Book meme

In case you guys were wondering, this meme comes from the top 106 books that were tagged as owned-but-unread on LibraryThing.

The variation I found elsewhere when tracking down this meme said: bold what you have read, italicize your “did not finish” reads, strikethrough the ones you hated, and put asterisks next to those you read more than once. However, I will put an asterisk by the ones I currently actually own, have owned in the past, or are otherwise floating around the house but haven’t even started.

Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude – This one is particularly shameful because I got all the way to about 30 pages from the end, plus it was an amazing book. I still want to finish it.
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
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 Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad – At least, I think I finished it.
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
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
* Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
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
1984
Angels & Demons – Dan Brown sucks for characters & dialog, so even with the interesting plot, I couldn’t bear it. The aforementioned problems bordered on embarrassing. No, they were actually embarrassing. Note: my opinions are completely subjective, of course, and does not reflect a poor opinion of anyone who did like the book whatsoever.
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park – But I can’t remember what happened.
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
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 – The overwhelming popularity of this book kind of angered me because it appeared to me that just because he made a lot of interesting points/connections and challenged some preexisting notions, the entire work was received as being unimpeachably well-researched. It was, at times, a piece of crap, IMO. Again, no reflection on those who loved it. I’d still recommend it, but with reservations and with a request to challenge the assumptions presented in the book itself, as the author challenges preexisting notions.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers