"teardrop on the fire of a confession"
because the day stretches before me like a yawning abyss of dalliance and raindrops...
yoinked from oftherain:
Key: Bold the ones I've read, italicize the ones I started but didn't finish, asterisk beside the ones I read multiple times, $ beside the ones I own and haven't read/finished.
top 106 unread books from librarything
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods - read this one on my trip to the maritimes last year
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir - covertly borrowed this one from the school library when i worked there in grade 11. because i was fascinated with ireland. then when i got to the colourful parts... well... let's say it was one of those books that enlightened me. (really good. i do recommend it!)
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye $ - just got this one from work. will eventually get around to reading it.
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 $ - one day...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield $
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma $
Foucault’s Pendulum $
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
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 - one of the ones my dad started reading to me and my sister when we were little. i remember lilliput and brobdingnag but not much else.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit * - my teachers in grade six and grade eight english attempted to read this to us and never finished. i finally just got my own copy and read it through.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - another classic my dad tried to read us. we all gave up when mr. hugo's sprawling descriptions got too tiresome for everyone involved.
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre $
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park - the first and last austen i attempted to read. now that i'm older, i may have a crack at pride and prejudice one day... guess that's why these are on the list.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey $
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist - one of my silly, irrational fears that my parents would laugh at my choice of reading materials led me to start reading this on the sly in grade seven with the help of the internet. i eventually broke down and asked them if i could get my own copy and they didn't bat an eyelash.
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 $ - working on it right now!
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers - rollicking good adventure!
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down - thanks to pipkin
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West - again, thanks to pipkin
Wuthering Heights $ - ye gads! i tried! (again, in grade seven) i borrowed it from the school library (braving the nasty scottish librarian) and dutifully pulled it out to read during reading time... but it was so big and it barely fit in my desk and it was kind of boring. maybe one day i'll get back to it...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into value
in summary: i have read 10! and, at some point during my short and distracted life, i have at least begun 5 of them. pretty poor showing, but there it is. today's literary reflection.
yoinked from oftherain:
Key: Bold the ones I've read, italicize the ones I started but didn't finish, asterisk beside the ones I read multiple times, $ beside the ones I own and haven't read/finished.
top 106 unread books from librarything
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods - read this one on my trip to the maritimes last year
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir - covertly borrowed this one from the school library when i worked there in grade 11. because i was fascinated with ireland. then when i got to the colourful parts... well... let's say it was one of those books that enlightened me. (really good. i do recommend it!)
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye $ - just got this one from work. will eventually get around to reading it.
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 $ - one day...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield $
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma $
Foucault’s Pendulum $
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
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 - one of the ones my dad started reading to me and my sister when we were little. i remember lilliput and brobdingnag but not much else.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit * - my teachers in grade six and grade eight english attempted to read this to us and never finished. i finally just got my own copy and read it through.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - another classic my dad tried to read us. we all gave up when mr. hugo's sprawling descriptions got too tiresome for everyone involved.
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre $
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park - the first and last austen i attempted to read. now that i'm older, i may have a crack at pride and prejudice one day... guess that's why these are on the list.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey $
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist - one of my silly, irrational fears that my parents would laugh at my choice of reading materials led me to start reading this on the sly in grade seven with the help of the internet. i eventually broke down and asked them if i could get my own copy and they didn't bat an eyelash.
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 $ - working on it right now!
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers - rollicking good adventure!
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down - thanks to pipkin
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West - again, thanks to pipkin
Wuthering Heights $ - ye gads! i tried! (again, in grade seven) i borrowed it from the school library (braving the nasty scottish librarian) and dutifully pulled it out to read during reading time... but it was so big and it barely fit in my desk and it was kind of boring. maybe one day i'll get back to it...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into value
in summary: i have read 10! and, at some point during my short and distracted life, i have at least begun 5 of them. pretty poor showing, but there it is. today's literary reflection.