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regyt, and others: These are apparently the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. I've bolded the ones I've actually read. Ones I remember totally loving (like "choked up at the fact that I had to put them down" loving) at the time I read them are in purple. What on this list have I missed that you think I should read? I am slowly becoming able to devour books again (this was possibly the most tragic thing I lost upon having N).

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
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: 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
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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dolohov.livejournal.com

I'd be betraying my username if I didn't suggest reading War and Peace ;)

The Brothers Karamazov is an excellent book, as is The Count of Monte Cristo. I was about to suggest Quicksilver, but if you didn't like Cryptonomicon, I'd hesitate.

I'm surprised that Dubliners made the list, but Finnegan's Wake didn't. I don't think anyone who owns a copy of FW has actually read it.

moominmolly.livejournal.com

I liked Cryptonomicon a lot! Ooh, I should reword the post. It's just that I COMPLETELY ADORED the ones in purple, like that "it made me really sad to be done reading them" adored.

Basically, I like a lot of stuff. :)

Edited Date: 2008-04-30 03:01 pm (UTC)

redjo.livejournal.com

I suspect it's because most people think that having a copy of Ulysses on the shelf (read or unread) covers Joyce sufficiently. ;)

I loved Ulysses, but it took studying it in class to finish it. It begs to be discussed with people also struggling with it. It's the very definition of "difficult pleasure" to me.

I really really want to take a Joyce class some time.

If you find one, I would TOTALLY take it with you.

Oh wow! Noted! I will look into it!

regyt.livejournal.com

Oh wow, if I were local, me too! Maybe an online reading group? I've been putting off reading Ulysses for ages!

I can probably find the notes from the Modernism class, in which I studied it ...

dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com

I am allllllmost done listening to Ulysses as an audiobook, and not only is the book fanfuckingtastic, but all those people who told you that hearing it read aloud was better than just reading it yourself were right. Now I want to read it like twenty times. I think I have the annotated version too and would be psyched to read it again with moral support :)

Audiobook! GENIUS.

Oooh! Who was reading it? It totally matters!

I've always thought it earned its nomination as best novel of the 20th century ... but then I'm Irish so I figured I was biased. :)

And someone told me that you don't read Ulysses, you RE-read it, and I've wanted to do so for a while.

Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan. They're both quite good; he obviously has a strong handle on the text.

roozle.livejournal.com

I've started Ulysses several times and not made it through. I'd love to have moral support and a discussion group. Lets do this.

dreda.livejournal.com

If you get the reading group going, let me know and I'll see if I can dig up my Ulysses companion. It made so many things better while I was reading.

rintrahroars.livejournal.com

I think I probably still have my reader's companion. I'll look through it and pass it on if I find it. We read Ulysses in my Joyce class in grad school. Damn hard book to get through, but very worthy of the work, IF you have the time to spend on all the literary/cultural/mythic/linguistic minutiae to get at it.

My philosophy of reading has changed somewhat since those carefree days of yore, when I could spend a half of a semester getting through ONE BOOK. My cynical post-grad-school self has decided that any book that requires a reader's companion is not on my list of must-reads.

dot_fennel

I've read more of FW (80+ pages) than of Ulysses.

The list seems like it has more to do with books assigned for school than anything else.

Wow. I read a chapter of Ulysses every Bloomsday, so I won't be done for another decade, but I got 10 pages into FW and called that a win.

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