death and transfiguration on fourteenth street
bold what you have read, italicise that you started but didn't finish, and strike through what you don't ever plan to read ever again. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those marked unread on your lt.
[no underlines as I don't have a librarything.]
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [someday I will actually *finish* this]
Anna Karenina*
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 [OH HAI, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS. I've bought this book twice - and every time I get five pages into it before someone steals it. First my brother, later one of my college roommates. I'm going to go in for my third try but I'm not going to tell anyone about it.]
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights [oh god, angsty emocakes. I was twelve and my aunt had just sent me a box of "classics from her childhood" - I spent the entire summer on the lawn reading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield before I came to the conclusion that the upper-class sucked. ---the next summer I read marx, and dude, we will totally not get into my year of marx.]
The Silmarillion [ugh. ugh. ugh. have you ever tried to read this? the only person I know who actually likes this - and doesn't fall asleep in the middle - is my father. and he's insane]
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose [I have tried and tried and tried and just never managed to finish before I get distracted]
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities* [you must understand, Sidney Carton was my first literary crush]
The Brothers Karamazov* [I once spent a six hour bus ride in an argument over which was better; War and Peace or 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 [this I am reading *right now*]
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
Quicksilver*
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a Novel [my aunt desperately wants me to read this book; she's sent me three copies, I just never manage to finish]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead*
Foucault's Pendulum [I've no idea what this is about but it's likely that I'll never read it because i hate, hate, hate foucault. my brother and I have long discussions about foucault that degenerate into "I hate him more!", "no, *I* hate him more!"
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange [I think I read this before I was old enough to understand]
Anansi Boys*
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath [east of eden is much, much better]
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984
Angels & Demons [delay on the way from san fransisco to portland]
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 [blah, blah, blah]
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay* [love, love, love]
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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five*
The Scarlet Letter [second year english, oh god. this book is irrevocably tied to memories of my english teacher and her two missing fingers.]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation [it didn't stick]
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down [my dad started reading this to us when I was nine or so and I absolutely loved it until one of the bunnies died. I still haven't recovered]
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
Huh. I kind of want to go to the bookstore now.
SGA 4.04 was possibly the best episode ever. However will they live up to that next week?
MORAL (OP. 2)
Read, as the dreamer reads,
Only between the lines.
Everything else is indubitably
A misprint, a devilish misprint.
- Kenneth Fearing