Sea of Noise
Fri, 06 Jun 2008
I figured it was time for me to play along with this, since a few do, indeed, show up in the pile of books I own but haven't yet read. (Admittedly, I'm fuzzy on a few of them.) I confess that I would have read more of Jane Austen's books if there weren't so many excellent movies made of them. And the ones I haven't finished will probably get finished someday—I didn't finish Atlas Shrugged the first time, either. I like to read fiction straight through and it's tough for me to get started again when I'm interrupted mid-book.
Below is a list of the top 106 books tagged unread on LibraryThing.
The rules:
bold = what you've read
italics = books you started but couldn't finish
crossed out = books you hated
*= you've read more than once
underline = books you own but haven't read yourself
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- *The Odyssey by Homer
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Iliad by Homer
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- *Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- *Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- *Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- *The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- *Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- *The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- *Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- *The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- *Beowulf by Anonymous
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- *David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazie
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