Book Meme
Book meme taken from wiebke
Top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing (that sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded).
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. and add * beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged (What's the code for ones you would burn if you were the sort to burn books?)
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov*
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye *
Catch-22*
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces *
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead (Did I mention I despise Ayn Rand?)
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things (recently bought this book)
The Grapes of Wrath *
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit (never got into reading Tolkien, though I tried.)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre (I hate this book and everything by the Brontes)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner (own but haven't read yet.)
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel (own but haven't read yet)
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984*
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist I don't remember reading it though.
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road (haven't read it and feel guilty about it)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray *
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince*
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five*
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife (I hate titles that are about the wife of someone. If it's about her, make it about her, goddamn it! Actually, I wouldn't mind if it was one story, but it's become a cliché)
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses (hard read - will get back to it when I have more time)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I was disappointed that Ayn Rand has two books on the list and Vonnegut only has one. I think it's because Ronald Reagan thought she was the bomb. "Oh look! A Russian that hates Communism and promotes self obsession! GLEE! GLEE! GLEE!" Though admittedly I am very behind on my Russian authors. I need to get my Tolstoy and Dostoevsky read or I will die deprived. Oddly, I've read so much on Dostoevsky and just never picked up his novels. I am in much guilt. It's like listening to NPR all your life and never donating. I love Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn though. He's sort of like being pushed up against the wall and shot and you feel grateful for the privilege. I'm surprised One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich isn't on the list.
I enjoyed reading the list though. Made me think about books I wanted to read or reread because it's been awhile.
Top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing (that sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded).
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. and add * beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged (What's the code for ones you would burn if you were the sort to burn books?)
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov*
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye *
Catch-22*
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces *
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead (Did I mention I despise Ayn Rand?)
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things (recently bought this book)
The Grapes of Wrath *
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit (never got into reading Tolkien, though I tried.)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre (I hate this book and everything by the Brontes)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner (own but haven't read yet.)
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel (own but haven't read yet)
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984*
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist I don't remember reading it though.
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road (haven't read it and feel guilty about it)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray *
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince*
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five*
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife (I hate titles that are about the wife of someone. If it's about her, make it about her, goddamn it! Actually, I wouldn't mind if it was one story, but it's become a cliché)
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses (hard read - will get back to it when I have more time)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I was disappointed that Ayn Rand has two books on the list and Vonnegut only has one. I think it's because Ronald Reagan thought she was the bomb. "Oh look! A Russian that hates Communism and promotes self obsession! GLEE! GLEE! GLEE!" Though admittedly I am very behind on my Russian authors. I need to get my Tolstoy and Dostoevsky read or I will die deprived. Oddly, I've read so much on Dostoevsky and just never picked up his novels. I am in much guilt. It's like listening to NPR all your life and never donating. I love Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn though. He's sort of like being pushed up against the wall and shot and you feel grateful for the privilege. I'm surprised One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich isn't on the list.
I enjoyed reading the list though. Made me think about books I wanted to read or reread because it's been awhile.