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i've finally made use of my b&n gift card that i've had since my birthday (compliments of my cell group - thanks to all, though i don't think any of them actually read this) & instead of getting books, which i'm quite sure most assumed i would be using if for, i took the opportunity to expand my dvd collection, which had been sorely lacking. normally, it would be books, but my bookshelf is rather stuffed & i am sadly in need of more space. i need to cross things off my book wishlist, darn it! i will admit, however, that i am rather pleased with my purchases, & especially since thanks to b&n having a dvd sale, i was able to get more for my money & as far as i know, only had to shell out a little less than $1 for 10 dvds. i love saving money. :)
& because it's books, i couldn't resist. this is from satakieli, who in turn, got it from numerous others. plus, i'm always on the look-out for more reading material. it never ceases to amaze me what i can get done while waiting on the platform for the train. :)
This is a list of 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. (Or you simply haven't gotten around to it yet, or it's got peculiar associations for you that make you reluctant to finally read or finish it. Let's be a little more charitable, yo.) Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Put ** next to books you own but haven't read yet.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
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: 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
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
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 - read bits & pieces
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 - mostly read, though i skipped bits here & there
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 -sorry, (you know who you are)
The Aeneid
Watership Down - nor do i ever plan on reading this - we have the cartoon at home & it's scarred me for life.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Treasure Island
David Copperfield - i always try to re-read this, but i never get past this one certain point.
The Three Musketeers
as expected, most of the ones i've read are classics of the 18th, into the 19th century. perhaps this is an indication that i need to move into the more modern era when it comes to books, but it's so hard to find good modern literature. maybe this will be a nice jumping off point.
& because it's books, i couldn't resist. this is from satakieli, who in turn, got it from numerous others. plus, i'm always on the look-out for more reading material. it never ceases to amaze me what i can get done while waiting on the platform for the train. :)
This is a list of 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. (Or you simply haven't gotten around to it yet, or it's got peculiar associations for you that make you reluctant to finally read or finish it. Let's be a little more charitable, yo.) Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Put ** next to books you own but haven't read yet.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
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: 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
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
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 - read bits & pieces
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 - mostly read, though i skipped bits here & there
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 -sorry, (you know who you are)
The Aeneid
Watership Down - nor do i ever plan on reading this - we have the cartoon at home & it's scarred me for life.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Treasure Island
David Copperfield - i always try to re-read this, but i never get past this one certain point.
The Three Musketeers
as expected, most of the ones i've read are classics of the 18th, into the 19th century. perhaps this is an indication that i need to move into the more modern era when it comes to books, but it's so hard to find good modern literature. maybe this will be a nice jumping off point.