Unread Book Meme-Time

[mlerules]

The Meme:

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."

The List:

Addendum
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
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*
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
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
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
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 (it's in the stack of books I'm currently reading)
Cryptonomicon (it's in the stack of books I'm currently reading)
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*
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island*
David Copperfield

Comments

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

I've only just begun. We'll see how it goes. Not my usual cup o' tea, but I've got a couple of friends who swear by it (at least one of whom has turned me onto another good author - John Crowley) so'll give it a chance at least.

What else are you reading these days?

[evilgerbil.livejournal.com]

I really loved Snowcrash, but Crypt is just soooo long. I am 400 pages in and am still waiting to find out how the different storylines tie together. It is probably just hard for me to read because I am mechanically disinclined and when he goes off for 5 pages about information theory leading up to how the various crypto machines work, my eyes glaze over. I'm slogging hrough it though! Also reading Call of the Wild, and picked up Love in the Time of Cholera at the bf's family's house. I looked on my bookshelf and I don't think I have anything I haven't read that isn't depressing: Valley of the Dolls, Heart of Darkness, Love in the time of Cholera, Portrait of Dorian Grey. I need happy books!

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Too much techie stuff makes my eyes glaze over as well. It's why I read Hunt For Red October then avoided Tom Clancy like the plague.

If'n you want Happy Books, go grab and read just about anything by PG Wodehouse (the Bertie & Jeeves books are a good place to start). They're light, fun, and well-written.