Another book meme
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mschatelaineAccording to a LibraryThing survey, these 106 works are the ones most often marked as “unread”, That is, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.
Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude (just bought this one, will be reading it this month, honest)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion*
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose (I really enjoyed the film; I should get back to this one)
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey* (great story, I read it when I was eleven)
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
Great Expectations
American Gods**
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (and you won't find it on my shelves, either)
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 (nor this)
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: a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (started Purgatorio but I never finished it)
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 Klay
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 (I prefer The Science of Discworld)
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
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 : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers*
I'm not sure what this says about me, except perhaps that if I'm not enjoying a book, I rarely struggle through it to the end. And that I don't often buy a book 'just because I ought to'. And that I like Dumas and I think Ayn Rand was a strident nutbar.
Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.
Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude (just bought this one, will be reading it this month, honest)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion*
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose (I really enjoyed the film; I should get back to this one)
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey* (great story, I read it when I was eleven)
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
Great Expectations
American Gods**
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (and you won't find it on my shelves, either)
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 (nor this)
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: a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (started Purgatorio but I never finished it)
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 Klay
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 (I prefer The Science of Discworld)
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
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 : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers*
I'm not sure what this says about me, except perhaps that if I'm not enjoying a book, I rarely struggle through it to the end. And that I don't often buy a book 'just because I ought to'. And that I like Dumas and I think Ayn Rand was a strident nutbar.
