Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Anna Karenina - levin's storyline is twelve times more interesting than anna's
Life of Pi
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment - love this
One Hundred Years of Solitude* - looooove this
Vanity Fair
The Silmarillion
Ulysses - need to read this
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
The Brothers Karamazov
Catch-22*
Wuthering Heights
The Blind Assassin
Quicksilver
A Tale of Two Cities* fuck you, dickens
The Satanic Verses - salman rushdie, you rule and marry hot women
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi - surprisingly boring
The Name of the Rose
The Kor'an
Moby Dick
The Odyssey
The Canterbury Tales - has a medieval rimjob!
Love in the Time of Cholera - florintino ariza is pathetic but marquez is incredible
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Foucault's Pendulum
Atlas Shrugged
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner gah there is no reason for me not to have read this yet, considering my huge faulkner boner
The Iliad
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Emma by Jane Austen
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Guns, Germs, and Steel should finish this
Dracula yay!
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - i oughta go back to this, i loved his other one
Oliver Twist PUKE PUKE
The Once and Future King
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf wah i'm told i'll love this
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Great Expectations
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Underworld by Don DeLillo - white noise is so good
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Grapes of Wrath
Jane Eyre aaand wide sargasso sea.
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - it's on my shelf now, i just need time
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - HATE MARK TWAIN
The Divine Comedy
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - yuck ayn rand
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - wanta reeeeadd
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy gorgeous
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and…
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Dubliners by James Joyce must reread
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Beloved by Toni Morrison* yay!
Persuasion by Jane Austen - jane austen is vastly overrated.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
i have absolutely NO IDEA what the criteria were for choosing these books as the 106 "most unread", but whatever, bored before thursday night tv.