sorry but could not resist this meme. in order, these are the top 106 books unread. no idea where the list originated! one is supposed to bold books one has read, italicise ones that you've started but cannot finish, and strike through those you couldn't bear. the shortcuts are not working so i shall be putting an asterisk for those i have read, dot dot dotting those i did not finish, and ignoring the unread. go on, have a go! one of the better tools of procrastination i have found in recent weeks :-)
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
**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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
**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
having now done this list, i am a bit embarrassed *blush*. haven't read as many as i thought, and also seem very light on the contemporary books. excellent - the worrying about this is more procrastination. and worrying about appearing pretentious, and worrying about editorialising, and cetera ad nauseam. help, i'm a procrastinator. somebody get me out of here!
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