book meme that's been around

[cimorene]

My reading history of Library Thing's users' 106 books most marked "Unread". So presumably this corresponds roughly to the selection, out of books most often recommended to other people, which least inspire people to want to read them once they have picked them up. It's an odd mixture of like, best sellers from the past ten years, Russian literature, Nobel Prize-winners, Neil Gaiman, and Jane Austen, for serious. Also some non-fiction. I wonder if it's really a good idea to peruse these lists for our friends? Not if you're the kind of person who makes character judgements based on people's unread or unfinished books.

Also, I'm pissed off that Finnegan's Wake wasn't there, because even more than Anna Karenina, that is the piece of literature I've ever encountered that I wish to spread ranting, raving, frothing hate for far and wide. Jesus. At least it's cleverer and more ironic than Anna Karenina, so the fact that it's 10 billion times as pretentions (no mean feat) is sort of ameliorated because it's like, not pretentious so much as ~*Pretentious!!*~LOL.

Anyway, bolded titles are read, italicised titles are unfinished, struck through titles are hated with the heat of a thousand suns. There should be a way to mark them with love too, though. Maybe I'll go through and add hearts! I think I will.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell♥
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22♥
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote♥
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice♥
Jane Eyre♥
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma♥
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods♥
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
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♥
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
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
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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
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
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas
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