11 Books/Authors I Should Be Ashamed Not to Have Read

1. The Lord of the Rings. (I tried, but it was only medicinal. I made myself read 30 pages every night until nearly the end of the third book, and then I just gave up).

2. Dorothy Dunett’s Lymond books.

3. The Bertie Wooster books.

4. Anything by Georgette Heyer.

5. Most books by Dickens. I hate Dickens. What can I say? Boring.

6. Robert Heinlein. (Though from what I can tell, this is probably a good thing.)

7. Faust by Goethe. (As a PhD in German and someone who was forced to write her dissertation half on Goethe, this is pretty serious.)

8. Watership Down. (I have this thing about animal fantasies, which is pretty weird since I write animal fantasies).

9. Dune (I also tried, but just could not do it.)

10. Robert Jordan. (Tried for about 50 pages, gave up.)

11. Terry Brooks. (I get that people say he was ripping off Tolkein, but since I can’t read Tolkein either, I suppose this is no surprise)