Monday, November 19, 2007

Most Unread Books Meme

Meme: The 106 Most Unread Books (according to LibraryThing)

(Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable. And, finally, leave the ones you haven't read as they are.)

I have a lot of reading to do. And I've enjoyed everything I've bolded below.
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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

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

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Atlas Shrugged


Reading Lolita in Tehran

Memoirs of a Geisha

Middlesex

Quicksilver

Wicked

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 & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Aeneid

Watership Down

Gravity’s Rainbow

The Hobbit

In Cold Blood

White Teeth

Treasure Island

David Copperfield

The Three Musketeers

2 comments:

  1. Quite a few really good books here, actually. Some I've read and didn't like at all too, of course. And probably some I've read but missed and some I've marked as read by mistake, heh.

    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

    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

    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    Atlas Shrugged
    Reading Lolita in Tehran

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    Middlesex

    Quicksilver

    Wicked

    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 & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

    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

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    The Aeneid

    Watership Down

    Gravity’s Rainbow

    The Hobbit

    In Cold Blood

    White Teeth

    Treasure Island

    David Copperfield

    The Three Musketeers

    //JJ

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  2. funny how so many of these books are also the the BBC's top 100 list

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