some books

I was snooping around Liz's blog and came across a website she recommended, a friend's blog. I don't know this friend, but the girl's most recent posting (one she claims to have taken from another girl's site) piqued my interest. So I, in turn, am taking it upon myself to steal it again!

What you do is take the following list of books (the top 106 marked most often as 'unread' by LibraryThing’s users) bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you started but couldn’t finish, strike through the ones you really sort of hated, put an asterisk next to the ones you’ve read more than once, and mark in green the ones on your own personal To Be Read list.

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
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
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius* (didn't like it as much the second time around)
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (I read the first little bit while staying with someone, as I always need to read before bed and hadn't brought a book. I really liked it and wanted to hold onto it. This reminds me that I must start it again!)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex*
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (We just read excerpts in high school and in my English lit classes in college)
The Historian : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
Love In the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead (I started this 2-3 times when I was in high school and college. It never stuck.)
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
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 (I tried to read this in French. Noble goal and all, but it took longer than I thought to get through a few pages. I gave up.)
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
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 (I can't remember if I read this or not! I think not.)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road (to Jim's dismay, I recently reported to him that I did not like this book when I attempted it several years back. Maybe I'd like it more now? I'm thinking not.)
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
In Cold Blood : A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequence
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers