Meme

[moonwise]

I like book memes.

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 I enjoyed this and am looking forward to the movie, but it's just too dense for a second read-through.
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 (Jared Diamond signed my copy, it was such a fangirl moment for me!)
War and Peace Not because of the book, but the person I associate it with.
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
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo You could kill someone with the hardback edition.
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
*The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel One of my favorites.
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 Got very, very tired of this book after a while. It was touted as a feminist manifesto, but I got sick of the man-hate.
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 I don't get why so many people say this is the BESTEST BOOK EVARRRRRR. Holden needed a good punch in the face.
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything EVERYONE GO READ THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit I tried Tolkien. Really I did.
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Comments

[geckophobe.livejournal.com]

I'm going to steal this meme. I blame Wuthering Heights for my rabid devouring of trashy romance novels from 9th grade to present (still one of my favorite books, it's so dog-eared). I blame my high school for having a deficient reading list. I will take no personal responsibility for the fact that I've only read, like, 2% of those titles. :D

I agree with you

[katararei.livejournal.com]

I love memes because they tell you what are the "Classics" that everyone is supposed to read yet...sometimes never get around to it. Hope you don't mind if I copy this list as well. I think I can only bold a few seeing as I read all the other insignificant stuff out there :p