Yoink!
So I totally stole this from Rachel. This list is called the "106 Books of Pretension". I'm totally stealing the key to the formatting too: *books I've never even heard of*, books I've heard of but never read, books I've read, and books I've started but never finished or read only part of.
1. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
2. Anna Karenina (it's a really long fucking book)
3. Crime and Punishment (another ridiculously long book)
4. Catch-22
5. *One Hundred Years of Solitude*
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi : a novel
9. *The Name of the Rose*
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. *Madame Bovary*
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. *The Brothers Karamazov*
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. *The Time Traveler’s Wife*
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. *The Blind Assassin*
26. The Kite Runner
27. *Mrs. Dalloway*
28. Great Expectations
29. *American Gods*
30. *A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius*
31. *Atlas Shrugged*
32. *Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. *Middlesex*
35. *Quicksilver*
36. Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
37. The Canterbury tales
38. *The Historian : a novel*
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. *The Fountainhead*
43. *Foucault’s Pendulum*
44. *Middlemarch*
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. *Anansi Boys*
50. *The Once and Future King*
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. *The Poisonwood Bible : a novel*
53. 1984
54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
56. *The Satanic Verses*
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
61. *To the Lighthouse*
62. *Tess of the D’Urbervilles*
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver’s Travels
65. Les Misérables
66. *The Corrections*
67. *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. *A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present*
75. *Cryptonomicon*
76. *Neverwhere*
77. *A Confederacy of Dunces*
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. *Dubliners*
80. *The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
81. *Beloved*
82. Slaughterhouse-five
83. The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. *Oryx and Crake : a novel*
87. *Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed*
88. *Cloud Atlas*
89. *The Confusion*
90. *Lolita*
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. *On the Road*
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. *Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything*
97. *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values*
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down
100. *Gravity’s Rainbow*
101. The Hobbit
102. *In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
103. *White Teeth*
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers
Books I've never even heard of: 44
Books I've heard of but never read: 27
Books I've read: 25
Books I've started but never finished or read only part of: 10
All told, I don't think I did that bad. Maybe I'll even finish some of the books I've started but never fnished...
1. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
2. Anna Karenina (it's a really long fucking book)
3. Crime and Punishment (another ridiculously long book)
4. Catch-22
5. *One Hundred Years of Solitude*
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi : a novel
9. *The Name of the Rose*
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. *Madame Bovary*
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. *The Brothers Karamazov*
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. *The Time Traveler’s Wife*
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. *The Blind Assassin*
26. The Kite Runner
27. *Mrs. Dalloway*
28. Great Expectations
29. *American Gods*
30. *A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius*
31. *Atlas Shrugged*
32. *Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. *Middlesex*
35. *Quicksilver*
36. Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
37. The Canterbury tales
38. *The Historian : a novel*
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. *The Fountainhead*
43. *Foucault’s Pendulum*
44. *Middlemarch*
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. *Anansi Boys*
50. *The Once and Future King*
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. *The Poisonwood Bible : a novel*
53. 1984
54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
56. *The Satanic Verses*
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
61. *To the Lighthouse*
62. *Tess of the D’Urbervilles*
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver’s Travels
65. Les Misérables
66. *The Corrections*
67. *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. *A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present*
75. *Cryptonomicon*
76. *Neverwhere*
77. *A Confederacy of Dunces*
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. *Dubliners*
80. *The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
81. *Beloved*
82. Slaughterhouse-five
83. The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. *Oryx and Crake : a novel*
87. *Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed*
88. *Cloud Atlas*
89. *The Confusion*
90. *Lolita*
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. *On the Road*
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. *Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything*
97. *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values*
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down
100. *Gravity’s Rainbow*
101. The Hobbit
102. *In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
103. *White Teeth*
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers
Books I've never even heard of: 44
Books I've heard of but never read: 27
Books I've read: 25
Books I've started but never finished or read only part of: 10
All told, I don't think I did that bad. Maybe I'll even finish some of the books I've started but never fnished...