the, er, definitive list.

to date, i have read 78 of them. attempted and failed two*, and quit one in protest.** and seen an additional 21 in film or stage adaptations.

i have some concern that if i settled down to read the remaining 922 books, during that time there’d be a 1000 other books written that i’d need to read, and i’d be right back where i started.

*gravity’s rainbow and satanic verses. in my defense, i was in college when i washed out on both of those books, and my brain was pretty full up before picking up Pynchon as bedtime reading.

**american gods, because, as unpopular as this will make me, i haaa-aaate neil gaiman.