ashamed to lie
Nicked from dorukai.
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange*
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote --- I've read Monsignor Quixote, does that count?
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein* --- god, liek, possibly one of the most perfectly structured books ever!
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre* --- every woman should read this, omg
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* --- oh Susanna how I heart thee
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch --- that's how much in love with Rufus Sewell I was at the time
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere*
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion*
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles ---- AAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH!!! *stabs Hardy*
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses --- hey, I'm workin' on it, I've got til August
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
Realised today I may have a problem. Cos lately I've been reading so much and only want more and more, like I'm ravening. Ravenous for something my brain can bite into and just chew and chew and chew and be totally absorbed in the process. DVDs don't help, knitting doesn't help, porn doesn't help. Last night I logged off, looked around my studio and was completely at a loss as to what to do next. Jesus fucking Christ.
I think I'm just really Bored. Intellectually so.
Still trying to find Barnes' new book. Was most amused to see, while scouring Dymocks, that they've got Bob Carr signing in the morning and Neil Gaiman in the arvo next Wednesday. Was quite unamused to see the contents of M Is For Magic. Not cool, Neil. I said nothing when I noticed a few Smoke & Mirrors stories reappear in Fragile Things but really this is so not cool. Must be a publishers targeting children thing, is all I can surmise.
And entirely tickled to be told that Bob Carr is the most voracious reader who has his personal assistant call up for books --- "look, he's just come back from Europe and he really wants to get into European philosophy, now he's read the Tolstoy stuff, what else have you got?" --- and that his driver is in the store so often the staff know him quite well. To be told this by a Dymocks cashier is entirely too bloody impressive. Also made me feel less guilty about all the books I've been buying and devouring lately.
People have Dan Brown on their bookshelves to make them look smart or wellrounded? What are they, retarded?
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange*
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote --- I've read Monsignor Quixote, does that count?
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein* --- god, liek, possibly one of the most perfectly structured books ever!
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre* --- every woman should read this, omg
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* --- oh Susanna how I heart thee
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch --- that's how much in love with Rufus Sewell I was at the time
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere*
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion*
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles ---- AAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH!!! *stabs Hardy*
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses --- hey, I'm workin' on it, I've got til August
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
Realised today I may have a problem. Cos lately I've been reading so much and only want more and more, like I'm ravening. Ravenous for something my brain can bite into and just chew and chew and chew and be totally absorbed in the process. DVDs don't help, knitting doesn't help, porn doesn't help. Last night I logged off, looked around my studio and was completely at a loss as to what to do next. Jesus fucking Christ.
I think I'm just really Bored. Intellectually so.
Still trying to find Barnes' new book. Was most amused to see, while scouring Dymocks, that they've got Bob Carr signing in the morning and Neil Gaiman in the arvo next Wednesday. Was quite unamused to see the contents of M Is For Magic. Not cool, Neil. I said nothing when I noticed a few Smoke & Mirrors stories reappear in Fragile Things but really this is so not cool. Must be a publishers targeting children thing, is all I can surmise.
And entirely tickled to be told that Bob Carr is the most voracious reader who has his personal assistant call up for books --- "look, he's just come back from Europe and he really wants to get into European philosophy, now he's read the Tolstoy stuff, what else have you got?" --- and that his driver is in the store so often the staff know him quite well. To be told this by a Dymocks cashier is entirely too bloody impressive. Also made me feel less guilty about all the books I've been buying and devouring lately.
People have Dan Brown on their bookshelves to make them look smart or wellrounded? What are they, retarded?