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Attached is a list of books I've attempted to read on numerous occasions, but have never finished. There's something compelling that makes me want to read them, but for some reason I have not been able to get involved enough with them to reach the end. Maybe it's me, and maybe it's the book. In a few cases, these are works of considerable imagination, but where the fantasy seems to lose touch with reality, and I lose my bearings (e.g., Christopher Unborn, The Island of Crimea.) In other cases, I feel some obligation to read a book because it has been so highly recommended or because I'm almost embarrassed not to have read it by now; but the reading is work rather than pleasure; it goes very slowly; and it's much easier to put the book down than to continue. Perhaps others have had similar experiences.
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
JR by William Gaddis
James Joyce by Richard Ellman
Christopher Unborn by Fuentes
The Island of Crimea by Aksyonov
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
See Under: Love by David Grossman
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Wings of a Dove by Henry James
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
Pierre by Herman Melville
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