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[apocalypsos]

"These are 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, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (I have the hardcover and the paperback both, but I just never finish. I really should make a point of doing that next year.)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
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
War and Peace (Bored the pants off me, didn't make it far at all.)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife (Loved it, but it depressed the hell out of me so I doubt I'll ever read it again.)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (Have it, made it about halfway through, just have to pick it back up again and finish.)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Bought it right after it came out, only made it so far. I think the voice was bugging me, IIRC.)
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales (We didn't read the whole thing, but we did read a good chunk of it in class.)
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 (I vaguely remember reading it after I first saw the movie.)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
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 (Again, read it after I saw the movie.)
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 (Read it for myself right after it came out.)
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved (Liked it better than the movie, that's for damn sure.)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood (I think I probably read it for school, too, but I specifically remember reading it for myself more than a few times. I really liked it. Aaaand now I want to read it again.)
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Oh, man, that makes it look like I read nothing. *pouts*

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And for added fun, the shows I'm currently watching:

1. Merlin (First series almost over)
2. Never Mind The Buzzcocks (Series over, unless they decide to whip the Russell Brand episode out)
3. Pushing Daisies (Cancelled, because ABC sucks)
4. Supernatural
5. Gossip Girl
6. Top Chef (which only lasts until March, I think)

So, barring an actors' strike, I'll only be watching two shows by the end of the current season. Faaaaabulous. (I should say that I'm not currently counting Verbotene Liebe, if only because it's not like I'm watching the whole show, just one storyline. And they're not even showing that storyline right now, SO.)

Comments

[florahart]

...I obviously have a lit degree.

Heh.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of shocked you didn't have to read more of these for school! And you know, if you just start reading Austen, that's like half the list.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I expected to have read more of them for school, considering. I used to be that annoying kid who, when handed the reading list for the year, read them all starting with the thickest ones and had them done by October.

I really do have to sit down with the Jane Austen ones, though. God knows I can't get enough of the stories.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Start with Emma. Because then you can watch Clueless and finally understand its true brilliance. Ha. I've read P&P probably about 5 times... and my copy has this cheesy cover that looks like a bad romance novel, which I think is great.

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

I've read twelve of these from cover to cover. But I've read PARTS of other books, or have a vague understanding of the plot. And sometimes, if I know the basic plot before I even open it, I don't want to read it because dammit, where's the surprise?

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Was there a Russell Brand episode that they didn't air because of the BBC's tightass fight with him????? OH MY GOD. I will storm over to the BBC and yank that episode out of their collective ass, because I would bet anything that it is GOLD. GOLD OKAY.

*grrrrs*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, he was the guest team captain. I believe it was supposed to air that week the shit hit the fan and they pulled it.