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Tue Oct 16, 10:04 PM

Stolen from a blog I can't remember, this is apparently a Librarything list of the most common unread books. Bold the ones you have read, italic the ones you have started but not finished.

# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - ugh this one took forever to finish
# Anna Karenina
# Crime and punishment
# Catch-22
# One hundred years of solitude
# Wuthering Heights
# Life of Pi : a novel
# The name of the rose
# Don Quixote
# Moby Dick
# Ulysses
# Madame Bovary
# The Odyssey - english class
# 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 - loved this one too!
# The Iliad - again in English class
# Emma
# The Blind Assassin
# The kite runner
# Mrs. Dalloway
# Great expectations
# American gods : a novel
# A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
# Atlas shrugged - I don't get Ayn Rand.
# 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 - again I read her but don't get her.
# Foucault’s pendulum
# Middlemarch
# Frankenstein
# The Count of Monte Cristo
# Dracula
# A clockwork orange
# Anansi boys : a novel
# 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 : a novel
# The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - ech didn't like this one.
# 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 - this one was interesting. I haven't thought of Blackfriars the same since
# A confederacy of dunces
# A short history of nearly everything
# Dubliners
# The unbearable lightness of being
# Beloved : a novel
# Slaughterhouse-five
# The scarlet letter
# Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
# The mists of Avalon
# Oryx and Crake : a novel
# Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
# Cloud atlas : a novel
# The confusion
# Lolita
# Persuasion - this was the one Austen novel I tried to read, but never finished
# Northanger abbey
# The catcher in the rye - surprisingly this wasn't an English class novel
# On the road
# The hunchback of Notre Dame
# Freakonomics
# Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
# The Aeneid
# Watership Down
# Gravity’s rainbow
# In cold blood
# White teeth
# Treasure Island
# David Copperfield
# The three musketeers
# Cold mountain
# Robinson Crusoe
# The bell jar
# The secret life of bees
# Beowulf : a new verse translation
# The plague
# The Master and Margarita
# Atonement
# The handmaid’s tale - My favorite dystopian novel
# Lady Chatterley’s lover
# Underworld
# Little Women
# A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
# Stardust
# Jude the obscure
# The chronicles of Narnia - ugh I could just not finish this one at all!
# Possession : a romance
# Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
# Never let me go - this one was interesting as well
# The trial
# Kafka on the shore
# Bleak House
# Sons and lovers
# Alias Grace - what's with all the Atwood?
# The Arabian nights
# Baudolino
# Confessions
># The great Gatsby - english class, this one made my brain bleed.
# To kill a mockingbird - English class
# Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
# The alchemist
# Candide, or, Optimism
# Snow falling on cedars
# Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story
# Midnight’s children
# White Oleander
# A passage to India
# The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and …
# The house of the seven gables
# The lovely bones : a novel
# Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
# The Amber Spyglass - much better IMHO than Harry Potter books
# The histories
# Swann’s way
# The shadow of the wind
# Fahrenheit 451
# Good omens - loved this book!
# Running with scissors : a memoir
# Everything is illuminated : a novel
# The divine comedy
# Paradise lost
# The English patient - the book was much better than the movie, as was the "prequel" In The Skin Of A Lion
# Uncle Tom’s cabin
# The Origin of Species

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