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October 16, 2007
meme
I saw this meme over at Strigy's blog.
Basically go to Library Thing, copy the list of the 106 most 'unread' books as of today, highlight the ones you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The number after the title indicates the amount of people who have tagged that book at 'unread'. And NO I've never read 'Sense and Sensibility', so there.
-gg
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West … (65)
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys : a novel (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56)
The inferno (56)
The satanic verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)(I keep meaning to read this one)
Dune (51)
The prince (51)
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50)
A short history of nearly everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved : a novel (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu… (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud atlas : a novel (47)
The confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of… (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into … (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's rainbow (44)
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its … (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The three musketeers (44)
Cold mountain (43)
Robinson Crusoe (43)
Posted by gadgetgirl at October 16, 2007 09:09 PM
Comments
I don't know how to make it bold, so I just deleted the one's I'd not read. A fair showing for someone who stopped reading books without pictures when she had kids.
• Wuthering Heights (110)
• The name of the rose (91)
• Don Quixote (91) In Spanish took a long time. *sighs the bookish loner
• Moby Dick (86)
• Jane Eyre (80)
• A tale of two cities (80)
• Mrs. Dalloway (70)
• Great expectations (70)
• Atlas shrugged (67)
• A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
• Foucault's pendulum (61)
• Frankenstein (59)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
• Dracula (59)
• A clockwork orange (59))
• The grapes of wrath (57)
• 1984 (57)
• The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
• Oliver Twist (54)
• Gulliver's travels (53)
• Les misérables (53)
• Dune (51)
• The prince (51)
• A confederacy of dunces (50)
• Dubliners (50)
• The unbearable lightness of being (49)
• Beloved : a novel (49)
• Slaughterhouse-five (49)
• The scarlet letter (48)
• Lolita (46)
• The catcher in the rye (46)
• On the road (46)
• The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
• The Aeneid (45)
• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its … (44)
• Treasure Island (44)
• David Copperfield (44)
Posted by: eighmie at October 16, 2007 11:59 PM
that IS impressive
Posted by: gadgetgirl at October 17, 2007 06:23 AM
pushes her bookish spectacles up her nose and thinks that I needed to get out more when I was in school.
Posted by: eighmie at October 17, 2007 07:37 AM
Here's my list (asterisks for those I didn't finish):
Crime and punishment
Catch-22*
One hundred years of solitude
Moby Dick
The Odyssey
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Dalloway*
Great expectations
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
The Canterbury tales* (portions for class)
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
1984
The inferno
The picture of Dorian Gray
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (next on my list)
The sound and the fury
The god of small things
A people's history of the United States: 1492-present*
A confederacy of dunces*
A short history of nearly everything
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved : a novel
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The catcher in the rye
White teeth
I actually had to teach Slaughterhouse Five and Cuckoo's Nest to high school kids for my student teaching semester. That was fun.
Posted by: amyc at October 17, 2007 09:54 AM
wow, i am a super nerd.
Posted by: ryan at October 24, 2007 09:00 AM