top ten tuesday: nevers

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at the Broke and the Bookish, where each week we highlight a different category of novels, authors, etc. This week's theme is "May 5: Ten Books I Will Probably Never Read," which is hard for me, because I like to think that I will try anything once. However, there are a few books that I just don't think I will *ever* get around to, either by choice or just because I am disinterested. So without further ado, here they are. 

1. Reached by Ally Condie – I read the first two books in this series, Matched and Crossed, and while I loved the first book, Crossed underwhelmed me to a point where I just got angry at the series. I have absolutely no interest at all in finishing out this trilogy. 
2. Fifty Shades of Gray by E.L. James – Soooo not my cup of tea. I have friends who read all three and loved them, and other people who I know who absolutely hated them, but I stick pretty much with "I will never ever ever lay my hands on those books." 
3. Anything else by William Faulkner EVER – I read As I Lay Dying and thought it was actually the worst book I'd ever read, so when we were going to read The Sound and the Fury in my senior Lit class, I had hopes that me and As I lay.... had just had a bad relationship. Nope. Couldn't decide which one, of the two, I hated worse. Then, just to torture myself, I read The Bear, thinking that maybe a short story would be tolerable to me.... wrong again. I just can't get myself to be even cordial with Faulkner. 
4. Untold by Sara Rees Brennan – I loved the first book in this series, Unspoken, up until the very very end. Which completely destroyed me. I was so traumatized by the end of the novel, as well as the (imho) terrible cover change, that I can't see myself ever picking up the rest of this trilogy. 
5. Across the Universe by Beth Revis – Nothing against the book or the author, it's just something that has been on my radar and in my TBR pile for literal YEARS and I have just never gotten around to it. I have to be in a very specific mood to read sci/fi, and this is one that has just never called to me. 

I could really only think of these five examples because, like I said I will try anything once! What are some of your picks?

xx
Sunny