[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] It's Meme Time...

Yes. I nicked this book meme from Paul (who got it from Dawn), and I figured I'd give it a whirl and keep the dream alive. And, to make things easier, I'm also going to follow Paul's instructions.

The common form of these lists seems to be italicise those that X, bold those that Y, and strike through those that Z. Dawn changed that for an italicised comment after each title, and I will follow that format because...well, no reason.

The books listed below are the top 105 books most often tagged as being unread by LibraryThing users (as of October 3rd). I have no idea what LibraryThing is. "Yes," means I've read it. "No," means I have not. Any other comments will, I hope, be self explanatory.

• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell (No)
• Anna Karenina (Yes)
• Crime and Punishment (Yes)
• Catch-22 (Yes)
• One hundred years of solitude (Yes)
• Wuthering Heights (Yes)
• The Silmarillion (I've read parts of it)
• Life of Pi (No)
• The Name of the Rose (Yes)
• Don Quixote (Yes)
  
• Moby Dick (Yes)
• Ulysses (Yes)
• Madame Bovary (Yes)
• The Odyssey (Yes)
• Pride and Prejudice (Yes)
• Jane Eyre (Yes)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Yes)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Yes)
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (No)
• War and Peace (Yes)
• Vanity Fair (No)
• The Time Traveller’s Wife (No)
• The Iliad (Yes)
• The Blind Assassin (No)
• The Kite Runner (No)
• Mrs. Dalloway (No)
• Great Expectations (Yes)
• American Gods (No)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (No)
• Atlas Shrugged (Yes)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran (No)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Yes)
• Middlesex (No)
• Quicksilver (Yes)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (No)
• The Canterbury Tales (Yes)
• The Historian (No)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Yes)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Yes)
• Brave New World (Yes)
• The Fountainhead (Yes)
• Foucault’s Pendulum (Yes)
• Middlemarch (No)
• Frankenstein (Yes)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Yes)
• Dracula (Yes)
• A Clockwork Orange (Yes)
• Anansi Boys (No)
• The Once and Future King (No)
• The Grapes of Wrath (No)
• The Poisonwood Bible (No)
• 1984 (Yes)
• Angels & Demons (Yes)
• The Inferno (Yes)
• The Satanic Verses (Yes)
• Sense and Sensibility (Yes)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Yes)
• Mansfield Park (No)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Yes)
• To the Lighthouse (Read some of it)
• Tess of the Ubervilles (Yes)
• Oliver Twist (Yess'r)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Yes)
• Les Miserables (No)
• The Corrections (Yes)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (No)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (No)
• Dune (Yes)
• The Prince (Yes)
• The Sound and the Fury (Yes)
• Angela’s Ashes (Yes)
• The God of Small Things (No)
• Cryptonomicon (No)
• Neverwhere (No)
• A Confederacy of Dunces (Yes)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (No)
• Dubliners (Yes)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Yes)
• Beloved (No)
• Slaughterhouse-five (Yes)
• The Scarlet Letter (Yes)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Not yet. But, I do own it and plan to read it soon)
• The Mists of Avalon (Yes)
• Oryx and Crake:a novel (No)
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (No)
• Cloud Atlas (No)
• The Confusion (No)
• Lolita (Yes)
• Persuasion (No)
• Northanger Abbey (No)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Yes)
• On the Road (Yes)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Yes)
• Freakonomics (No)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (No)
• The Aeneid (Yes)
• Watership Down (Yes)
• Gravity’s Rainbow (To quote Paul: "why does this sound so familiar? Google, google, google...ah, Pynchon - nope, not even remotely interested)
• The Hobbit (Yes)
• In Cold Blood (Yes)
• White Teeth (No)
• Treasure Island (Yes)
• David Copperfield (Yes)
• The Three Musketeers (Yes)
  

That was fun.

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 10/17/2007 10:29:00 AM