Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
The topic this week is: Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read. These can be super popular books you’re surprised you haven’t read yet, books that have been on your to-read list forever, review copies you’ve been sitting on for a decade, books you were so excited to get your hands on and haven’t read yet, etc
These books are just the tip of an iceberg. They are books I’ve had for many years and for one reason or another I’ve left on the shelves. They are the books that came to my mind this week – next week I could list another ten books and the next week and the next week …
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H Lawrence
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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Well I’ve only read Lady Chatterley from that lot 😄
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I haven’t read any of these😀
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Years ago I read The D.H.. Lawrence book, and Moby Dick.
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I haven’t read any of these either, haven’t even heard of most of them. I hope you’ll enjoy them whenever you get around to picking them up!
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2026/06/02/top-ten-tuesday-book-series-i-cant-believe-ive-never-finished/
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I’ve read 4 of these, Margaret. But like you (and all of us I suspect) I could list dozens that would fit this category. There’s only so much time!
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I think I read three of these, but (like Sandra) I have literally dozens & dozens waiting on my shelves that I could list!
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I read Don Quixote in high school with a teacher who loved the book and it became one of my favorite books, too, because of my teacher’s knowledge of the book and her enthusiasm for it.
I thought I’d never read Moby Dick, but then I joined in a a blogger readalong with Bronwyn, and I loved it.
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I have an old friend who loved Don Quixote, but I’ve never tried it myself.
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I like your choices a lot, Margaret. I did both 100 Years of Solitude and Love in the time of Cholera at uni and discovered I liked García Márquez’ work very much. When/if you get to them, I hope you’ll like them.
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García Márquez is the writer I most want to catch up on from your list, and I agree there are dozens of titles I could list; it’s the reason I joined the Classics Club really!
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I haven’t read Moby Dick either but rather wishing I had as my book club have chosen Call Me Ishmaelle this month which is a ‘feminist retelling’ of Melville’s classic. I’m feeling a bit like a stranded whale with it at the moment.
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If it helps, Pickwick is theonly Dickens aside from A Christmas Carol, that I willingly finished. Brideshead, Lady Chatterly, and Agony & Ecstacy are all great.
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This is a great list! Don Quixote and The Pickwick Papers are also books I want to read.
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I think we all have so many books we could have chosen from. I hope you enjoy these when you do get the time to read them.
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I’ve read both Márquez books, and like Love better than 100 Years. I’ve also read Brideshead Revisited, which was fantastic, and also liked Lady Chatterley, but it was a bit… um… explicit for me.
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I haven’t read any of these either. I used to have a copy of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, but I had to toss is as it got moldy in storage.
Here’s my TTT for the week: https://readbakecreate.com/a-author-names-alphabet-challenge/
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Has anyone ACTUALLY finished MOBY DICK?? LOL. I have zero interest in reading it or DON QUIXOTE. If you do, I hope you enjoy them!
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I think I might have read a couple of them way, way back in high school or college, but I honestly can’t remember. Enjoy if you decide to try them! LOL
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I have read 1, 2, 4, 7, 9 and 10. All great books. Maybe you’ll pick up one of them one day. Enjoy.
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I’ve read four in the top row, none in the bottom. Lady Chatterley was banned when it first came out I think. Perhaps it would seem quite tame now but I haven’t read it so I don’t know.
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Moby Dick isn’t for me – I read a few extracts and decided I really wasn’t that interested in the plankton eating habits of whales.
Brideshead Revisited is a long term favourite of mine
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