bibliographying

LibraryThing meme

In trolling my beloved and neglected Pajiba and their newish books listings, I discovered a link to a bookblog (and yet another promising review of the illusive sherman alexei book for the annals of YA fiction.)

Anyway, I stumbled upon this meme based the top 106 books tagged as “unread” on LibraryThing. I’ve used her categories to compare my readingness - and added 'unowned and unfinished' - because let's face it, people and libraries can lend us shit sometimes.



UNOWNED AND UNREAD
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Kor'an by Anonymous
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce
Underworld by Don DeLillo
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dubliners by James Joyce
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

a standard list of books one ought to have read i guess. equal parts books I have no interest in and books I've already read something by that author and was not inspired to follow on with their opi any longer. though I still think Cryptonomicon one of the best book titles ever. Oh, and Yann Martel, who I had dinner with once and he was lovely - does that count for anything?



UNOWNED AND UNFINISHED
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Odyssey by Homer
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift



OWNED BUT UNREAD
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

I must confess, some of these are my beautiful Victorian leather bounds which are more for decoration and love of the book as object than any literary merit.



OWNED AND UNFINISHED

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - left at my parents house!
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Iliad by Homer -a terrible translation, I had to give up - a problem I really should rectify



OWNED AND READ
Emma by Jane Austen
Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


my high school nerdism served me well here


READ BUT UNOWNED
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

I still have Sonja's Kavalier and Clay - oops.


In sum: I miss grown up books.