This is the first time I have participated in this, but the prompt got me wondering. That Artsy Reader Girl wants to know the Top Ten Books That I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read. I know for a fact that there are plenty of “classics” that I have never read. Despite the praise for many of them, I just have never found the time to read them.
I went to the Goodreads “Books That Everyone Should Read Once In Their Lifetime” list for a little help. I limited myself to their Top 100.
10.
I never saw the movie either.
9.
Some of my friends had to read this in high school, but I never did.
8.
I’m embarrassed to admit this. Who hasn’t read this one? (Raises hand slowly) Me.
7.
For the record, I did see “Went With The Wind” on the Carol Burnett Show. That’s sort of close, right? Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn….
6.
The people I know who read this, say it is a bore. Old guy in a boat fishing. Maybe it’s more than that, I don’t know for sure.
5.
I guess I thought this was going to be about wine. That’s how us Italians think about grapes. It’s not, so I passed.
4.
I remember being somewhere where the movie was playing, but I didn’t pay much attention to it. I always knew it was a children’s book, but never read it to mine…yet.
3.
Another one I am embarrassed to admit I’ve never read.
2.
No lie – I heard someone mention this book and call the author “Alexandre Dumb-Ass.” Perhaps I am one for not reading this one.
1.
My brother is a librarian. He reads a lot of books on the Holocaust. This is one that I know he has read. He knows a lot about Anne Frank. He was in town this past weekend and while walking through the bookstore, this was on one of the “Suggested Reads” tables. It was hard for me to admit to him that, despite it being on my “to read” list, I have yet to pick it up.
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
i’ve read most ot these, but some i was forced to read for school and really didn’t take anything in .) your gone with the wind alternative was hilarious
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One of her best sketches
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I have only read one from this list, The Great Gatsby and only portions of some of the others in school. Is it hard to go back and read the original book when we have seen so many of them in movie form?
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That’s a great point. When I reread The Godfather, I can’t help but picture Brando and Pacino
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And when I read Great Gatsby I think of Robert Redford!
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Ive read the majority of these but I have a few blind spots, including Hemingway.
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It was eye opening to realize just how many I have not read
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Too many books, not enough time. I’ve read a few on your list like ‘Lord of the Flies’ (liked it but it was high school), ‘The Great Gatsby’ (forced myself when I was about 30 because it was supposed to be the Great American Novel. To me it was the Dull American letdown’) and ‘Tom Sawyer’ (ok and an interesting look at mid-19th Century America but I was maybe 40 when I read it…might have hit me more if I was 14). Tried to read a Hemingway once, didn’t like the story nor his style, though if I’d liked the story more his sparse, abrupt wording might have appealed to me. Steinbeck though, I like. Great writer, and his ‘Travels with Charley’ is a book I’ve probably read 8 times. Non-fiction, love it. So I should get around to ‘the Grapes if Wrath’!
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Five of these were required reading while I was in high school. I just read The Diary of Anne Frank last year. I’ve seen the play a few times though. I can’t believed that I’ve not read Old Man and the Sea, but I probably never will at this point.
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