10 Books You Probably Read & Forgot

A few years back there was a research study that mentioned how American adults average about five books read a year...

On a wild guess, I'm going to say most of you looking at this read more than that... maybe even five books in a month...

Some of us are logging in around 100 or more books a year...

And in all that we are bound to read books and then forget about them... right?

I somehow have managed to remember many of the plots of the books I've read.  In fact, I often get a new story and mention how it is exactly like another plot I've read maybe ten years previously.  But, I usually forget titles, authors, or names of characters... and of then there are piles of titles I read while in college for my lit classes that I have blocked away.

But luckily we have Goodreads! And it will at least help us to track all the books we've read, and when.  So when I saw the ideas from Top Ten Tuesday on That Artsy Reader Girl about books we can't remember, and books I can't believe I read, I figured I'd search out my Goodreads list and see what I' read and do not remember...

And to be honest, finding 10 was harder than it should have been... I guess that's a good thing... maybe my memory isn't completely shot!

10 Random Books That Often Slip My Memory

1. Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert  - This is one of those classics that everyone seems to have heard about, but how many of us have read it?  Well, I did!  I even have notes from my class... but I only vaguely remember the basics... 
2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer -  Moment of truth... I took an entire class on Chaucer... while we read this unfinished "masterpiece" a few times, we spent most of the class focusing on the history of the time period... so somehow I have forgotten the vast majority of these tales. 
3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - Okay, in all fairness, I remember a ton of this story, but I am fuzzy on the names and the details... the setting I remember... and with the movie coming up I feel like I should remember it! 
4. Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth - Yep, even a new book is on my list... and I know I read it, recently... but I don't remember any of the characters names, and I only vaguely remember the plot... I mean I even reviewed it on here!  How embarrassing. 
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - Another book I know I read for school, because I remember writing the author's name on a test paper... and that is where my memory ends... and thanks to all the movies that have taken this story as the basis, I don't know what memories are from the book or the movies... 
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray - When I try to remember this story I only remember flipping through the pages thinking it's so long, and what high school teacher expects us to read that much????  hahaha, not the point, but I have a feeling we all have a few of these. 
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Alright, I do remember this one quite a bit actually. But the very beginning, that part slipped away from recently. 
8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - I know I read this... but... yep it's gone...
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison - So I read this in high school and college, yep twice, both time for diversity authors... which is great.  And I even remember liking it even though it has some very heavy topics.. what topics you ask?  Don't mind me while I check Goodreads... yep it's all out of my memory.
10. The Giver by Lois Lowry - Another one I know I read while in school...I was talking to someone about it just a few weeks back and she mentioned a subplot and I stared at her like she grew a second head. Yep, I forgot it!

There are probably a ton more, especially from school, but oh well.  Then again, the last 10 years are full of books I do remember, so that's alright.

Now, please, tell me there are some books you know you read but you can't remember! 

What books did you read, maybe even loved, and now forget?