The Book Queue

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You know you have one. That stack--or maybe mental list--of books you really really need to read but haven't gotten around to them yet.

Type One - Time sensitive - as in library books
George Sand - Horace
Alexandre Dumas père - Mémoires vol. 6

Type Two - Books I'm currently in the middle of
Traci L. Slatton - Immortal
Matthew Lewis - The Monk
Charlotte Brontë - Villette

Type Three - Sitting on the bookshelf unread
Katherine Lynch - Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France
Balzac - La Fille aux yeux d'or
Dumas père - Georges
Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Dan Simmons - Hyperion (and the three sequels)
George Sand - Indiana
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Adam Zamoyski - Holy Madness
a fuckton of poetry - mostly Byron, Blake, Hugo, and Baudelaire, but I have Spenser and Milton begging to be read too

(There's a lot of other unread stuff on my bookshelf but these are the ones with priority.)

Type Four - I don't actually own it but I really want to read it
Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle
Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Mary Renault - The Persian Boy
Alan Moore - Watchmen
a fuckton more poetry - Rimbaud and Verlaine plz, and a bilingual edition of Goethe's Faust

[insert "You know you need to lighten up when..." joke here]