the pretentious books meme
via some Library Thing fan or another:
Below is list of the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by Library Thing users. Their purpose on the shelf is to make you look smart or well-rounded (or they could have been a gift).
to complete the meme,
bold the ones you've read on your own,
underline the ones you had to read for school,
italicize the ones you started but didn't finish,
bold and italicize the ones you hated,
bold and underline those you'd recommend
strike through those you'd like to/plan to read
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
Ulysses
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The 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 (and Purgatory and Paradise)
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
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Comments
yeah I will have to try this one too, but I remember in previous book memes, once you c&p something that has been changed, you can't un bold or un-italicize it. p.i.t.a.
but, I have or have read a lot of these.
I think that is the best and shortest way to answer this or any other book meme.
you are right it is a pain in the neck to c'n'p and try to change. after mucking with it for a while I just copied the list into MSWord, did all the bolding/italicizing/etc. and copied it right back. success!
it is a somewhat odd list. looks like most books are just long. otoh, I never realized until now how "meh" I feel towards Jane Austen.
Never read any Austen. I have very strong feelings of dislike towards Dickens. Actually, most books written prior to 1900 irk me. Oscar Wilde is just about the only exception. Dracula and Frankenstein are okay too.
weird.
Dickens is so-so. I have liked the funnier, lighter stuff, i.e. The Pickwick Papers, but not so much the sob stuff. OW transcends time and space.
this list is hitting a nerve with me; if you'd ask me I'd say I rarely/never leave a book unfinished, but there are fifteen of them here.