I hate to bring it up since some may view it negatively, but I think it is an incredible thing to have a TBR (to be read) list of books continuously grow beyond one’s ability to ever read all the books that make the list. So today I am celebrating this idea/list by providing several books on my own TBR pile that I currently don’t have in my upcoming lineup of books I plan to read in the next several months. These are all books that have caught my interest but I have not gotten around to reading and are in the “I’ll read it eventually” category.

Octavia Butler is an author I want to explore further. I’ve only read Parable of the Sower so far and will eventually read the sequel to that title which is Parable of the Talents. I also want to read her book Kindred which I believe was recently adapted into a television show on Hulu. I want to read at least a few more titles by Margaret Atwood as well. Specifically Oryx & Crake which I think is the start of either a duology or trilogy.

Some science fiction titles I want to read, by authors I’ve read and enjoyed, are: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune by Frank Herbert, and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Some fantasy titles I want to read, by authors I’ve read and enjoyed, are: The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin and The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. More fantasy books, but by authors I haven’t yet read, include: The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (which is something like 26 books), The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, and N. K. Jemison’s The Broken Earth trilogy.

Some standalone books I want to check out, or by an author I want to try, include: Midnight’s Children by Salmon Rushdie, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Faded Sun Trilogy by C. J. Cherryh, Dahlgren by Samuel Delaney, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

I have not yet read any fiction by Haruki Murakami, but I actually plan to read at least one of his novels in the first half of this year. I read his book Novelist as a Vocation earlier this year, and I listened to his memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running several years ago. I’m not sure which book of his to start with, but I have a few on hand already including Norwegian Wood and Kafka On The Shore which are his more popular novels.

This is just a handful of books I want to read before I kick the bucket. Not sure when I’ll get around to them, but I hope I do eventually read them all. For now, I am reading Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility tetralogy which will take a little while to get through as my reading time is limited due to the job and parenthood. But hey, I should still have many decades left to fit in all the books. I hope you are creating a never-ending TBR and take joy in the thought of all the books you have yet to experience.

Happy Reading.