Literary Walk of Shame

It's getting close to the end of classes and that means that I'll have more time for reading my own books instead of trying to figure out how much of an article I can skip over and still be able to have a conversation about it (a fine skill to have if you're in school, I must say). In anticipation or procrastination or what-have-you I've done up a list of all the books I've had piling up these past few months to hopefully both encourage me and shame me into reading more and watching British comedies less (oh Black Adder, you always know just the right sarcastic retort).

Books I've Started and Plan to Finish
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
On Writing - Stephen King
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
The Proud Highway - Hunter S. Thompson
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
At Swim Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien

(though honestly those last 3 are starting to look like they'll have a perpetual bookmark hanging out of the middle.)



Books Yet to Read But I'm Totally Gonna
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Golden Apples of the Sun - Ray Bradbury
Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Mark Richardson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other Jazz Age Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The English Patient - Michael Ondaateje
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
The Stand - Stephen King
How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer
The Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman et al.
Looking for Jake - China Mieville
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Robert Rankin

Apparently my sister has an infinite supply of Terry Pratchett and Marian Zimmer Bradley as well. Something tells me I won't be delving into that supply any time soon.