Books I Wish I’d Read…

***I apologize for my long absence! There is no excuse… actually there is a very good one… My dear husband got sick, then kindly gave it to me. Right before we travelled to Melbourne for my brothers wedding. (Which was beautiful). So, the month long absence is over and you can expect to see me blogging a whole heap more, yay! ***

We’ve all got ’em. Those books that people talk about and you sit there in silence hoping that no one asks you if you’ve read it, because let’s be honest you’d probably lie and say you have. I’m trying to rectify that, by going through all the literary books that have formed so many people and have made a mark on our culture, but also happen to be some of the longest books ever written.

I love reading, and I love the ‘classics’: Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Book Thief. However, there is something so delicious about snuggling on the sofa and reading Harry Potter for the umpteenth time. But, there is a list of books that I would hate to never read. I figured I wasn’t completely alone in this, so I thought I would share my list with you and begin the daunting task of ticking them off.

1. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
2. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
4. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
5. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
6. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
7. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
8. All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
10. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
11. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
12. Atonement – Ian McEwan
13. The Bell Jar – Silvia Plath
14. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
15. The Code Of The Woosters – P.G. Wodehouse
16. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Doostoevsky
17. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
18. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
19. Elenor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
20. The Time Travelers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
21. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
22. Tess of the d’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
23. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
24. Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton
25. The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis

Started at the top, so my first book to tick off is The Goldfinch ❤ I’ll let you know how I go!

Allie xxx