The book meme
Stolen from Amanda sweety167
106 books most often listed as "unread" at LibraryThing. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, and cross out the ones you hate. To see how well read we are...
(Added for my own humour… underline the books you have.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
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
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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 - one of my faves, I used to own it before leaving the UK
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 - Another favourite
Angels & Demons (No thanks, I barely finished DaVinci Code. The guy can't write!!!)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and seen it one the stage, too!)
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune - read the entire series by the time I was 15! Owned it for years ...
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (My mum couldn't finish this because it was too true to her own life growing up in Ireland)
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 - I thought this was gripping! How could people NOT finish it!
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake. My favourite recent book.
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
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit. This I kept because it was the first fantasy book I read - it was my prize for topping my Year Seven graduating class!
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences .
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Crime and Punishment
As you see, there's not much on my bookshelves these days. Correction - very little fiction. Moving continents twice in 10 years does that - books are hellish heavy (expensive) to take internationally. When we came back from the UK in 2005, we had seven crates of books and they were mostly non-fiction, text books and lots on my interests such as population genetics, archaeo and ancient history. And travel guides. LOTS of travel guides.
That's why the public library is so important to me - most of the books I read come from there, as we can't really afford to buy too many books!