May 20, 2008

  • I got this meme from Just Making It Up As I Go. It is supposedly a list of the 106 most unread books on shelves. I don’t know how they figured that out, especially as there are some very readable books on the list . 

     

     The rules are to bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.

     

    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
    Madame Bovary
    The Odyssey
    Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Eyre
    The [A] Tale of Two Cities
    The Brothers Karamazov
    Guns, Germs, and Steel
    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
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    Atlas Shrugged
    Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
    Memoirs of a Geisha (great book)

    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 - My book Group is reading this in a couple of months.
    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
    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 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 (very readable. His next one, Tis, was much less so) 

    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
    Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
    Cloud Atlas
    The Confusion
    Lolita
    Persuasion
    Northanger Abbey
    The 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
    In Cold Blood

    White Teeth
    Treasure Island
    David Copperfield

     

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