book meme

[purlewe]

Thanks Auntiero

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.

Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.



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  - I refused to read the last chapter. HATED this.
Ulysses  - Should try again with this.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre* LOVED this.
The Tale of Two Cities read too soon after Les Mis, and felt like I was re-reading. Should try again.
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife* Loved this.
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin usually love this author, but not this one.
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 - on my bookshelf and I should give this another try.
Memoirs of a Geisha* loved this
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - not a fan, but I should retry again.
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* - really liked this.
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse - and ever since I have not been able to read Woolf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - ye gods how I hated this. Never read Hardy again.
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections* loved this.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay* loved this
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune* loved this
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things - my most favrotie book ever, and my most recommended read besides handmaid's Tale
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
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* loved this.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences* adore this.
White Teeth This was the most worthless read I ever read and I wished I had tossed it midway thru.
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers 

Comments

[geekwitch.livejournal.com]

Wow Neil Gaiman, and Strange and Norrell made it to the "look smart" list?

Cool.

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

true.

plus corrections and kavelier and clay. silly huh?

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

but see I also feel there are several really good graphic novels that are often overlooked. Persopolis is oen I am reading right now. From Hell is another. I could go on!!

All 3 of your books that you would read again and recommend are some of my favorites.

Hope you are feeling better today.