Books Meme
Yoinked this from Neheti :0)
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.
And [bracket] the books you own but haven't read yet.
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
Emma
*Atlas Shrugged*
The Canterbury Tales
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
*The Fountainhead*
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
The Once and Future King
1984 <-----------------------
Sense and Sensibility
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Neverwhere
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lolita
Persuasion
The Catcher in the Rye
Watership Down
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
The Scarlet Letter
Don Quixote
Ulysses
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
The Tale of Two Cities
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Anansi Boys
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon <--------------------
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
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
the Aeneid
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Heh, I think we should add something like... put *asterisks* around the titles that you've read, but can't recall except for a vague sense of dread (they must have been sooo ... life-changing) strike through titles that are just overrated and people really shouldn't bother with (The ones I struck through give me hives)... and put giant arrows <------------ next to the ones that you think people MUST read. :0) So um, yeah. I added that.
I must admit though, there are several books on here that I really want to read! Don't poke the lit major. I'm finishing up my last french lit class. *does a happy dance* A lovely book entitled Mère Solitude has most recently kicked my butt. For those of you who don't read in french, the title in english is Mother Solitude. I suggest reading this one in your native language, because holy moly... non-linear absurd subversive literature by a haitian in exile... it's a trip and a half. :0)
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.
And [bracket] the books you own but haven't read yet.
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
Emma
*Atlas Shrugged*
The Canterbury Tales
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
*The Fountainhead*
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
The Once and Future King
1984 <-----------------------
Sense and Sensibility
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Neverwhere
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lolita
Persuasion
The Catcher in the Rye
Watership Down
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
The Scarlet Letter
Don Quixote
Ulysses
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
The Tale of Two Cities
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Anansi Boys
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon <--------------------
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
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
the Aeneid
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Heh, I think we should add something like... put *asterisks* around the titles that you've read, but can't recall except for a vague sense of dread (they must have been sooo ... life-changing) strike through titles that are just overrated and people really shouldn't bother with (The ones I struck through give me hives)... and put giant arrows <------------ next to the ones that you think people MUST read. :0) So um, yeah. I added that.
I must admit though, there are several books on here that I really want to read! Don't poke the lit major. I'm finishing up my last french lit class. *does a happy dance* A lovely book entitled Mère Solitude has most recently kicked my butt. For those of you who don't read in french, the title in english is Mother Solitude. I suggest reading this one in your native language, because holy moly... non-linear absurd subversive literature by a haitian in exile... it's a trip and a half. :0)