Book meme

[monkeybard]

Got this from jaunthie. 

"What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. (Question: what the heck is LibraryThing?) 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 Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World*
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye*
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote (I've heard it dramatized for radio.  Loved it!)
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Parts of it, but not all.)
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein*
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath (Ummm…I was supposed to read this for school, but I didn’t.)
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince (I think I was supposed to read this in college or something.  Either I didn’t or I dropped the class.  Who knows?)
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter*
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses (I keep meaning to get me a copy of this and read it.)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values

I'm having a hard time figuring out how this list makes one "look smart or well-rounded".  It certainly makes one look completely random.

Comments

[devinam.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's "The Classics" ? not every classic, but the big ones? I dunno. but i'm intrigued, so i'm going to do it to. ;)

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

So not doing this one cause I think there's maybe one book on the list that I've read...if that. It's to make people like me look like slackers. ;) LOL

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

It's a damned weird list and no mistake. It's supposed to be "classics people haven't actually read but have on their shelves" but honestly I don't believe it. And I am *shocked* that I have apparently read more Joyce than you have. :-p I know you love James Joyce!