Due in 2023

Based on precise mathematical calculations, (two weeks per book, at 28 books, carry the one, check the decimal, divide by 12, multiply by 2, where x=y-z on a pizza), I estimate it will take me until the year 2023 to finish the following books on my “intend to read” list.  I’m posting it here to keep myself accountable and to share with you just how pathetically long it takes me to get through one of these tomes.  Who knows?  Maybe you’ll even get a book report.  A short one.  Kind of like my movie reviews.  Heh.

1. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier completed 10/29/08
2. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks completed 01/04/09
3. Middlemarch – George Eliot gave up 01/11/09
4. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
5. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres completed 06/10/09
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez gave up 02/06/09
7. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving completed 12/16/08
8. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins completed 11/26/08
9. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery completed 12/09/2010
10. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood completed 09/20/2010
11. Atonement – Ian McEwan gave up 04/04/09
12. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons completed 01/22/2011
13. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
14. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon completed 06/12/2011
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley completed 05/09/2011
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon completed May 2010
17. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez completed 01/31/09
18. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov gave up 03/30/2011
19. The Secret History – Donna Tartt completed 8/22/2011
20. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie gave up 08/09/2011
21. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson gave up 02/16/09
22. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
23. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray gave up 06/13/2011
24. Possession – AS Byatt
25. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell completed 08/07/2011
26. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom completed 02/11/09
27. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad gave up 11/29/2011  
28. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole gave up 11/13/2010

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The Really Makes One Think List

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Read It, You’ll Like It List

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 
The Secret History – Donna Tartt   

The Takes Awhile to Get Into, But It’s Worth It List

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

The *Meh* List
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hours of My Life I’d Like Back List

Middlemarch – George Eliot
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Atonement – Ian McEwan
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad