PIE (Perpetually In Existence) list
The PIE list are those books that I talk about wanting to read all the time, pine after whenever I see them on other blogs on my bookshelf, and yet never get to reading them, maybe because of sheer fright of size/profundity/language/hype, or because I'm not getting time to read them. This list will include books that were published any year except the current running year, since the whole point of this list is to get to those books I keep pining for.
The PIE list are those books that I talk about wanting to read all the time, pine after whenever I see them on other blogs on my bookshelf, and yet never get to reading them, maybe because of sheer fright of size/profundity/language/hype, or because I'm not getting time to read them. This list will include books that were published any year except the current running year, since the whole point of this list is to get to those books I keep pining for.
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- A Mercy by Tony Morrison
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Apr 19, 2012)
- Game of Thrones by George Martin
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Gone by Michael Grant
- The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Feb 12, 2012)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
- In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (May 19, 2012)
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
- Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Jan 3, 2012)
