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A book meme, of course
Via Penguin Unearthed, a long list of the 106 most unread books on shelves. The rules, as interpreted by la Penguin are to bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. It’s an odd, eclectic list and I seem to have given away an awful lot of the ones I have actually read. Surprizing how many I have actually read, though. Interestingly, very few of the ‘big’ novels of recent times would make it onto my ‘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 : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick - My favourite book ever, bar none.
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The [A] 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 - but really, you should read the Sandman comics.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Hated it, though.
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 FountainheadI can’t get past the prose style.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King - God, how I loved this book. Still do.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
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 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 - saved for when my exams are finished
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow but I live in hope
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Taggees? Anyone interested, really.
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Goodness, I expected to have read a lot more of them! But then do I get extra points for reading the Jane Austen not on the list (e.g., Lady Susan) or the Lord of the Rings? The Canterbury Tales in Middle English not translated into modern English?
I loved a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. He was a little up himself but I really enjoyed it. Different strokes i suppose
Moby-Dick and The Once and Future King are two of my favorites, too, though I haven’t reread either in years. Interesting, that this version distinguishes between those read in school vs those not. I would not have read either of these books if they hadn’t been assigned reading. What I would have missed!
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It’s kind of fascinating, isn’t it? H, you take all the extra points you want. Dan, it was beautifully written. But I hated it! Cam, do you have Scorpio rising by any chance?
Oooh! Ping-backs!
Read Moby Dick for the very first time this winter and was utterly blown away.
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