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[nny]

I'm kind of... doing this meme to stave off a panic attack? Ahaha.



Bold the ones you've read
Underline the ones you read for classes
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish
*star it* if it’s actually on your bookcase and you haven’t read it.



Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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
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 <--- this is by Dan Brown, right? Therefore it is not allowed to exist. I had to beat the Da Vinci Code with a slipper.
*The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)*
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 Miserables
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 <--- I didn't finish this only because it got nicked.
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 <--- I hate this book. HATE.
*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 preponderance of books owned but not read/started but not finished is due to the period during which I was working in a bookshop and getting paid in books. Someday I will find the time to read them.

Also, someday I'll probably remember to make a post about how much I dislike Igby Goes Down and The Catcher in the Rye, too.

[mental note: backsliding does not make me a bad person. Not dealing with the backsliding does. Do Work!]

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

You haven't read Watership Down? Did your parents not love you?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

The cartoon scared me SHITLESS.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Me too. But also OMG SEEING THE FILM FIRST. You! OUT OF THE EIGHTIES.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

Not to make a sweeping generalization or anything but. Anyone with a lick of sense dislikes The Catcher in the Rye. Because Holden Caulfield is a dick. If you feel like reading Salinger for the love of God read Franny and Zooey! Or Nine Stories! (Oh, my love of Nine Stories is boundless like a really really huge thing.)Or anything else the man has written, really.

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Angels & Demons <--- this is by Dan Brown, right? Therefore it is not allowed to exist. I had to beat the Da Vinci Code with a slipper.

Ahahaha!! I love you! :D (Even though you have not read Northanger Abbey, which is tragic.)