Books You Own But Have Not Read (1 Viewer)

[jhakka]

Two Gemmell books, but that's only because I bought about 20 books within the space of two months, and I have to work my way through the others first.

 

[jebbie]

I have all sorts.

What I own and havent read:
Emma by Jane Austen (I havent read it fully and thus I have not read it )
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (see above)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Tale of The Two Twin Cities or something by Charles Dickens
The entires collection of Terry Prachett (like Small Gods, Fifth Elephant, etc)
A mini teeny tiny book titles William Shakespeare's Sonnets
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Im fairly sure I havent read all of the Bible considering Numbers and such is very boring (Im sorry to say it but the listing gets to me)

What I own and have read:
The Silmarillion - Tolkien(yes this is true, I managed to get through this book and not Emma nor North and South! How shameful)
The Hobbit - Tolkien
LOTR - Tolkein
Secret garden - (cant find it for author)
The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Little Women - (cant find it for author)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
All of the Harry Potter Books (bar the latest) - Rowling (I confess I do not own them but my brother does, he was given them as a gift and I read them in the car on the way to a holiday (or perhaps several))
From the Tommy and Tuppence Detective series: The secret adversary, Postern of fate, and Partners in Crime all by Agatha Christie
Miss Marple, the complete short stories (all 20) - Agatha Christie
Miss Marple Omnibus VOLUME 1 the body in the library, the moving finger, a murder is announced (my favourite ever miss marple , although that being said I think I love Miss marple above all other murder mysteries and I love murder mysteries oevr all other books <3), 4.50 from paddington - Agatha Christie

Umm.. Im not too sure whatelse. Theres a book place thing shelf...shelves.. bookcase! downstairs but I cbb. Thats all thats in my room (thats viewable) Theres probably plenty more.. But theres the gist of it. Yes yes I love murder mysteries

EDIT: Ooh I just spotted a few more. Haha
Black Coffee - Agatha Christie
Proirot's Early Cases (I think theres roughly 20) - Agatha Christie
Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
5 Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris (a favourite)
Chocolat - Joanne Harris (another favourite)

 

[hyperbole]

I can't seem to find the time to read or finish reading books. I tend to read half-way, stop, and then read another. These are the books that I've purchased and haven't read, or have read but haven't finished

Little Women
The Other Side of the Story
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
The Da Vinci Code ....IKNOW!
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince....I KNOW!
David Copperfield
Gulliver's Travel
In Memory of Running
Life of Pi

...and I just bought "The Jane Austen Book Club" which I hope to finish, because its starting off really well. But then again, so did a lot of other books...

 

[PerfectByNature]

NONE!!!!!!!!!! ive read all the books i own... but my sis owns many more than i do and i havent even read half of her ones.

 

[walrusbear]

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
animal farm
trainspotting - irvine welsh
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

check these out pronto

elmore leonard is also good crime writing

 

[Benny_]

Dubliners- James Joyce
Inferno- Dante
God Knows- Joseph Heller
Naked Lunch- William S Burroughs (I tried reading this and Ulysses intermittently once and found myself totally lost. Will give it another go sometday..Ulysses too)

 

[walrusbear]

thomas pynchon - the crying of lot 49, V
murakami - kafka on the shore
jonathan safran foer - everything is illuminated
joyce - ulysses
stoker - dracula
raymond carver - cathedral
the latest harry potter
salman rushdie - midnight's children
iain banks - the wasp factory

off the top of my head
i'll get around to them all eventually

 

[AlleyCat]

i have not yet began to read the moonstone by wilkie collins.

the thing is, i just analysed it in my ext english exam yesterday...

 

[dead cactus]

hyperbole - i read the jane austen book club and quite liked it, so hopefully you'll like the rest as much as you like the start

walrusbear (and others) - thanks for the suggestions, i just started on animal farm, though am struggling for time to read, lol!

 

[jebbie]

This thread is sucky. It inspired me to re-read Five Quarters of the Orange and I finished it at 1 this morning.. Only I had to get up at 6 this morning for school. BAD THREAD!

 

[KFunk]

I have a pile that's been building up over the HSC:

Homer - The Odyssey
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (I got a little bit into this but decided to let it wait)
Satre - Being and Nothingness
Aurelius - Meditations

edit - I just saw a couple more

Mark Twain - Roughing It
James Gleick - Genius

 

[Happybunny1]

i have about 30 books i have bought but never got around to reading, or if i did start them i would get about 3 pages into them think they were crap. does that happen to anyone else, or do you just stick with it to the bitter end?

 

[keladry]

i usually only buy books if i think they're worth it - which usually means i've read it before.

but now i've got access to my bank money via a keycard and went crazy... $600 to less than $20 in 6 months >< plus uni keeps me super busy and consequently i have a stack of books i havent read yet. got thru some in the break tho (the lovely bones by alice sebold was good).

have yet to plow thru:
= BattleAxe - Sara Douglass
= Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
= Medalon - Jennifer Fallon
= Orthe - Mary Gentle
= Vanity Fair

that's all i can remember atm.

 

[~Smurfette~]

I buy books because I've read them, like them, would liketo own them and perhaps one day built a rocket out of them. But books that lay idle on the top shelf, forgotten (including the numerous school library books I've either forgotten I'd taken or never intend on returning in this lifetime):
- Wuthering Hieghts, Bronte
- The ill-made Mute, Dart-Thornton (an ill-made birthday present)
- RTA manual, L-test was brilliant guesswork
- The Concise English dictionary, Collins...from its colouration, it looks at least 500
Thats all from the top of my head

 

[Katie123]

i haevnt read Brother Fish- Bryce Courtney cos it drove me nuts about 10 chapters in (this book is HUGE). i havent read some of teh romance novels i've got. i keep getting them for xmas from a friend of teh family and yeah well now they are my train books

 

[arielbelle]

hmm, lots of these~ the last book i bought was the entire volumn of jane austen, 7 in 1. i'm still yet to read it!~

 

[kita]

a clockwork orange is brilliant - pple u must read it!

 

[persephone]

I bought this book when I shouldn't have because I should have used that money to pay for transport for uni this week but Atonement by Ian McEwan.

 

[fb07]

the count of monte cristo .. ok ive actually read some of it but my arms get tired just holding it up never finished it

 

[YBK]

Lord of the rings... i've only read the first book and a bit of the second...

They've been gathering the dust for over a year...

oh yeah, and a lot of other books i found in the garage when we moved in.. the owners were horny .....