28 May 2008 @ 05:01 pm
Un meme.  
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you read for school, underline the ones you started but didn't finish (or are on the shelf waiting for a free week).


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (RIGHT NEXT TO ME. AUGH.)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion (Bolding this because I have tried to read it about fifteen times, which I think counts.)
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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 (STILL READING IT)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons (UNFORTUNATE, REALLY.)
Inferno (Uh, I'm assuming as in Dante's.)
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 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
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

I find it amusing that there are three Gaiman novels on there, and I've read at least ten percent just through my university. On that note, it is high time I made a list of the books that I own that need reading. Or rereading. >_>; We all know how I am with the Farseer Trilogy.

[EDIT] Official funniest iTunes moment ever:
"It'sa me! Mario~!"
Immediately followed by "Blood Rave" from Blade. Now I can't stop thinking about plumber vampires.

[EDIT] How does~ she know~ that you love her~ (OH, DISNEY, I HAVE MISSED YOU AND YOUR SAPPY SONGS. :'DDDDDDD)
 
 
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kessira[info]kessira on May 28th, 2008 02:30 am (UTC)
I'm going to do this also, cos I am procrastinating. Also I'm going to *asterisk* the ones I intend to read. Cos I can.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (do extracts count?)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (must finish for wonderlands exam)
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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
*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 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
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
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Rave: RAND >> reading[info]cheloya on May 28th, 2008 02:33 am (UTC)
Isn't procrastination wonderful? I probably should have square-bracketed all the Jane Austen titles to indicate that I never wanted to read them, but never mind.
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kessira[info]kessira on May 28th, 2008 02:36 am (UTC)
It is indeed. And now that I have procrastinated, I am going to go eat my homemade pumpkin soup. Isn't it the perfect day for soup?
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Rave: RAND >> ninja skillz[info]cheloya on May 28th, 2008 02:40 am (UTC)
It certainly is. (Ahahahaha, and naturally it's the first day in about a fortnight where we are actually out of soup! XD Atrocious.)
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[info]narnizzle on May 28th, 2008 03:25 am (UTC)
Speaking of books; I am becoming desperate for new reading material. What time are you working this week, BRING BOOKS, BECAUSE I WILL COME DOWN.
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Rave: PHOENIX WRIGHT >> art school[info]cheloya on May 28th, 2008 03:30 am (UTC)
Thursday, 5-10. I'll be on register, but possibly not until after seven. I'll try to remember. XD Just looking at my shelves at the moment... have you read Interview with the Vampire? It's a little puerile these days, but I enjoyed it the first three times, so it can't be all bad. XD

I'll bring you a copy of Good Omens, although this is the last one I can lend out because I only have three and Tegan has my second one. :( You'll be getting the hardcover with the weird formatting, though. I can't let my actual first copy out of the house any more; I am too accustomed to its typoes to want to read another one. XD

I might lend you the first few books in the Nightrunner series, too. They're fun with an added bonus of gay. (Everything I read is fantasy. XD I don't know what to give you!)
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[info]narnizzle on May 28th, 2008 03:33 am (UTC)
I'm fairly certain I tried to read Interview with a Vampire, and didn't like it.
*googles Nightrunner* Sounds okay! And you know I love teh gay.

I don't know! XD What other series do you have, I'll google them quickly XD
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Rave[info]cheloya on May 28th, 2008 03:44 am (UTC)
Well, I'll leave that out, then. I think Louis is sort of a love-him-or-leave-him protagonist, so dislike is understandable.

I'll bring you the first two, then, since I accidentally have two copies of the blasted thing. XD

Google Robin Hobb's "Assassin's Apprentice" as well, on the off chance that I can bear to part with it. (No, really, you may actually have to pry it out of my hands.) Looking at my bookshelves, I honestly can't see much else that you'd be interested in. |D; Least of all anything that I actually have the first book of.
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[info]narnizzle on May 28th, 2008 03:45 am (UTC)
Oh, you know what, just throw anything in the bundle, I'll read anything to keep me occupied. Especially since I'm not working at all now.
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[info]narnizzle on May 28th, 2008 03:47 am (UTC)
And I'll text you tomorrow afternoon so you don't forget to bring them XD
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Rave: FFVII >> your goddamn tea[info]cheloya on May 28th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC)
Oh, bugger off. XD I have a note on my desk and everything.
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[info]squeakelala on May 28th, 2008 06:51 pm (UTC)
Ooh, I wanna do this meme! :D

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (It kinda bored me, as I recall)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (This one was goooood! But dense. And I didn't finish it. >_>)
Catch-22 (OMG OMG OMG READ IT! IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS EVER. EVER. LSKDJLSKDF)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel *___*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (In Spanish, no less. :D)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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 (Too damn depressing to finish.)
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 (MY LOVE FOR IT, LET ME SHOW YOU! <3)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (And I honestly don't remember what it's about. XD;)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Bored me. :/)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange (Perfectly horrorshow! :D Meaning good. <3)
Anansi Boys (I can't find this anywhere, but I want to read it so bad. D:)
The Once and Future King (OH. MY. GOD. RAVEN. WHY HAVE YOU NOT READ THIS? GO READ IT NOW. YOU WILL LOVE IT.)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
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 (Ugh.)
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
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 ( <3 <3 <3 )
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
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 (Another favorite!!!)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield


X3 I love books! And now I absolutely MUST get a copy of The Once and Future King, so I can read it again. God, I miss that book. *___* I think this weekend is bookstore time! So I can get that and these Melusine books. <3
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