I like to consider myself an avid reader, and as most avid readers, I like to buy books. Unlike most avid readers, I buy books and don’t read them. I love everything about books; the cover art, the font, the feel, the smell, the stories. I love everything about stories; the characters, the phrasing, the descriptions, the flow, the plot twits, the unravelling, the tone, the themes.
However, whenever I have time to read, I inevitably turn to books I’ve already read. I love the familiarity, I love enjoying a story knowing the outcome, and I love reliving it again and again. I love catching things I missed the first couple times. I always feel like I don’t have time to commit to a whole new book, and in it, a whole new world.
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and decided to do a tally of how many books I have yet to adventure into! This is the list I came up with in the process:
- The Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman
- Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
- The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
- Dunkirk, Joshua Levine
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Concussion, Jeanne Mable Laskas
- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
- Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
- The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
- Beartown, Frederik Bachman
- The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
- Turtles All the Way Down, John Gree
- Miracles From Heaven, Christy Wilson Beam
- Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey
- It’s Not What You Think, Jefferson Bethke
- Jesus > Religion, Jefferson Bethke
- The Last Letter From Your Lover, Jojo Moyes
- A Few of the Girls, Maeve Binchy
- Christmas on Primrose Hill, Karen Swan
- Don’t Go, Lisa Scottoline
- The Moon and More, Sarah Dessen
- Granite Mountain, Brendan McDonough
- Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel
- Against All Odds, P. J. Naworynski
If you have any suggestions for me to read or any comments or reviews on any of these you’ve read, leave me a comment.
Hope this finds you well,
-L
Sight Unseen 
I’d recommend The Handmaid’s Tale – particularly given the recent TV adaptation of it. A really dramatic story about totalitarian control and women. If it’s any persuasion to you, I wrote a blog post about The Handmaid’s Tale while the TV show was airing (as spoiler-free as possible, I assure you) if you’d like to read it: https://readandreview2016.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/opinion-piece-the-handmaids-tale-with-the-blog-from-another-world/ 🙂
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Thank you! I loved your analysis! I’d like to read the book first and then watch the series- especially now that you’ve said that the series further explores the book! 🙂
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