whisper2ascream | Book reading meme

Snagged from amurderofcrows, camwyn and ms_ntropy
The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable.

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (on to read list)
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22 (on to read list)
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose (considered it, we had to watch sections of this for Survey of Western Poli. Theory
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Don Quixote

* Moby Dick
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Ulysses

* Madame Bovary
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The Odyssey

Mythology FTW
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
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A Tale of Two Cities

I just don't care for Dickens' style of writing.
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
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The Time Traveler’s Wife

Started this, but only had it on loan for a few days from the library and ran out of time
* The Iliad
* Emma (also on to read list)
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner (on to read list)
* Mrs. Dalloway
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Great Expectations

High school required reading, see above on opinion of Dickens style.
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American Gods

* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (Iiiii think I bought this but haven't gotten around to read)
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Memoirs of a Geisha

* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
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Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

The Canterbury Tales

Would like to read some of the baudier ones from this. We only got highlights in high school
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
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Brave New World

I have a soft spot for dystopian novels
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein (nope, in fact, one of my English teachers in HS warned us AGAINST reading it, saying how dull it was)
* The Count of Monte Cristo
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Dracula

A Clockwork Orange

Anansi Boys

The Once and Future King

Also soft spot for Arthurian legends
* The Grapes of Wrath assigned reading, but Steinbeck's another writing that leaves me cold
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
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1984

- (I also liked and read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin as well, Cam.)
* Angels & Demons (The infamous Dan Brown, surprised to see this on the list)
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The Inferno AND the rest of the Divvina Commedia

Highlights from HS English again
* The Satanic Verses
* Sense and Sensibility
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

* Mansfield Park
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

In progress, I have this book
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* Oliver Twist
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Gulliver’s Travels

(AND a Modest Proposal for that matter. Adores Swift's satire. Irish authors FTW)
* Les Misérables (I know the story, just haven't gotten around to reading the book. Though I recommend this one cinematic version that updates it to WWII with excellent effect)
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Dune

The Prince

(Highlights from college, want to get the rest of this)
* 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
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Neverwhere

* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
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Slaughterhouse-Five

Also Mother Night, and some of Vonnegut's brilliant short stories, meaning to read more. We lost a great one recently.
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The Scarlet Letter

English class I think?
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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The Mists of Avalon

OK, some of MZB was eh, but this was one of her better ones.
* Oryx and Crake: a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* Lolita
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
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The Catcher in the Rye

* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics (Meaning to read this one, keep seeing it in bookstores)
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
* The Aeneid
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Watership Down

I have this, just a matter of being in the mood to read it.
* Gravity’s Rainbow
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The Hobbit

* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers