{"id":2538,"date":"2007-10-04T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/10\/04\/books-meme\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T20:19:02","slug":"books-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/10\/04\/books-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing<\/a>‘s users (as of some point). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
\nAnna Karenina
\nCrime and Punishment
\n<\/span>Catch-22<\/span>
\n<\/em>One Hundred Years of Solitude
\nWuthering Heights
\n<\/em><\/span>The Silmarillion<\/span>
\nLife of Pi : a novel
\nThe Name of the Rose
\nDon Quixote
\nMoby Dick
\n<\/span><\/em>Ulysses
\nThe Odyssey*****
\n<\/span><\/strong>Pride and Prejudice
\n<\/span>Jane Eyre
\nA Tale of Two Cities
\n<\/span><\/em>The Brothers Karamazov
\nGuns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
\nWar and Peace
\n<\/em><\/span>Vanity Fair
\nThe Time Traveler’s Wife
\nThe Iliad***
\n<\/strong><\/span>Emma
\nThe Blind Assassin
\nThe Kite Runner
\n<\/span>Mrs. Dalloway
\nGreat Expectations
\n<\/em><\/span>American Gods
\nAtlas Shrugged
\n<\/span>Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
\nMemoirs of a Geisha
\nMiddlesex
\nQuicksilver
\nWicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
\nThe Canterbury Tales
\n<\/em><\/span><\/span>The Historian : a novel
\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
\nLove in the Time of Cholera
\nBrave New World
\n<\/span>The Fountainhead
\nFoucault’s Pendulum
\nMiddlemarch
\nFrankenstein
\nThe Count of Monte Cristo
\nDracula
\n<\/em>A Clockwork Orange
\nAnansi Boys
\nThe Once and Future King
\n<\/span><\/em>The Grapes of Wrath
\nThe Poisonwood Bible : a novel
\n1984
\n<\/strong>Angels & Demons
\nThe Inferno
\nThe Satanic Verses
\nSense and Sensibility
\n<\/em>The Picture of Dorian Gray
\nMansfield Park
\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
\nTo the Lighthouse
\nTess of the D’Urbervilles
\nOliver Twist
\n<\/em>Gulliver’s Travels
\n<\/strong>Les Mis\u00c3\u00a9rables
\n<\/em><\/span>The Corrections
\nThe Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
\nDune
\nThe Prince
\n<\/strong>The Sound and the Fury
\nAngela’s Ashes : A Memoir
\nThe God of Small Things
\nA People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
\n<\/em><\/span>Cryptonomicon
\nNeverwhere
\nA Confederacy of Dunces
\nA Short History of Nearly Everything
\nDubliners
\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
\nBeloved
\nSlaughterhouse-Five
\n<\/span>The Scarlet Letter
\n<\/strong>Eats, Shoots & Leaves
\nThe Mists of Avalon
\n<\/strong>Oryx and Crake : a novel
\nCollapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
\n<\/strong>Cloud Atlas
\nThe Confusion
\nLolita
\nPersuasion
\nNorthanger Abbey
\nThe Catcher in the Rye<\/span>
\nOn the Road
\nThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
\n<\/span>Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
\n<\/strong>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
\nThe Aeneid
\nWatership Down
\n<\/span>Gravity’s Rainbow
\nThe Hobbit
\n<\/strong>White Teeth
\nTreasure Island
\n<\/strong>David Copperfield
\nThe Three Musketeers<\/span><\/div>\n

Its funny, because I bought The Aeneid<\/em> on Saturday and started reading it while waiting for the lenses in my glasses to get completed and through lunch. I need to come to a conclusion with The Great Horn, Six Not So Easy Pieces, What to Eat, The Martian Chronicles<\/em>, and Killing Monsters<\/em> before starting something new.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks<\/p>\n

\"[info]\"<\/a>megstravaganza<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

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