing that stuck with me was that there were only 3 parts/chapters to the book, so I couldn’t easily pull off “I’ll stop after this chapter.”
The classic romance novels. I just can’t read old English.
The outlander series. I hear it is great….but i just cant seem to get into it.
The Count of Monte Cristo – never got a chance to get into reading it
The wizard of oz. I’ve started it a few times but have never finished it.
I read them when I was young. I liked Ozma of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz better than the Wizard of Oz.
Pride and prejudice
The Betsy Tacey series by Maude Hart Lovelace with illustrations by Lois Linski.
I was supposed to read All the Pretty Horses for a class in college and didn’t do it. I’ve always said I would get around to it. 18 years later… I don’t even know if it’s any good, but someday!
Emma by Jane Austen-I even have it on my kindle but I still haven’t gotten around to it
Harry Potter series. I need to understand the memes ?
Same. I’ve seen all the movies and I teach 5th grade. My class is always shocked that I never read them.
I did these on audio books from my library (CDs not an app) except for the last one. I felt like I should do that one “the old fashioned way” for some reason.
Yes, me too!
I made that my mission this year. Just finishing up book 2 and loving them!
A Confederacy of Dunces.
I hated it. Still do. I may be the only one
Through the Looking Glass
Mary Poppins.
So good! Way more going on than in the movie
Any Tolkien. Wasn’t into that genre when everyone else was reading them. Have never watched the LOTR movies, either, so at least I’m consistent!
Start with The Hobbit. It’s wonderful. And if you like audiobooks it helps to hear it because there’s a ton of songs that the narrator sings and they make more sense that way.
@Tammy, thanks!
All the nancy drews
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Finally starting it!
I love this so much!
Catcher in the Rye
The Count of Monte Cristo – I’ve started more than once and keep getting waylaid.
Catcher in the Rye. It’s actually sitting on my shelf. I feel like everyone has read it except me!
I haven’t, so you’re not alone! ?
I haven’t read it either. Or atlas shrugged (apologies to Jen Lancaster)
I read it and loved it when I was a teenager, but when I re-read it as an adult, I just couldn’t identify with Holden anymore. Maybe you have to be in the middle of teenage angst to get it.
@Kristi Well I am waaaay past that!! ??
I wouldn’t bother, to be honest.
The Mary Poppins books
Mary Poppins. I bought a copy a year or two ago, but I haven’t read it yet.
Middlemarch. I’ve tried twice and haven’t gotten through it yet. It’s on my to-do list for this year, so maybe third time will be the charm!
Daniel Deronda is so much better!
I love Middlemarch, but I see where it could get slow.
The Secret Garden
My favorite as a child. I wonder if I would like it now
Anne of Green Gables
To Kill a Mockingbird
It is an excellent read. I just re-read it not long ago. I read my Mother’s copy a few times when I was growing up.
Moby dick
I had a professor teach me how to love this book. If you read (about) every other chapter you get the plot without all the whale info. Then after you’ve fallen in love with the story (which is great) you can go back and appreciate the whale stuff (which is very detailed) for what it is.
Anna Karenina
It’s so good.
Should I be embarrassed to admit that I still haven’t read Little Women???
No… and I started it but haven’t gone back to it in awhile… hopefully will finish it someday. ???
Goldfinch
Several of my friends and I all read this and had to force ourselves to finish. I hated it by the end. The beginning is nice though.
Don’t worry. That was one that had a zillion holds on it at our library and yet looked nearly new by the end of it’s run. People didn’t really read it. 🙂
Hated it by the end
Harry Potter
Little Women
The Hunger Games.
The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Only because I loved the movies so much and I’m just afraid the book would be better…as in most cases, books have always turned out to be better.
1984
Through the looking glass
Embarrassingly I have never read The Great Gatsby.
Catcher In the Rye
Dune, Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Devil in the White City