Book meme
Stolen from my wife after distracting her with shiny objects.
The books listed below are "the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing’s users."
What I’ve read is in bold, what I haven't read is in plaintext, and what I never actually finished reading all the way through--not yet, anyway--is struck through.
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary - True story: when I was five, my Mom had volume of Flaubert works on her nighstand which I picked after I was done reading all my age appropiate books. Years later I sat down to read this one and I kept going "Hey, I remember this!"
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities - Egads! A Dickens novel I haven't read!
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
* The Time Traveler's Wife - I cried like a baby even if some parts made me roll my eyes.
* The Iliad
* Emma
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner
* Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations - I love this one.
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
* 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 - This one is "Un Mundo Feliz" right?
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein - Funniest thing ever.
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys - I loved this one much more than American Gods *watches Ambs defriending*
* 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-five
* 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 - Ok, what is the big deal about this book? Seriously, tell me.
* 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
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity's Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers
Wife, is time to hit the books!
The books listed below are "the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing’s users."
What I’ve read is in bold, what I haven't read is in plaintext, and what I never actually finished reading all the way through--not yet, anyway--is struck through.
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary - True story: when I was five, my Mom had volume of Flaubert works on her nighstand which I picked after I was done reading all my age appropiate books. Years later I sat down to read this one and I kept going "Hey, I remember this!"
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities - Egads! A Dickens novel I haven't read!
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
* The Time Traveler's Wife - I cried like a baby even if some parts made me roll my eyes.
* The Iliad
* Emma
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner
* Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations - I love this one.
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
* 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 - This one is "Un Mundo Feliz" right?
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein - Funniest thing ever.
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys - I loved this one much more than American Gods *watches Ambs defriending*
* 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-five
* 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 - Ok, what is the big deal about this book? Seriously, tell me.
* 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
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity's Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers
Wife, is time to hit the books!