well read?
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book meme from
peace_bloom these are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by librarything's users [as of today]. Bold what you have read, italicize that you started but couldn't finish (or haven't finished yet), 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.
I've also marked books i've seen/heard versions of but haven't READ for reasons discussed below. (~)
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi : A Novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote ~
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice ~
16. Jane Eyre
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma ~
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. Great Expectations ~
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian : A Novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. Middlemarch
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula ~
48. A Clockwork Orange ~
49. Anansi Boys (I confess i listened to an unabridged recording of it, but it was totally awesome... read by Lenny Henry!)
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible
53. 1984
54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility ~
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels
65. Les Misérables ~
66. The Corrections
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela's Ashes
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners
80. The unbearable lightness of being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughterhouse-Five
83. The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake : a Novel
87. Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~
96. Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit*
102. In Cold Blood
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers ~
Jen is SOOOOO not into classics....
I appreciate the stories, but as much as i appreciate that the style of writing was awesome for it's time, i just don't enjoy incredibly dense writing in a pre-visual sense (i DO for example enjoy the richness of Atwood, Allende etc) A lot of these books though i know (and LOVE) the story - eg three musketeers, the Austen's, the Greek works, the Gothic works - but i just lose interest in reading the texts and since reading for me is an enjoyment exercise...
hmm
lol.
I feel like a bit of an intellectual fraud now lol.