I'm doing MEMES, for goodness sake. :-/

[dwgm]

From all over my flist, here's the Book Meme...

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 30 September 2007). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment - for a high school class
Catch-22 - loved this one!
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion - straight through once, then skimmed favorite bits repeatedly
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - So much love!
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 - an abridged version, for school
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver - Read about half, and most of the Jack Shaftoe parts
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 - Adored the Arthurian Legends; and Richard Burton in Camelot *G*
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno - my Uncle Fran told me everyone has read The Inferno.
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - Great book!!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist - Read in 9th grade in lieu of dissecting cat in Science class. Still got an 'A'
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 - Great book! The sequels, not so much.
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 - in high school
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 - Great book, read in Jr. High
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* - Tolkien is the BEST
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island - loved it, but it was back in elementary school
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Bastard out of Carolina

Comments

[djarum99.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the meme! I just reread the instructions and realized that this are the top 106 unread books at LibraryThing, which amazes me, at least in some cases. I'll have to check out what people are reading over there :-)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that was weird in some cases myself. I mean, The Hobbit? Who hasn't read that?

[hereswith.livejournal.com]

Dissecting cat?! I'm with djarum99, I was a little surprised that some of these were among the books most often marked as unread.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

They used to dissect cats, by way of an extended anatomy lesson, in 9th grade science. :-P I had my mother write me a note excusing me and got to go to the library and read Oliver Twist for two weeks. *G*

[hereswith.livejournal.com]

*shudders* Good thing you could skip that and read instead!

[compassrose7577.livejournal.com]

I had a mother that took my books away and told me to go outside and play, instead. My unread list is rather staggering, consequently. Later, in college, I was buried up to my ehhhh...parts in the history department.

I was one of those 'read it once and loved it, so I read it again, and again and again and again...'. My summer reading, every summer, from approximately fifth grade on was Gone with the Wind and Hawaii. Maybe, that's why my mother took my books away. Hmmmm......

[mjkt-.livejournal.com]

'A Clockwork Orange', 'Slaughterhouse Five' (Vonnegut = <3) and 'Watership Down' (bunnies!!) on the list of _unread_ books! 8-o

What do people read nowadays -- oh wait, they don't read, they watch the telly.

*cough* not that I'd have much time to read books myself anymore, though...

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

oh wait, they don't read, they watch the telly.

Heh! Not me. I cut out all but the basic channels after my mother passed away two years ago, so there is rarely anything worth watching. I watched a lot of TV as a kid (and still enjoy the old shows, actually), but by the time I was grown up I preferred reading -- and now writing.

[mjkt-.livejournal.com]

I read like crazy when younger too -- unfortunately I have to read and write so much for my work nowadays books pretty much just collect dust on my shelf :p

Thank gods there's fanfic though, otherwise I'd be a total TV junkie, lol...

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

*gapes*
I can believe people have trouble getting through Quicksilver for parts of it seem interminable, but Watership Down? 1984? Am shocked by at least a third of the things on this list.

Did you not like Mists of Avalon?

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Did you not like Mists of Avalon?

It was OK. I should go back and look it over again -- I think I own it! But I was sort of fixated on the T.H. White version of the Arthurian legends, and Mists is quite different in tone, from what I remember.

Good to see you here with us!! :)

[azulada.livejournal.com]

OMG! Someone else that couldn't get through Les Mis! :) I thought I was the only female in the world that didn't just *LURVE* it...::gack::