Like many other dedicated LibraryThingers, I've decided to succumb to the LT Top 106 Unread Books meme. WTF? Here's the explanation:
This meme has been going around for a while now: Top 106 unread books on LibraryThing. People are going through the top 106 books tagged "unread" on LT, and then marking which ones they've read, which they read for school, which they started but didn't finish, which are on their to read list, which they loathed, which they read more than once...
Here are the rules:
- books you've read go in bold,
- books started but not finished are in italics,
- strikethrough for books you've read and hated,
- an *asterisk for books read multiple times,
- and underline is for books that are on your "yet to read" list.
So, from the most recent list that I have:
- *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Life of Pi : a novel – Yann Martel
- Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- *Catch-22: a novel – Joseph Heller
- *Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) – Neal Stephenson
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books – Azar Nafisi
- *The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
- The Kor'an – Anonymous
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- The Odyssey – Homer
- *The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- The Historian : a novel – Elizabeth Kostova
- Foucault's Pendulum – Umberto Eco
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – Henry Fielding
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- The Iliad – Homer
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- *Emma _ Jane Austen
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
- Gulliver's Travels _ Jonathan Swift
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies – Jared Diamond
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- Lady Chatterley's Lover – D.H. Lawrence
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- The Once and Future King – T. H. White
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Oryx and Crake : a novel – Margaret Atwood
- *Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Labyrinth – Kate Mosse
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed – Jared Diamond
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
- Underworld – Don DeLillo
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- *Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- *The Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake
- The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
- Gravity's Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- Swann's Way – Marcel Proust
- The Poisonwood Bible : a novel – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel – Michael Chabon
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
- *The Portrait of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- The Confusion – Neal Stephenson
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey
- *Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- The System of the World – Neal Stephenson
- The Elegant Universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… – Brian Greene
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- The Known World – Edward P. Jones
- The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
- The Bonesetter's Daughter – Amy Tan
- Infinite Jest : a novel – David Foster Wallace
- Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
- Beloved : a novel – Toni Morrison
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- The Personal History of David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Hmm, this could be embarrassing ... I need an extra category – "um, I thin I have, but I can't remember for sure, it was a long time ago". Oh, and "Never heard of it. Is it any good?"
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