Oct 11, 2007 20:49
bold what you've read
italicize what you started but couldn't finish
strike out what you couldn't stand
underline what you intend to read
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude [WORST BOOK EVER]
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales
Life of Pi: A Novel [AAAUUuuGGGHHH]
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice [maybe the new annotated edition would encourage me to try again]
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner [Harvard Bookstore is scornful of you, Kite-Runner-buyer]
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations [I was a catatonic, drooling mess when I finished this]
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex [perhaps 1 day... it's really stuck around, so maybe it IS good. maybe.]
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Time Traveler's Wife [see Kite Runner]
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
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel [see Middlesex]
1984
Angels & Demons [?!??! though I did read the DaVinci Code...]
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses [and Midnight's Children]
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 Travel
Les Misérables
The Corrections [blechhh]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay [4.5 stars, seriously delicious book]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time [popular because it was gimmicky]
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
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved [THE OTHER WORST BOOK EVER]
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed [recommended reading for China's entire Politburo]
Cloud Atlas [stopped & started many times; devoured the last 400+ pages]
The Confusion
Lolita [but I didn't get like 90% of it; annotated re-read in order]
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road [boring as fuck]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics [2 or 3 chapters to go...]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down [some of the best story-telling I've ever encountered]
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth [but I've read On Beauty, doesn't that count, since I heard they are exactly the same]
Treasure Island
David Copperfield [no more Dickens for lyFe]
The Three Musketeers
[uhh... The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle's not on here..?]