I’m just puttering this morning, waiting until it’s time to go fetch a friend from the airport, so I’m going to steal/participate in this meme posted yesterday by Mrs. Brown. Feel free to comment or copy…
“These are the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those 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 : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby-Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey*
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: A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucualt’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: A Novel
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: A Memoir
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 & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
November 3, 2007 at 2:12 pm
You are very well read.
This seems far too much like hard work, but I surprised myself to find that I’ve actually read 18 of these books, including one on your to-read list! (Save the Curious Incident… for just before you come to London!) – that’s two more than the number of these that I’d never actually heard of!
Looking again i note you both bolded and underlined the Curious Incident… so maybe it’s on your list to read again??!
November 4, 2007 at 3:32 am
No, it shouldn’t be underlined–Hillary had it on her to-read list, but I forgot to remove the underline. But maybe I’ll reread before I return to the UK.
November 7, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Damn Gravity’s Rainbow…
November 7, 2007 at 3:15 pm
This in neat, I’m going to put this on my site!
November 7, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Oh, and Gulliver’s Travels should be italicized and underlined. I’ve read portions of it in anthologies and we have a cool illustrated edition at home that I plan to tackle one of these days.