Library Thing's 106 most owned-but-never-read books: where I stand.

[jessek]

A friend posted this on her livejournal, thought i'd see how i stack up

bold = read
italic = own but need to read
underline = started but never finished
strikethrough = will never read

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (note: there's a reason why i bought the hardcover for $3)
  
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• Catch-22
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (in college this was one of the biggest assigned reading surprises I had, I was kicking myself for not having read Marquez for years)
• 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
• The 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 (I *HATE* AYN RAND)
• 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 (FUCKING AYN RAND I HATE YOU SO MUCH)
• Foucault’s Pendulum (this, along with Gravity's Rainbow are casualties of not having any reading for pleasure time in school)
  
• 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
• 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
• 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 (read parts of this in college, e.g. "Araby" and "The Dead")
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Beloved (i'm sorry, i respect Morrison's talent and her life, but I really have no interest in her books, i read The Bluest Eye in college and it just didn't wow me, I know, I'm a terrible person)
• Slaughterhouse-five
• The Scarlet Letter (oh god  I thought I'd never finish)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• The Mists of Avalon
• Oryx and Crake: a novel (Maybe I'll read this someday... The Handmaid's Tale was actually a lot better than I thought it'd be)
• 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
• In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
• White Teeth
• Treasure Island
• David Copperfield
• The Three Musketeers