"A man is known by the books he reads" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been a big reader, I admit, its mostly of different levels of chick lit and a few classics, but I've always really love to read. I recently finished a book called "The Perks of being a Wallflower" and it was absolutely fantastic. It follows Charlie, a semi-nieve and and thoughtful young boy through his freshman year of high school. The story and plot are told through letters that Charlie sends to an annoymous reader, where he delves into his inner thoughts and paints pictures of great music and good books. In the book Charlie is encouraged to read and write papers by his english teacher, who assigns him books such as The Fountainhead, The Catcher in the Rye and The Stranger(which I read this year). The book was so good and his love of reading have both influenced me to take up my habit of nonstop reading this summer. My first step will be to read and finish all the unread books that I have on my bookshelves, which is a lot.

(yup, thats the stack. Read any? let me know!)

Anyways, I plan on keeping up with the large list of books I want to read this summer, and I'll be doing that through a list on this blog. If anyone out there has a list of unread books like mine I'd love to have company on this list of mine, so definitely let me know and join in on the fun!

Do you have stacks of books that have gone unread?