Book MeMe

[tjs_whatnot]

 The famous book meme.....
Gakked from madam_minnie

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strikethrough what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A 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
Atlas Shrugged*
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
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
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
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 5
The Scarlett 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
The Three Musketeers

Although there are some on this list that I have read and would NEVER, EVER read again (yeah, I'm talking to you Poisonwood Bible!) I can't really say that I hated any of them. I have a hard time not finishing a book I've started and a really hard time not liking--or at least admiring--books that I finish. What's that called? Oh yeah, a Catch-22!

Comments

[ms-worplesdon.livejournal.com]

Nice! I have to do this immediately!

Just curious, what's the deal with Ayn Rand? I couldn't get very far before I said "Oh to hell with this!" (I had a similar reaction to Gertrude Stein) so I'd like to understand. Maybe I'm just shallow... it is a very real possibility.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Ayn Rand is an acquired taste--and no indication to your depth--believe me! First time I read her, I was in love with a certain type of book and film--black and white and about ideals. THen I introduced them to my brother in law who devoured them like I have never seen him do to anything and he wanted to talk about them constantly. So I read them again to keep up with him. I do love her characters though but wish sometimes that the story wasn't so long winded and obsessed with shoving her ideals down your throat. I would have preferred more subtleties.

[dulcamatrix.livejournal.com]

i have read like only six on this list.
what a testament to my literary prowness.

*pout*

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't sweat it! They're on this list for a reason...no one has read them. I just went through a phase where I made myself read things that were good for me.

So, what were the six?

[dulcamatrix.livejournal.com]

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wicked (giggle)
The Grapes of Wrath (read this... amazing)
Angela's Ashes
The Mists of Avalon
The Catcher in the Rye
Watership Down
The Hobbit (actually, i listened to it on cd)
and i read bits and pieces of Don Quixote in a class.
actually, that is where i picked my LJ name, Dulcamatrix... i loved the name Dulcinea, but it was taken on lj. so i made one up around it. don't you just love the idea that there is someone out there lamenting and pining for you? and you have no idea who, and never will?
it makes me mushy.
lol.

so i guess that makes eight books, not seven.
and one of them is WICKED. goodlord.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

I have never read Don Quioxte but really want to. I've had so many people say that I must...and it's usually after they've read something that I've written...so I have this terrible fear that I have been ripping off stuff from it for years without knowing it!

[dulcamatrix.livejournal.com]

lol.
unconscious larceny.

lol.

i want to read it too.
the whole thing. don quixote was one messed up dude.
i like them that way.
no preconceived notions.
*smirk*

[dulcamatrix.livejournal.com]

ps

i have Vanity Fair and In Cold Blood on my "to read" pile at this very moment.
and i will get to them, after i finish my smutty historical romance novel.
lol.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

I tried to get through Vanity Fair and I just couldn't do it. I might have had overload as I had just finished a few Jane Austen books before that and there is only so much countryside and vindicative, polite girls I can take in one sitting...maybe another time...

[dulcamatrix.livejournal.com]

POLITELY VINDICTIVE!!!
LOLOLOL!

if i'm not mistaken... couldn't one also call that passive aggressive??

*snerk*