Books I Haven't Read Yet

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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
1.  How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
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..."
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
2.  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.""
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Gravity's Rainbow
3.  Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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."
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The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics)
4.  The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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."
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The Counterfeiters (Twentieth Century Classics)
5.  The Counterfeiters (Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Gide
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."
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
6.  Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
7.  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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..."
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Darkmans
8.  Darkmans by Nicola Barker
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."
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Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two))
9.  Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two)) by Mervyn Peake
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."
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Tressell
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."
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Hadrian VII (Wordsworth Classics)
11.  Hadrian VII (Wordsworth Classics) by Frederick William Rolfe
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."
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The Astrological Diary of God
12.  The Astrological Diary of God by Bo Fowler
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!"
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The Magus (Vintage Classics)
13.  The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
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***."
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Island
14.  Island by Aldous Huxley
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."
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Treasure Island (Wordsworth's Children's Classics)
15.  Treasure Island (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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..."
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
16.  Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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..."
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Portnoy's Complaint
17.  Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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?"
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Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics)
18.  Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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."
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A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters
19.  A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
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?"
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The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
20.  The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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."
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The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics)
21.  The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics) by Gunter Grass
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."
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Oblomov (Penguin Classics)
22.  Oblomov (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Goncharov
The list author says:
  "I think I'm just too lazy to read this one."
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