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Book Meme

I recently came across a book meme on Wulf's blog, and thought it looked interesting enough to try out for myself.

It involves the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. The idea is that you mark in bold what you have read, italicise those you started but couldn't finish, strike-through and asterisk books you have no desire to read, put a question mark in front for books you never heard of and strike through what you couldn't stand, asterisk those you've read more than once and underline those on your to-read list.

Wulf took 3 blog entries to get his list marked up, but at the rate I blog that would probably take me into next year so I decided to do it in one go. Here's my list.

• ?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
• 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 Traveler's Wife
• The Iliad
• Emma
• ?The Blind Assassin
• ?The Kite Runner
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Great Expectations
• American Gods
• ?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
• The Aeneid
• Watership Down
• Gravity's Rainbow
• * The Hobbit
• ?White Teeth
• Treasure Island
• David Copperfield

Like Wulf, I didn't mark any books that I couldn't stand or had no desire to read, although some are fairly unlikely to ever make my reading list. The books I've italicised are ones I've not got round to finishing, but it doesn't necessarily mean I couldn't finish them. I italicised and asterisked the Canterbury Tales because I've read several of them many times but never quite got round to reading the whole lot. The list is probably slightly inaccurate, because there are several books that I can't remember whether I finished them or if I've read them more than once.

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