Thursday, October 16, 2008

More About Books

Meme meme meme meme meme. I never do these. But this one's cool. And sort of embarrassing - for someone who claims to be an "avid reader," I have a LOT of books on this list that I haven't read.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha*
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West*
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northhanger Abbey
The Catcher In the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence: An Inquiry Into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

How about you?

shameful book list - B-

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:32 PM

    Let's just say that this gives me some things to add to my "to read" list. And maybe I should update my Good Reads list.

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    ANNA KARENINA
    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    CATCH-22
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    The Silmarillion
    Life of Pi
    THE NAME OF THE ROSE
    Don Quixote
    Moby Dick
    Ulysses
    MADAME BOVARY
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE EYRE
    A Tale of Two Cities
    THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    WAR AND PEACE
    Vanity Fair
    The Time Traveler's Wife (don't know how to do a strike-out, but I HATED this book)
    The Iliad
    EMMA
    The Blind Assassin
    THE KITE RUNNER
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Great Expectations
    American Gods
    ATLAS SHRUGGED
    READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
    MIDDLESEX
    Quicksilver
    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    THE CANTERBURY TALES
    The Historian
    A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    BRAVE NEW WORLD
    THE FOUNTAINHEAD
    Foucault's Pendulum
    MIDDLEMARCH
    Frankenstein
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Dracula
    A Clockwork Orange
    Anansi Boys
    The Once and Future King
    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
    1984
    ANGELS AND DEMONS
    The Inferno
    The Satanic Verses
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Mansfield Park
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    To the Lighthouse
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Oliver Twist
    Gulliver's Travels
    Les Misérables
    The Corrections
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    Dune
    THE PRINCE
    THE SOUND AND THE FURY
    Angela's Ashes
    The God of Small Things
    A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
    Cryptonomicon
    Neverwhere
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Dubliners
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    Beloved
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    THE SCARLET LETTER
    EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES
    The Mists of Avalon
    Oryx and Crake
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    Cloud Atlas
    The Confusion
    LOLITA
    Persuasion
    Northhanger Abbey
    THE CACTHER IN THE RYE
    On the Road
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    FREAKANOMICS
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence: An Inquiry Into Values
    The Aeneid
    Watership Down
    Gravity's Rainbow
    THE HOBBIT
    In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
    White Teeth
    Treasure Island
    David Copperfield
    The Three Musketeers

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