Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Book Guilt

So I was on the YouTubes today, and I came across a video by Kristina Horner (a.k.a: italktosnakes) called I've Got Book Guilt. When she explained the concept, I thought to myself, "I've totally got that too!". Basically, book guilt is where you really like reading (like Kristina, I used to read all the time as a kid), but you occupy your time with other things (like the internet, video games, or TV). The kicker here is that you don't stop buying books, leading to a large back-log of unread books on your shelf. It is straight-up embarrassing how large mine is... I really need to start reading more! So in order to (hopefully) motivate me to read more and get through/experience these books, I'm posting all of them here on my blog. Books that are part of a trilogy/series that I haven't read will just have the first book of the series, or the next one I haven't read yet listed.


  • Peter Pan- J.M. Barrie
  • The Scions of Shannara- Terry Brooks
  • Angels & Demons/The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
  • Academ's Fury- Jim Butcher
  • Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
  • 1356/Sharpe's Tiger/Rebel- Bernard Cornwell
  • The Terminal Man/The Great Train Robbery- Michael Crichton
  • Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
  • The Lost World- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Count of Monte Cristo/The Three Musketeers/The Man in the Iron Mask- Alexandre Dumas
  • The Pawn of Prophecy- David Eddings
---Here is approximately where Kristina's list would end (numbers-wise)---
  • Magician: Apprentice- Raymond E. Feist
  • Debt of Bones/The Pillars of Creation- Terry Goodkind
  • Flight of the Fallen- Mary H. Herbert
  • Les Misérables- Victor Hugo
  • Genghis: Birth of an Empire- Conn Iggulden
  • New Spring/Winter's Heart- Robert Jordan
  • Night of Blood- Richard A. Knaak
  • The Templar Salvation- Raymond Khoury
  • Hood- Stephen Lawhead
  • A Game of Thrones- George R.R. Martin
  • The Skies of Pern- Anne McCaffrey
  • Sabriel- Garth Nix
  • Mistborn- Brandon Sanderson
  • The Crystal Shard- R.A. Salvatore
  • The Name of the Wind- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott
  • East of Eden- John Steinbeck
  • Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dracula- Bram Stoker
  • Sanctuary- Paul B. Thompson & Tanya C. Cook
  • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún- J.R.R. Tolkien
  • War & Peace- Leo Tolstoy
  • Dragons of Autumn Twilight- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Yeah... I think I may have a problem. Not necessarily a problem with not enough to read, or not anything good to read, but that I'm not reading enough.

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