I'm admittedly not much of a reader of fiction... I think the
   last fiction book I read was that one by Dan Brown and I was
   kinda pushed into it. I tend to scan books, even non-fiction...
   never finished lord of the rings, harry potter, hunger games...
   always felt like a failing on my part, but what I do instead is
   I get enthusiastic readers of the books to summarize it for me.*
   Their enthusiasm for the story keeps me interested and hearing
   it from their perspective is more interesting to me than reading
   the actual tales. I did read the Hobbit though all the way
   through - and the first Ender's Game when it came out. The rest,
   I'd get from other people or look up summaries* I guess I'm a
   cheater :P [wow... now I think I'm going to go on a quest to get
   the authoritative list of every book I ever read from cover to
   cover, vs those that I can successfully pretend that I read...
   I'm such a narcissistic data-nut :P ] The books look awesome
   though and I'll read what you wrote on the web page; I'm good at
   reading web pages :D