Book meme

[bluepoof]

From mswhatsit

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read.

I'm doing the meme mostly because I'd like to know if anyone out there on the Intardwebz would recommend any of the following that I haven't read.

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[etler]

If you like Tolkien you might want to look at the Silmarillion, but I bet you join the ranks of those who bought it but didn't read it. I'm there.

A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present is very interesting if you're interested in history.

[threadwalker]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment.
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose.
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey.
Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel.
War and Peace
Vanity Fair.
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad.
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha.
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
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 KingThe Grapes of Wrath

[threadwalker]

About half of those left I've read excerpts from, even shortened versions. Got a few on the shelves and to-read, got a few half read. :) Have you encountered "Goodreads.com". Booklists, recommendations from friends, etc. I'm on there.

[threadwalker]

I just sent you an invite.

[lusty]

Anansi Boys --most excellent
The Poisonwood Bible --I loved it
Cryptonomicon is a long slow read, but I enjoyed it
A Short History of Nearly Everything is good; I'm still reading it
Atlas Shrugged I never finished because I broke up with the boyfriend who owned the copy I was reading, but I was enjoying it
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a cute book, perhaps a little plodding. It's my read in the tub while soaking book, which is odd because it's a little unwieldy for that, but whatever ;-)

[mswhatsit]

"A Short History of Nearly Everything. (The only Bill Bryson book I've never read)"

WHAT WHAT WHAT?! You must remedy this, post-haste.

Also, if you liked Guns, Germs and Steel, you'll probably like Collapse also.

[randomcamel]

Heh. My first choice for that list would actually be _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ (which I did read, on the second try, but only because I was cruising on a sailboat and had lots of time).