Book-related memes

[geekchick]

I'm tired of looking at Apache and TWiki configuration files, so why don't I do something vastly more productive? *cough*

Real content. One day I'll have it.

First, the top 106 (why such a random number?) titles most often tagged "unread" on LibraryThing.
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

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 (If I could strike through this twice, I would.)
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 Traveller’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  (Can I strike it through before I've read it?)
    
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West *
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian
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 (Read excerpts in a lingustics class. Ugh.)
49. Anansi Boys
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 (Sensing a theme here?)
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
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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

Via kottke.org, this is a list of the 1001 books you must read before you die, from the book of the same name. No, I have no idea why lots of these were chosen either.

1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
4. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Atonement - Ian McEwan
6. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
7. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
8. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
9. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
10. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
11. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
12. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
13. Possession - A.S. Byatt
14. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
15. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
16. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
17. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
18. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
19. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
20. Beloved - Toni Morrison
21. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
22. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
23. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
24. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
25. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
26. Neuromancer - William Gibson
27. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
28. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
29. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
30. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
31. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
32. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
33. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
34. The World According to Garp - John Irving
35. Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
36. The Shining - Stephen King
37. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
38. Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
39. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
40. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
41. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
42. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
43. The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
44. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
45. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
46. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
47. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
48. Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
49. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
50. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
51. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
52. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
53. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
54. The Story of O - Pauline Réage
55. The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
56. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
57. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
58. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
59. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
60. Animal Farm - George Orwell
61. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
62. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
63. Native Son - Richard Wright
64. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
65. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
66. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
67. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
68. Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
69. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
70. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
71. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
72. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
73. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
74. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
75. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
76. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
77. The Trial - Franz Kafka
78. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
79. Ulysses - James Joyce
80. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
81. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
82. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
83. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
84. Howards End - E.M. Forster
85. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
86. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
87. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
88. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
89. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
90. Dracula - Bram Stoker
91. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
92. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
93. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
95. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
96. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
97. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
98. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
99. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
100. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
101. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
102. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
103. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
104. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
105. Silas Marner - George Eliot
106. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
107. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
108. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
109. The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
110. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
111. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
112. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
113. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
114. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
115. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
116. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
117. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
118. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
119. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
120. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
121. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
122. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
123. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
124. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
125. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
126. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
127. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
128. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
129. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
130. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
131. Candide - Voltaire
132. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
133. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
134. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
135. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
136. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
137. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
138. The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
139. Aesop's Fables - Aesopus

That doesn't include any of several titles on this list that are sitting around waiting for me to get around to ordering them (London Orbital) or reading them (The Robber Bride). Also, haven't indicated which ones I loved and which ones I'd rather have rusty nails driven into my eyeballs than read again (*cough*Ulysses*cough*).