Monday, May 05, 2008

LibraryThing meme

I just found this meme on Ticket to Anywhere, a bookblog I recently discovered. She found this meme on LibraryThing's blog.

The following is a list of the top 106 books tagged as “unread” on LibraryThing. I’ve divided them up into categories.

Let’s see how I do.

UNOWNED AND UNREAD
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Emma by Jane Austen
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Middlemarch by George Eliot
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Kor'an by Anonymous
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce
Underworld by Don DeLillo


OWNED BUT UNREAD
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


OWNED AND UNFINISHED
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Well...Anna Karenina will be finished soon, but Infinite Jest?!? I wonder if I'll ever finish that one. Sigh.


OWNED AND READ
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dracula by Bram Stoker>
Dubliners by James Joyce
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad by Homer
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Odyssey by Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


READ BUT UNOWNED
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3 comments:

JRH456 said...

You need to read The Book Thief, I finished last week and it is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. Its up there with Shadow of the Wind and Blood Meridian. Different, but still amazing!

Heather J. @ TLC Book Tours said...

I just posted a similar list on my site. I love comparing lists!

Edwin Hesselthwite said...

Ok, So I've been hacking my way through the works of Michael Chabon recently, and the thought came to me "Has Jen read these? I really want to know"

All I found was this one mention on your blog... Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union are both outstanding.

Go read.

(Here is Chabon discussing The Road)