Books I Haven't Read Yet

The list author says:
	"I haven't read this yet, but he's on the money: it's much easier to talk about books you haven't read - there are so many more of them, plus reading a book takes so much longer than not reading it..."

The list author says:
	"...besides, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out on page one of The Black Swan: "Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.""

The list author says:
	"In the days before Amazon I trawled second-hand bookshops looking for a copy of this for several years - yet now, several more years later, it sits on a shelf still unread. One of many."

The list author says:
	"Another book I spent years trying to find (pre-Amazon) but still haven't got round to reading, even though it sounds fascinating and I've strongly identified with other books I've read by Hesse."

The list author says:
	"I spent ages trying to track down a copy of this as well. It seems ridiculous now when any book can be tracked down online in seconds and I still haven't got round to reading it."

The list author says:
	"I always struggle with 18th century novels, but when I started reading this many years ago I was riveted by the sweltering atmosphere. I can't believe I put it down and still haven't gone back to it."

The list author says:
	"I've started this several times and been captivated, but every time I try to come back to it after putting it down I feel I've lost the flow of it and just have to start again..."

The list author says:
	"I love what I've read of this so far - a sort of One Hundred Years of Solitude in chavvy England. I'm definitely going to have to finish this one - otherwise the library will be after me for it."

The list author says:
	"What a book for long dark winter nights: fantastic escapism - literally! Years ago my local library had a massive copy of the trilogy, but I only got through Titus Groan before I had to return it."

The list author says:
	"Power to the people. I bought this recently, having been meaning to read it for ages. Maybe I should have got it from the library though - their deadlines help. Now I may never get round to it."

The list author says:
	"Something I bought for 50p once because it sounded interesting: an Englishman is plucked from obscurity to become Pope and ends up selling the treasures of the Vatican to raise money for the poor."

The list author says:
	"I loved Fowler's first novel Scepticism Inc. (narrated by a shopping trolley!) in which religions are bankrupted by their leaders' extravagant metaphysical bets. If only Richard Dawkins was as funny!"

The list author says:
	"When I bought this from a charity shop some years ago the woman at the counter wished me luck - saying that she hadn't been able to make head nor tail of it. It sounds like a real mindf***."

The list author says:
	"I'm fascinated by utopian fiction, and I think Huxley's Brave New World was remarkably prescient; so I'm interested in this, a more positive take on humanity, but not enough to get round to it yet."

The list author says:
	"This is the book I most wish I'd read as a kid. Of those I did my favourite was No Way of Telling by Emma Smith in which a girl and her gran are snowed in - I love snowbound novels..."

The list author says:
	"I think I've read every book Peter Hoeg has written apart from this, his most famous one. I've been saving it until I find myself snowed in, but it only ever rains these days..."

The list author says:
	"A comic novel famous for its masturbation scenes. How have I managed to keep my hands off it? Perhaps it's for the best though. How would I read any of these books if I went blind?"

The list author says:
	"A transgender transexual living through several centuries is a fab idea, but I still haven't forgiven Woolf for the time I spent reading that book in which no-one gets to the blinking lighthouse."

The list author says:
	"I managed to plough through Bill Bryson's not-very Short History of Almost Everything, so why can't I find the time for something as succinct as a history of the world in 10½ chapters?"

The list author says:
	"I've heard that Svejk was to the First World War what Yossarian (in Catch-22) was to the Second. Another must-read. One day."

The list author says:
	"Another 20th Century classic I haven't read yet. I know, I know, stop banging on about it you'll give me a headache."

The list author says:
	"I think I'm just too lazy to read this one."