Jaquandor has a very cool meme based on the list of books most often marked "Unread" on LibraryThing. These are books people have copies of either because they seem necessary on a shelf, or because they're planning to read them in the future (I have many books in the latter category).
You're supposed to bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you've started but not finished. Jaquandor also decided to strike the ones you know you'll never, ever read and don't even own, and mark with a * the ones you own and do intend to read.
Go!
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (I couldn't get through very much of it. Far, far too precious for my tastes.)
* Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (Surprisingly intense.)
* Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (Quite possibly the greatest book ever written.)
Moby Dick (Quite probably the greatest book ever written.)
Ulysses (My advice would be to wait for the edition with punctuation to come out...)
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice (I won't rule it out, although I just don't like Jane Austen.)
Jane Eyre (A beautiful book; I read it a couple of times.)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (I don't own a copy, but I fully intend to read it some day.)
War and Peace (My sister's ex-fiance loved this novel. I'd kind of like to read this one, too.)
* Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife (I've heard a lot of good things here, but I've never given it much thought.)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin (I'm not even really sure what this is.)
The Kite Runner (Loved the movie; wouldn't mind reading it.)
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (I don't care much for Neil Gaiman as a prose writer and I don't have much interest here.)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (I don't know what this is, but it sounds interesting.)
Memoirs of a Geisha (The movie was so crappy that I'm interested to see if the book is any good. I was working at Barnes & Noble when it came out.)
* Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (There's still something about the entire idea of this novel that really rankles me.)
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian (I don't know this.)
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum (Don't own it, but would like to read it.)
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (Gods, I love this book.)
The Grapes of Wrath (This is the Great American Novel.)
The Poisonwood Bible
1984 (Almost everyone reads this in high school, but my class didn't. We read Brave New World instead, which was also a great book, one I like better than 1984. Oddly enough, we saw the movie 1984.)
Angels & Demons (Yeah, right.)
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
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
* Les Misérables
The Corrections (Probably I'll read this.)
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (I very much want to read this.)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune (Love it. I read this in high school.)
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The God of Small Things (Excellent book.)
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present (I read a lot of history, but never this one.)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
* A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners (One Joyce novel per lifetime seems to be my limit.)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved (Sometimes it just kills my interest when things become trendy.)
* Slaughterhouse-Five (I really need to read this. I've only read one Vonnegut book and want to read more.)
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (I adore this book.)
* The Mists of Avalon (Becca loves this novel. I fell in love with Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand, and I'm hoping to like this one, too.)
Oryx and Crake (I don't think I've ever heard of this one, either.)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (I want to read this, too.)
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (I read it in high school and I did love it. I'm not one of the worshipers, but it did speak to me.)
On the Road (Fuck Jack Kerouac and all of that faux-intense beatnik shit.)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (One of the smartest books I've ever read.)
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down (One of my all time favorites. I've read this several times in my life, the earliest time when I was ten.)
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood
* White Teeth
Treasure Island (Another absolute favorite of mine.)
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers (Another great favorite.)
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Spy Who Memed Me
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1 comments:
Dubliners is a collection of short stories! Hah!
It's pretty good.
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