Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme run by The Broke and the Bookish. This Week's Episode...Top Ten Books I Can't Believe I've Never Read. I want to point out that this is a list of books that I, myself, am shocked to admit I've never read-- my professors have their own (lengthy) list of holes in my education...
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Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. I've had this in my TBR pile for years now but every time I go to the shelves to pick out a new read I seem to just waltz right past this one.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. I've had this in my TBR pile for years now but every time I go to the shelves to pick out a new read I seem to just waltz right past this one. 2. 
Actually... I've never read ANYTHING by Nick Hornby. I hear such good things, but we just never seem to be in the same place at the same time.
Actually... I've never read ANYTHING by Nick Hornby. I hear such good things, but we just never seem to be in the same place at the same time.3. 
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. It seems like every third person on the street is reading a Suzanne Collins book this week. I've read blurbs and reviews and the series sounds like a good time. Maybe when I get a break from 'academic reading (of Doooooooooom!)...
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. It seems like every third person on the street is reading a Suzanne Collins book this week. I've read blurbs and reviews and the series sounds like a good time. Maybe when I get a break from 'academic reading (of Doooooooooom!)...4. 
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This book sits on my TBR pile and taunts me from across the room. It's not necessarily something that I WANT to read, but in order to consider myself a good little English scholar.. I probably ought to have read something by both of these guys! They seem to be kinda important...
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This book sits on my TBR pile and taunts me from across the room. It's not necessarily something that I WANT to read, but in order to consider myself a good little English scholar.. I probably ought to have read something by both of these guys! They seem to be kinda important...5. 
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I think I've started this book twice, but life interrupted.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I think I've started this book twice, but life interrupted.6. 
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. 7. 
Atonement by Ian McEwan.
Atonement by Ian McEwan.8. 
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers. I want to read this one just for the title. Dude's got some cajones to put that one out there...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers. I want to read this one just for the title. Dude's got some cajones to put that one out there...9. 
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick. I got embroiled in a long conversation with a friend last week about whether or not Adam and Eve (or Frankenstein, or most of the Greek Gods for that matter) had belly buttons. If you're not born in the 'usual' way there doesn't seem to be any need for an umbilical cord and, therefore, no need for a belly button! At the end of the conversation I declared that if I ever wrote a novel about an android I would call it No-Navel Nanette. My friend then replied that Philip Dick had already written a book about this exact topic and that I should read it before wasting my time scribbling away.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick. I got embroiled in a long conversation with a friend last week about whether or not Adam and Eve (or Frankenstein, or most of the Greek Gods for that matter) had belly buttons. If you're not born in the 'usual' way there doesn't seem to be any need for an umbilical cord and, therefore, no need for a belly button! At the end of the conversation I declared that if I ever wrote a novel about an android I would call it No-Navel Nanette. My friend then replied that Philip Dick had already written a book about this exact topic and that I should read it before wasting my time scribbling away. 10. 
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. 