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alexiscartwheel) wrote2008-05-02 08:35 am
alexiscartwheel) wrote2008-05-02 08:35 am
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LibraryThing Meme
This meme popped up on the LibraryThing blog and on my f-list yesterday, and it's about books! The list below is the top 106 books tagged as "unread" on LibraryThing, as of this morning, May 2. I really want to know who decided this would be a 106 item list. Why not 105, or just an even 100?
The rules:
Bold books you have read, italicize books you started but didn’t finish, andstrikethrough books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once and underline those on your to be read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One hundred years of solitude
Crime and punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote - I read an abridged version in AP Spanish.
The Odyssey
The brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
War and peace
*Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The name of the rose
Moby Dick
The Iliad
*Emma
Vanity fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury tales - We read parts in AP Lit. I mostly didn't pay attention.
*Pride and prejudice
The historian
Great Expectations - Again, an abridged version in school.
The kite runner
*The time traveler's wife
Life of Pi
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
Atlas shrugged
Foucault's pendulum
Dracula
The grapes of wrath
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Frankenstein
*Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlemarch
*Sense and sensibility
The Count of Monte Cristo - Abridged, school, yadda yadda.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The sound and the fury
Brave New World
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I)
American gods
Middlesex
The poisonwood Bible
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
A portrait of the artist as a young man
The picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
The satanic verses
Gulliver's travels
Mansfield Park
The three musketeers
The corrections
The inferno
Oliver Twist
The Fountainhead
To the lighthouse
A clockwork orange
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
*Persuasion
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The scarlet letter
Robinson Crusoe
Anansi boys
The once and future king
Atonement
The god of small things
A short history of nearly everything
Oryx and Crake
Dubliners
Cryptonomicon
Angela's ashes
Beloved
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
The hunchback of Notre Dame
In cold blood
Lady Chatterley's lover
A confederacy of dunces
Les misérables
Watership Down
The prince
*The amber spyglass
Beowulf : a new verse translation
A farewell to arms
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
The Aeneid
Treasure Island
Sons and lovers
David Copperfield
The road
Possession
Tom Jones
The book thief
Gravity's rainbow
The War of the Worlds
Tender is the night
Candide
Never let me go
The plague
Jude the obscure
Cold mountain
The totals
Read: 30
Unfinished: 10
Unread: 66
Disliked: 1
To read: 5
I included abridged versions that were assigned in high school in the unfinished category, and limited "to read" books to my current list (yes, it's actually written down) and the books I own. I don't use the "unread" tag on LibraryThing, but if I did, only three of my books would appear on this list.
And my apologies to William Faulkner. I didn't love every book I read from this list, but The Sound and the Fury was the only one I disliked enough for it to earn a strikethrough. Caddy smelled like trees. I get it. It didn't help it that I had a bit of a personality conflict with my American Lit teacher that year. (I made her cry. Whoops.) Because of William Faulkner I was a bad English major and avoided all modernism courses in college. So there you have it.
The rules:
Bold books you have read, italicize books you started but didn’t finish, and
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One hundred years of solitude
Crime and punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote - I read an abridged version in AP Spanish.
The Odyssey
The brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
War and peace
*Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The name of the rose
Moby Dick
The Iliad
*Emma
Vanity fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury tales - We read parts in AP Lit. I mostly didn't pay attention.
*Pride and prejudice
The historian
Great Expectations - Again, an abridged version in school.
The kite runner
*The time traveler's wife
Life of Pi
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
Atlas shrugged
Foucault's pendulum
Dracula
The grapes of wrath
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Frankenstein
*Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlemarch
*Sense and sensibility
The Count of Monte Cristo - Abridged, school, yadda yadda.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I)
American gods
Middlesex
The poisonwood Bible
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
A portrait of the artist as a young man
The picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
The satanic verses
Gulliver's travels
Mansfield Park
The three musketeers
The corrections
The inferno
Oliver Twist
The Fountainhead
To the lighthouse
A clockwork orange
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
*Persuasion
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The scarlet letter
Robinson Crusoe
Anansi boys
The once and future king
Atonement
The god of small things
A short history of nearly everything
Oryx and Crake
Dubliners
Cryptonomicon
Angela's ashes
Beloved
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
The hunchback of Notre Dame
In cold blood
Lady Chatterley's lover
A confederacy of dunces
Les misérables
Watership Down
The prince
*The amber spyglass
Beowulf : a new verse translation
A farewell to arms
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
The Aeneid
Treasure Island
Sons and lovers
David Copperfield
The road
Possession
Tom Jones
The book thief
Gravity's rainbow
The War of the Worlds
Tender is the night
Candide
Never let me go
The plague
Jude the obscure
Cold mountain
The totals
Read: 30
Unfinished: 10
Unread: 66
Disliked: 1
To read: 5
I included abridged versions that were assigned in high school in the unfinished category, and limited "to read" books to my current list (yes, it's actually written down) and the books I own. I don't use the "unread" tag on LibraryThing, but if I did, only three of my books would appear on this list.
And my apologies to William Faulkner. I didn't love every book I read from this list, but The Sound and the Fury was the only one I disliked enough for it to earn a strikethrough. Caddy smelled like trees. I get it. It didn't help it that I had a bit of a personality conflict with my American Lit teacher that year. (I made her cry. Whoops.) Because of William Faulkner I was a bad English major and avoided all modernism courses in college. So there you have it.