Tags: meme
Published : 3 months ago (Mon, 19 May 2008 14:09:48 PDT) Searched: http://rredhead.livejournal.com/50948.html 0 links Related posts
I know this is exciting to no one, but I want to do it anyway. Blah!
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they 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 maisfeekaadded this: [bracket] the books you own but haven't read yet.
It all comes down to: I haven't read far, far more books than I have read. But I did read the unabridged Les Miserables over Christmas break during my senior year of high school, just because I wanted to. So that should count for something.
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 The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The 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 [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 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 1984 Angels & Demons 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 : a memoir ] 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 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 |