I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Italics: tried to read and failed
strikethrough: unreadable
bold: have read
*asterixes*: bought, haven’t read yet (I changed this as I don’t give away books). If not classed as unreadable, they're probably on my 'to read' list
*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
*Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights - Never again. Ever. If Brontë must be read, let it be Charlotte!
*The Silmarillion*
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses - Is this the James Joyce one?
*Madame Bovary*
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - Read and re-read so many time I’ve lost count…
Jane Eyre - As above…
A Tale of Two Cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace - Oh my god. Don’t think I’ll ever go back to this one.
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma - Again, the subject of much re-reading. Really Austen is the literary equivalent of comfort food for me.
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 - Why is this here? It’s perfectly read-able!
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
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula - I never drink… ‘wine’. Hah!
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys - EDIT July 2008: Perfectly readable if not as good as American Gods
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984 - Really great book, the dystopian novel, incredibly depressing as well as worrying, and one of the reasons I find the big brother show so creepy
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - Again with the Austen! Why is this difficult?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park - Okay, this one I kinda get. It’s like Jane Eyre, you have to wait for the protagonists to grow up.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse - The second stream of consciousness novel I’ve ever read, much better than the first.
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 - Re-read a number of times. I think it’s the best of the series.
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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon - Put it down in the library and was never interested enough to go looking for it again.
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey - If you read only one Austen, let it not be this one!
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics - Got too irritated with the author’s perspective to continue reading.
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values*
The Aeneid - Surprisingly, I never read this.
*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
Results:
34 Read
10 attempted but failed