It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books on my Bookish Bucket List. These are books I plan to read to increase my pretentious levels but feel like I need to become a better reader first.
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
I like how upfront you are about intentionally trying to increase pretension levels.
I haven’t been able to finish Atlas Shrugged. I started it what feels like forever ago and I think it’s too far above me intellectually because I don’t quite understand why it has so many fans.
Best of luck reading all of these books!
I’ve embarrassed my book snobbery and wear it as a badge of honor
I hope you get to these books! I love when I finish reading books like these.. I feel all special. Atlas Shrugged I am afraid to even begin!
It’s great knowing you’ve completed a book that scares everyone. Makes me proud
I’m intimidated by many authors on your list, Homer being the one I want to read the most and the least at once. I did tick Hardy off my list last year, though, but I didn’t like the book I read all that much! I read and loved Ayn Rand a long time ago and I have no intention of revisiting her. I like how your list is only books, though, that’s as bookish as you can get. 🙂
I feel that I’ll be able to handle them when I finish my lit degree
Reading those classics are also on the list. I just don’t know why I can’t get started on them!
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They seem so difficult
So many classics!! Good luck
Thanks, I hope to knock them all off my list. Maybe sooner than I think
Atlas Shrugged is on my list too. It’s so big!
I finished War and Peace, I’m prepared…not really