Book meme

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Let's see how well-read I am. Snagged from slaymesoftly.

The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. 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.

1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Anna Karenina
Beloved
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood
Jane Eyre
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible
The Prince
The Silmarillion
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Life of Pi
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons
Atlas Shrugged
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Les Misérables - in English for fun, then in French in college
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Slaughterhouse-five
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Fountainhead
The Grapes of Wrath
The Historian
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
The Sound and the Fury
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Wicked

Comments

[ldyavalon.livejournal.com]

These are the "unread"??? Huh??? I've read some on that list, and I mostly read for fun...

I think I've read about five of the ones you have ;)

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Yeah, these are apparently the books no one wants to read, but that they want other people to think they've read, lol.

[goodbyebird]

heh I've actually read some of these. Go me.

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I thought I would've read a lot more, but most of the books I read for school aren't on here. I guess those are the ones people actually read instead of the ones they like to pretend they've read...

[goodbyebird]

I guess those are the ones people actually read instead of the ones they like to pretend they've read...
Yep, that's the point of the list, me thinks. I did expect LoTR to be on there, but I guess Silmarillon covers it. heh.

Some really weird books on the list though, like 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. Not exactly a well-known or pompous book, so curious why people would want others to think they've read it.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

It was very well-reviewed, and I think it is considered to be a "literary" book. (ICIotDitNT) That's all I can figure out. So, I guess, if you want to be "hip" with the literary set, you have to say you've read it. :)

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For the record, "TCIotDitNT" is the most ridiculous abbreviation ever. :)

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

ROFL - hey! I'm lazy. No way am I writing out that whole thing!

[goodbyebird]

Just had to check to see I wasn't mistaken about the book, but nope, I've read it and still don't get why people would want others to believe they've read it. First off it's pretty skinny, so people should leaf through it easily enough. hehe. It's a good book, I'll agree there :) Just not one of those thick, "look how smart and cultured I am" type of books *shrug*

Whole bunch of books on this list I'm planing to read, but the way fanfic has gotten its claws in me recently, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the discovery of fanfic pretty much put a halt to my ability to keep up with real world books. LOL I went from reading a book or two a week, to a book or two a year. LOL