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110+ Books I Have Every Intention of Reading Next, Revisited

7/9/2013

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Last February (16 months ago), I wrote a post about all the books I have been meaning to read. In some cases, the books were newer releases I'd heard good things about. In others, I've owned to the books for over a decade and I like to imagine the characters inside of them as actors who've given up on the performance that will never come and instead spend their days tanning by the pool (or probably by the pond since most of these books are oldies) and their nights playing snooker and getting wasted on cocktails. I am 100% sure this daydream of mine is a result of my obsession with Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, in which all of our books are constructed in the BookWorld from the sets down to the casting of actors. Because I love that series, I had no trouble at all catching up with the one book I was behind on and then the next one, which was published after my initial list post. Likewise, I thoroughly enjoyed catching up with Eve and Roarke in J.D. Robb's In Death series. I am now adamant about listening to every installment, after plowing through six audiobooks to catch up in the last year and a half. The only problem with that series is that NORA ROBERTS IS TOO DAMN PROLIFIC AND EVERY TIME I CATCH UP THERE IS  A NEW RELEASE! YOU'RE KILLING ME, SMALLS! (FYI Thankless in Death comes out September 3rd.)

All told, I have finished 26 books from my list thus far. Here they are:

  1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (9/12)
  2. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1/13)
  3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (6/12)
  4. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (6/12)
  5. The Twits by Roald Dahl (5/12)
  6. The Witches by Roald Dahl(3/12)
  7. Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt (5/12)
  8. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde (8/12)
  9. The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde (2/13)
  10. Deadline by Mira Grant (3/13)
  11. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand (8/12)
  12. Boundless by Cynthia Hand (3/13)
  13. Indulgence in Death  by J.D. Robb(6/12)
  14. Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb(5/12)
  15. New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb (6/12)
  16. Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb (7/12)
  17. Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb (12/12)
  18. Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb (5/13)
  19. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (2/13)
  20. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (4/13)
  21. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (6/13)
  22. Beekeeping for Beginners (Short Story) by Laurie R. King (9/12)
  23. All-Of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (2/13)
  24. Being Billy by Phil Earle (2/13)
  25. The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (1/13)
  26. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (6/13)

Not too shabby but still a bit embarrassing. Several other bloggers were inspired by my list and made lists of their own but I'm not going to link to them because they all seem/ed to be far more successful than I was thus far and this is the part of the internet where I can pretend I kick ass even when I am just meh at something...like completing this list of books to read. Lately (read: since about two months into this challenge until now), I've been thinking about revisiting this list and amending it. I think it would be better for fickle ol' me to have a list, yes, but a list that has some fluidity to it. Therefore, I am going to nix these 26 off the list as well as about 20-30 more that I have an inkling I will never want to get to in the time period and those I don't want to read anymore at all. Also, I think it was optimistic (read: delusional) of me to include long series to finish. Sometimes series go horribly wrong midway (Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse, & the Undead series, anyone?) and I need at least the first book in a series to see whether it will be a good fit so I have deleted the remaining books in series that are new to me and only left on the first books.

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In terms of new categories of books I want to add onto my list, I have done some serious thinking about this. I have been having a really hard time keeping up with blogging lately but I do love doing it and I especially love doing some of our feature posts. For that reason, I want to include a few books that I really want to compare to their movie counterparts, so here goes:

1. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
4. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
6. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
7. Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott


I chose most of these because they are movies I have seen so many times that I know them nearly by heart. Several of them I have read before but want to read anew to compare them to their respective movie/s. This is particularly true for Little Women because I signed up for Classics Retold, a feature coming up in September hosted by Alyssa at Books Take You Places, Alison at The Cheap Reader, and a few other bloggers in which tons of different bloggers tackle all the versions (book, movie, tv show, etc.) of a classic and compare the retellings. I've chosen Little Women for that event and I'm excited to get started on all of it. What are your favorite books that have been made into movies? I have so, so many that I don't even know where to begin.

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My next new category is books I've bought or my friends have bought for me that I have not gotten around to, but instead of the ones I included last time (that had been sitting on my shelves for ages), I am picking only the books I acquired in the last few months:

9. Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
10. Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
11. Pivot Point by Kasie West
12. Golden by Jessi Kirby
13. A Brief History of Montmoray by Michelle Cooper
14. The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey
15. Wildlife by Fiona Wood
16. The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler
17. Girl, Defective by Simmone Howell
18. All This Could End by Steph Bowe
19. A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty
20. The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
21. The ZigZag Effect by Lili Wilkinson


And a few arcs (of the many) that I really want to read:

22. Vortex by S.J. Kincaid
23. Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier
24. Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
25. 15 Days Without A Head by Dave Cousins
26. The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway
27. The 100 by Kass Morgan
28. This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
29. Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce


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A lot of my recent reading time has been taken up by graphic novels, and I am hoping to keep that up for years to come. Though I have quickly plowed through a lot of the "must reads" in that area, there are a bunch that I want to get to so I can be more well-read in that format. I don't think I can consider myself any sort of superior recommender of graphic novels until I've completed these ones I haven't crossed off yet:

30. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
31.  Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan (read the first, at least 1 more)
32. The Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis (at least 1)
33. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
34. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
35. The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman (at least 1)


While perusing my shelves, I found a lot of books I bought with the intention of reading them because I loved something else I read by that author. With that in mind, here are a few additions to the list that are around because I love the author (for one reason or another):

36. A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
37. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
38. Hold Still by Nina LaCour
39. Stories of My Life and Others by Ted Chiang
40. The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap


That's 40 new additions, so here are the former list items I am keeping, in hopes that I will get to them. All told, I am back up to a few more than 110 so I can keep my arbitrarily made up challenge title of '110+ Books I Have Every Intention of Reading Next':

  1. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  2. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  3. Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
  4. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  5. All The King's Men by Robert Penn
  6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  7. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
  8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  11. 1984 by George Orwell
  12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  13. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  14. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
  15. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  16. Earthseed by Pamela Sargent
  17. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
  18. Green Rider by Kristen Britain
  19. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  20. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  21. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  22. Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
  23. The Boy by Roald Dahl
  24. The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
  25. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
  26. Going Solo by Roald Dahl
  27. Danny and the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
  28. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
  29. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
  30. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  31. The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
  32. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
  33. Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre
  34. Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre
  35. Killbox by Ann Aguirre
  36. Aftermath by Ann Aguirre
  37. Endgame by Ann Aguirre
  38. Blackout by Mira Grant
  39. The Hidden Star by M.K. Hobson
  40. The Likeness by Tana French
  41. Faithful Place by Tana French
  42. Broken Harbour by Tana French
  43. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
  44. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  45. Soulless by Gail Carriger
  46. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
  47. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
  48. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgalov
  49. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  50. Madapple by Christina Meldrum
  51. Between Shades of Gray by Rita Sepetys
  52. Kristin Lavransdattar by Sigrid Undset
  53. The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
  54. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  55. The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge
  56. The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
  57. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  58. The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulic
  59. The Stand by Stephen King
  60. Chime by Franny Billingsley
  61. Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres
  62. The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
  63. How To Save A Life by Sara Zarr
  64. Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
  65. The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
  66. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
  67. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  68. Blindness by Jose Saramago
  69. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  70. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  72. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  73. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

So, what do you think? Did you start your original list after me and then LEAVE ME IN YOUR DUST? (*cough*BONNIE*cough*) Are you still working on a list of your own? If so, leave me a link in the comments and I'll swing by and harass you about it every once in a while. Feel free to do the same for me. Or maybe start a list of your own and link me to that! I LOVE lists, especially goal lists of books to read.


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Lectus link
7/9/2013 03:38:35 am

Lol! That is quite a list! I make sure my list doesn't reach 100!

You definitely have to read Lolita.

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
7/9/2013 12:21:35 pm

Oh, definitely. That is one of those books that tons of people have read who are non heavy readers and then they look at you like :-| when you say you haven't read it yet, like you can't call yourself a reader. SNOBS:) I am looking forward to checking that one off the list, for sure.

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Jasprit link
7/9/2013 08:04:37 am

I totally forgot about the list I made all that time ago, I just checked I had 105 books on there and I read 22, so you did better than me Flann, but just by a smidge! I actually finished one series off The Dairy Queen series which I adored! Your enthusiasm has definitely made me want to sort my list out and definitely go for it this time! I will work on it over the next few days! Good luck with your stack Flann and I can't wait to see just how well everyone else did! :)

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
7/9/2013 12:23:01 pm

I couldn't concentrate past the first sentence of your comment because the sense of accomplishment I had at finishing more books than even one person who made a list was so overwhelming that I heard the Rocky theme song in my brain.

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Keertana @ Ivy Book Bindings link
7/9/2013 09:53:15 am

Flann, I'm so excited about some of the books you added on this list! I loved Golden and A Corner of White and quite a few others too, so I'm curious to see what you make of them. Also, I've been revising my list a lot too. I keep realizing I don't want to read certain books after all and have replaced those with other titles I will hopefully get to soon. Great updated list, dear, and AMAZING job getting to 26 of these titles! I'm sure my dent is much smaller, no doubt. :)

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
7/9/2013 12:24:47 pm

That's great to hear about Golden as I was a bit nervous to add it to the list. I went to see Jessi Kirby with a few other authors and bought Golden and In Honor to have them signed without having read either. The fact that you loved it speaks volumes to me, as I think I have a pretty good read on your bookish tastes.

I doubt your dent is smaller;-)

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Nafiza Azad link
7/9/2013 04:01:10 pm

A Corner of White is lovely. And have you read Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde and his nursery rhyme series? They are both wonderful too. You have a splendid list and I'm certain you're going to enjoy all the books!

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Alexa Y. link
7/10/2013 01:17:47 am

This is quite the list! I'm not too shocked by the extensive length, as I know my own list of books I want to read but haven't yet (and mostly own) is probably just as long. It's actually pretty inspiring! I think I should make up my own list for when I fly back home next month :)

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Sarah @Vampire (and Other Paranormal Things) Queen link
7/10/2013 02:16:16 am

Your list makes mine feel way too big. I wrote up a list of series I needed to finish on my phone over vacation and your list is so organized. Mine is a mess! Congrats on finishing some of your list! It's a huge accomplishment when it comes to books because something else always comes along to distract you.

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Tatiana (The Readventurer) link
7/13/2013 02:06:33 am

Lips Touch! Lips Touch! ASAP! (or it goes on our next SMMDI:)

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Nomes
7/13/2013 08:57:39 pm

I'll be doing Catching Fire again, too. I remember thinking it was my fave of the trilogy. Just bc you get to see so much more of the world and the larger scope of the fall out. And I thought the arena was creative and much more deadly. And at the time, there were a lot of unexpected twists in the story.

I want to read the Tana French books (have read the first, but can barely remember it, apart from likign it). also need to read the blue sword. i bought that back in 2010 and it's still just sitting around.

I read to page 450 of The Stand and stopped for some reason. Now I would have to start all over again. Which is too depressing to think about.

LOVED catch 22 when i was a teenager and should think about doing a reread...

I'm wanting to check out Golden by Jessi Kirby. But my library doesnt have it yet.

Cannot wait for the new Leila Sales book <3

read Animal farm in school and did not enjoy. haha.

read the roald dahls! I have read most of them over the last couple of years (out loud to my kids) they are easy and funny and short)

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Mandy link
7/16/2013 08:21:20 am

Thanks for sharing it's a brilliant idea. I always have a hard time picking out what I want to read next.
I started my list but it's going to take a while to get at least 110.

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Bonnie link
7/18/2013 06:46:11 am

This is so fun. I should make another one of these because I'm obsessed with lists for some idiotic reason. Animal Farm was a fantastic audio, fyi.

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Regina link
7/20/2013 01:23:38 am

You haven't read Shadow Fever yet? How were you able to stop and not keep going?!

How to Save a Life is one of my favorite reads of last year. Definitely listen to the audio for that book.

Moonstone is on my list too. I got 50% in and got distracted. I did like it, but I intend to read it soon. But your list is inspiring! I love making lists, keeping to them is something entirely different (for me anyway).

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Heidi link
7/20/2013 06:15:08 am

*Sigh* I still need to do a post like this, though I do have my 'no seriously TBR' shelf on Goodreads which is essentially my list. I'm put out because I bought a used "hardcover" edition of The Eyre Affair to start that series a couple of weeks ago, and they sent me an ARC. I was not amused. Also, yes, you need to read Transmet and Watchmen and V and Sandman. Transmet is Chris's all-time favorite non-superhero graphic novel, and I'm a fan as well, though Sandman's more my fave. Also I feel like having gotten through 1/4 of your books is damn good progress!

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Alyssa link
7/26/2013 04:53:03 am

Flan!! You are a crazy woman!! So many of these I need to read...specifically Howl's Moving Castle...I am afraid to make my own list because it is almost like if I do I won't read them..like I tell myself "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, SELF!" Yeah...not the most rational...

I was recently looking at the Rory Gilmore Reading List and for a few hours I was really thinking about using that. I mean, I am a LIBRARIAN, these are definitely books I SHOULD read....but like the new Fables just came out and ya know, those books are hard so I set it aside..*ahem* for now...

Good luck on your list lady, I have faith in you!

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Christina Franke link
8/9/2013 12:32:25 am

I don't know if this will make you feel better, but I specifically don't make lists like these for public consumption, because I never freaking manage to read many of them. I'm horrible at keeping to these things. Or, actually, I could probably get about half of them, but that's just because it would be my review pile. Haha.

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