Book meme

[cnoocy]

Nabbed from bookishfellow.

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 as did BF, I'm starring the ones sitting unread on my shelf. I'm daggering the ones that lumpybeast has read. Never mind, I'm just daggering the ones I know we have and that she's read. I'm not running up and down the stairs to do this.


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 [many years ago.]
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
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 (So much better than Frankenstein.)
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel†
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 [So good!]
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 : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas [Super-awesome]
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 [I've read pieces in Latin, but I didn't get through the whole thing in English until a couple of years ago.]
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

Comments

[touchstone.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe they need some additional categories, for things like 'I've read pieces of it, but never TRIED to read it front to back' and 'Huh. You know, that's on our shelves but I've never gotten around to starting it' :)

[cnoocy]

Maybe different colors?

[flynngrrl.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to hit up the Curious Adventure of the Dog in the Night-time.

Oh no, wait. As I was writing this, I remember that I read it!

Shit, now I have to re-do my graphs.