Meme: To-read list

[quidditchgrrl]

Gakked from everywhere.  I've an account at LibraryThing here.

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, italicise that you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.



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
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (too simplistic!)
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 Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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 King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
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
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
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 5
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
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



I am as under-read as the rest of the population, it seems.  Har.

Comments

[sadslacker.livejournal.com]

hey you might be able to give me advice. The library claims I didn't return a book that I KNOW i dropped in the overnight slot with the other books I was returning. Am I stuck paying for the book and fine even though I returned it?

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

If you're comfortable with it, email me your name & I'll look into it on Thursday, no problem.

purebloodgryffindor at gee mail dot com

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

Ha, my entire flist is now posting this meme. I had a question for you though - I followed whatever link it was to the DVD aficionado site, and it seems to be missing an FAQ. How does one use the folders?

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Catching up on comments...

I have NO CLUE how to use those things, LOL! It's really weird and not logical. :|

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

:)

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you see the convo about this list on my journal? It's not bad.

I'm impressed by your lack of dislike. There's so many books that I disliked, yet read anyway. So silly.

In Cold Blood is one of my favorites. Def read it. It defined a genre.

Good luck on Ulysses. *thud*

Northanger Abbey is good too. I read it at the same time that I was forced to read all the other Jane Austen and it was the only one I liked. I had a prof that thought the sun rose and set with Austen. By the end of the semester we all wanted to go back in time and stab her with her own pen.

If I were an English Prof I would force my students to read all of Margaret Atwood's books. Oryx and Crake. Great book. Rah. :)

I have Lolita on my To Read pile also. If you are going to read it in the near future, let me know and I'll pick it up.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I need to go through and look at your threads there...have been crazy busy/stupid these past few weeks.

In general, I like most things I read, Moby Dick being a def. exception. And I love train-of-thought writing...so Ulysses might not be so bad for me. :)

I am alllll about Jane Austen, but it's rare to find someone who has read her stuff and can debate her merits/bad points.

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

I like Joyce Carol Oates! LULz Train-of-Thought. I haven't read classic lit in so long.

It's been 24 years since I read Jane Austen. Something tells me that we won't have a very long debate. x_x

I promised to make a positive post on my journal and have not made one yet. I promised myself that I would make MORE posts to my journal and have not done so yet. Why. I dunno. I just don't do it.

I'm reading Jennifer Government right now. It's very entertaining. :)

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Most debates on Jane Austen are short, since people either think she's omgtehbest or they never got past whatever they were assigned in high school.

The only Joyce Carol Oates I've read is her YA novel Big Mouth and Ugly Girl.

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

I read quite a bit of Austen. I'd reread her just to see if my taste has changed - I might give her a chance on audio book. Sometimes I can do audio of authors I don't like in print.

I couldn't begin to name all the Oates I've read over the years. I think the last thing I read was Black Water. I know she's written a lot of other things since then.

I'm glad that most of my favorite writers are contemporary - Mostly Atwood.

I lost Kurt Vonnegut. My mind hurts a little when I think that I'll never get to tell Kurt Vonnegut how much his books meant to me. I should have done it when I had the chance. I plan to do it with Atwood.