What books you want to read, but haven't done so yet?

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No particular order:

Finish reading Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

Around the World in 80 Days

Gilgamesh

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Twelfth Night {Shakespeare}

Julius Caesar {Shakespeare}

King Lear {Shakespeare}

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Red Badge of Courage

Three Musketeers

Ivanhoe

War & Peace

Finish reading Utopia

My bookshelf is full of books I bought and never touched, and those are just a small fraction of the books I want to buy but can't because I never have any money.

I picked up Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a thrift shop and am looking forward to starting it when I'm done what I'm reading now. I've heard good things about it and loved One Hundred Years of Solitude, so I'm excited.

A Plain English translation of 'The Secret History of Mongols' , which is Khublai Khan's transcription of how his grandfather Temugiin united the disparate tribes of north central Asia into the Mongol Nation/Empire. --The Francis Woodman Cleaves version which was translated in the fifties and published in 1982 reads like bad Shakespere , due his bad choice of affecting Shakesperian/Jamesian English in the transliteration from the original Chinese.

None of any significance. Any book I want to read I buy and right now, there aren't any. I may have one or two on pre-order on Amazon. Oh, except for the latest edition of Jane's, which I'd like to read but is way too f*****g expensive (£600 from Amazon ^^) don't think I could justify that to myself, I'm not that keen.

There are one or two obscure books I'd like to re-read, but can't remember the name of (stuff I read when I was younger) but obviously can't say what they are. There's a short story called The Tower of Moab that I'd like to read but it's out of print.

There's a number of books I haven't read and don't expect to enjoy that I feel obliged to attempt. The latest boring GRRM doorstopper and Gravity's Rainbow (which I started once) are examples. That sort of rubbish. Depends on the operative meaning of "want."

I just had a thought. It's unfortunate that I have CAPD, because I could "read" a lot of old public domain classics by downloading audio book versions for free at LibriVox. It's also unfortunate that I don't like reading fiction on computer screens, so I can't just download a free e-book and read it.

House Rules by Jodi

I would like to read Rainbow Boys (the first book in the Rainbow Boys trilogy by Alex Sanchez), because it's the only book in the trilogy that I haven't read yet.

I would also like to read The Perks Of Being A Wallflower because the main protagonist of that book sounds interesting because he's gay and might have Asperger's (like me).

Other books that I might like to read someday are The Catcher In The Rye because it focuses on teenage rebellion during the post-WWII years, a topic which interests me; and The Great Gatsby because it's set in New York City during the 1920s, and I find that time period to be fascinating.

If anybody has read any of the books I mentioned, let me know what you thought of them.

Oh, I do also want to read Ensel und Krete and Wilde Reise durch die Nacht but there's no English translation yet (last I looked, I should probs check) and my German isn't up to it.

Les Miserables

It's just too sodding big

The first book is an overrated dungpile.

The second is terrific. Highly recommended.

Gasp! I love The Catcher in the Rye. To each his own, I guess.

I liked The Great Gatsby, but my favorite Fitzgerald novel is his semi-autobiographical Tender is the Night, which is based on his legendary relationship with Zelda.

The Hobbit.

I need to get around to reading it before the movies come out.

The entire "Miss Read" series.

I've read The Catcher in the Rye. I enjoyed it, though it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be.

I wouldn't describe it as being about teenage rebellion at all, and I wasn't even aware it was set during the post WWII years, so it didn't make much of a difference to me.

This. I bought a bunch of books when stores were going out of business. They looked interesting, but then just sit on my shelf. Seems like the only time I sit down and read a book is when I'm on a plane, cause that's about all I can do.