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Apr. 30th, 2008 10:35 am
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From [livejournal.com profile] 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

Date: 2008-04-30 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regyt.livejournal.com
The Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote is brilliant, even including her translator's introduction. Highly recommended. I also quite enjoyed Kavalier and Clay, and Gravity's Rainbow was also brilliant.

Date: 2008-04-30 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regyt.livejournal.com
Actually, now I have the vague insane urge to read Gravity's Rainbow to LJ a few pages at a time via phone posts for years.

Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall until all the crazy bleeds out.

Date: 2008-04-30 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmolly.livejournal.com
Yes! Do it!

Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall until all the crazy bleeds out.

That works? I'll have to remember.
Edited Date: 2008-04-30 04:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-04-30 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dolohov.livejournal.com
I enjoyed Gravity's Rainbow, but I felt that it kind of disintegrated near the end. Not to the extent of Mason & Dixon, but it soured the read a little for me.

I have not yet picked up Grossman's Don Quixote -- I will have to.

Date: 2008-04-30 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] regyt.livejournal.com
I totally couldn't get through Mason & Dixon.

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