From Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler:
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Before You Even Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now And You’ll Wait Till They’re Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow From Somebody
- Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You’ve Been Planning To Read For Ages
- Books You’ve Been Hunting For Years Without Success
- Books Dealing With Something You’re Working On At The Moment
- Books You Want To Own So They’ll Be Handy Just In Case
- Books You Could Put Aside To Maybe Read This Summer
- Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books You’ve Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It’s Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them