reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
gathering dust unread in the bookcase:
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog
Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it
Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party
to read pile:
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September.
I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to
