Reader mem thingy. Interesting to see how many of these I've read twice or more. I go back to the ones I like. I've found I liked most of them....


"What we have here is 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. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place."

The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods*
Anansi Boys*
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir*
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World*
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales*
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22*
A Clockwork Orange*
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion*
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon* (would read again)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield (not sure – we had the entire Dickens hardbound growing up, and I ended up with the collection – I’ve been very slowly working my through it.)
Don Quixote
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything* (would read again and recommend)
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath* (should be mandatory reading fo social workers and politicians)
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations*
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere*
1984*
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey*
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present*
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver*
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books * (would read again)
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five*
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities*
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island*
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West*
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values*