The books-read meme
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javacatBold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones read solely as a curriculum requirement, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.
Final touch: denote the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Tried it three times, can’t get into it.
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion - rushed to buy this when it came out, then read a scathing review, and never even tried to read it. Der.
Life of Pi : a novel - swept me away
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - SWOON
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities – one of my favorite books
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies – repetitive, but worthwhile
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife – impossible on books on tape; one needs to be able to leaf back to check on things. Had to get a hard copy.
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha – I hated this book. I read 2/3 before I gave in to hating it and closed the covers forever, so I count it as read .
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys – one of the best books on CD ever. Excellent reader.
The Once and Future King - swoon
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel – all of her other books are better IMHO
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections – hated this book & its horrible characters. Read enough to count as read, though did not finish it.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – tried it, couldn’t get into it
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon – SWOON, a favorite book
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel – a favorite book.
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas – tried this, too busy/not enough time to get into it. Must try again some day.
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid.
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Final touch: denote the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Tried it three times, can’t get into it.
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion - rushed to buy this when it came out, then read a scathing review, and never even tried to read it. Der.
Life of Pi : a novel - swept me away
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - SWOON
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities – one of my favorite books
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies – repetitive, but worthwhile
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife – impossible on books on tape; one needs to be able to leaf back to check on things. Had to get a hard copy.
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha – I hated this book. I read 2/3 before I gave in to hating it and closed the covers forever, so I count it as read .
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys – one of the best books on CD ever. Excellent reader.
The Once and Future King - swoon
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel – all of her other books are better IMHO
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections – hated this book & its horrible characters. Read enough to count as read, though did not finish it.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – tried it, couldn’t get into it
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon – SWOON, a favorite book
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel – a favorite book.
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas – tried this, too busy/not enough time to get into it. Must try again some day.
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid.
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
More useful to me is this list of books on this list that I haven't read that interest me and I'd like to read someday (28)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Blind Assassin
American Gods
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlesex
Quicksilver
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
Angels & Demons
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
To the Lighthouse
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – tried it, couldn’t get into it
The Prince
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Neverwhere
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas – tried this, too busy to get into it. Must try again some day.
The Confusion
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
White Teeth