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Readers On Tackling Their Ultimate TBR Book
Well, here we all are, sheltering in place, buying canned beans, and generally trying to figure out how to stay inside and keep our minds busy. We thought it might be a good time to ask Goodreads members on Twitter and Facebook to share the book that's lingered for far too long on their Want to Read shelves that they finally going to get around to cozying up with.
The answers were as varied as our members, ranging from long, immersive reads, to classics, to newer books that have come highly recommended from friends and family. Thank you to everyone who shared your reading plans. We've rounded up a sampling of those books below and we hope it might inspire even more readers to pick up a book that they've always wanted to read.
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What's the book you're going to find time to read now? Share your list book with us in the comments!
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Apr 07, 2020 06:01AM
That's pretty funny - I also have a lot of these on my to-read list, and not that many on my read list.
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I'm currently reading two books, "Captain Francasse" by Theophile Gautier and tonight I'm starting to read "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber, which should be arriving today from Amazon.
The Error of Truth: How History and Mathematics Came Together to Form Our Character and Shape Our WorldviewAmazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Error-Truth-Ma...
I plan to finish "American Dirt" and then move on to
"The Glass Hotel"
"Testaments"
I have read two on here, and two are on my TBR .I think Camus deserves a spot on the list.
(the Stranger or the Plague)
Samantha wrote: "I would like to read Anna Karenina and Watership Down this year. Atlas Shrugged would be good, too."Atlas Shrugged would be quite apposite right now.
If you can get through Anna Karenina, you’re better than me 😉
Watership Down is the most perfect book ever written. Still my all-time favourite.😍
I thought Anna Karenina was a much easier book than War and Peace.
Anastasi wrote: "Plus, great quarantine reads list of books about pandemic and post apocalypse:https://backpacksnstuff.tumblr.com/po...
Shortly:
- "Station Eleven" by Emily..."
Wittgenstein's Mistress is excellent
Alexios wrote: "Jayma wrote: "My son gave me David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest for Christmas, and I really want to get going on that. I think it will take me a while."You might be interested in 'I..."
thank you for that site!
I have been reading Infinite Jest for years...
I'm just glad because I finally got around to finishing Scythe during this time.
I just finished reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford and The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware. I highly recommend both novels!I am currently reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson which is one of my favorites for 2020 so far. I enjoy learning about the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarian project and the "blue" people of Kentucky.
I have the following books on my bookshelf:
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
No Future Without Forgiveness by T. Desmondand
The Denial of Death by E. Becker
My Dad gave me a copy of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" when I was about 10. I've lost count of the number of times I've started reading it in the 35+ years since, but I'm still yet to make it past about Chapter Two.
Susan wrote: "My Dad gave me a copy of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" when I was about 10. I've lost count of the number of times I've started reading it in the 35+ years since, but I'm still yet to..."Is it that hard of a book to read? I was just wondering. I have that book myself and have yet to read it.
Susan wrote: "My Dad gave me a copy of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" when I was about 10. I've lost count of the number of times I've started reading it in the 35+ years since, but I'm still yet to..."I enjoyed the book, but it wasn't my favourite Hardy book. Don't feel as if you need to read it -- if you're just not into it, you're not into it. No shame in that.
Also, who gives that book to a ten year old?!
Jeffery wrote: "I thought Anna Karenina was a much easier book than War and Peace."I agree. I enjoyed Anna much more than War
I've been meaning to read this book
(Femmes d'Alger Dans Leur Appartement, by Assia Djebar) for about 25 years. I first read a little of it in a French literature class in college, and basically made a mental note to finish it one day. It's also hard to find in the US. However, in fall of 2019 I got my very own copy by pure luck, for $2, when it turned up on one of the foreign language tables at the Big Book Sale for the San Francisco Friends of the Library. I figured it was time I actually read the thing. I've been working on it since this summer. It's slow-going because the writing is poetic and kind of dense, but I'll get there! It's also going to represent Africa in a new reading challenge I made for myself, where I am reading a book to represent each continent. (It takes place in Algeria and Tunisia.)
