Because I'm in a meeting. On a conference call. AND being put on hold.

[bzarcher]

LibraryThing list of books most frequently listed but marked unread.

These are my results. Bold title I've read, * titles I own but have not read, Italicized title I've begun but not finished.

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
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 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 : 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 (No good explanation - my dad got it for me as a kid, I started it, I never felt like finishing it. It's not even that long...it just didn't hold any interest.)
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers


And now the call's off hold. That's good timing.

Comments

[jennekirby.livejournal.com]

Damned Wuthering Heights. Don't finish it. (I had to read it three times for school. The only thing worse than reading Wuthering Heights is being eleven while doing it.)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

That's actually why I (tried) to start it. It was on the reading list for...8th grade English? Yeah, 8th.

My mom is a huge Bronte nut. I'm personally a bit meh about the entire family, but I got a lot of them stuffed in my hands and onto my bookshelves as a kid, was later forced to do more in First Year Seminar at Wooster, and sort of slogged my way through the general body of their work -except- for Wuthering Heights. *shrug*

The copy of Jane Eyre was a gift from my mom, in fact, that has traveled with my various bookshelf iterations since I left for Wooster.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Did you make it halfway? Then you've read it. Second verse, same as the first.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Which, really, is kind of horrible. You'd think all these charming, smart, and self possessed characters would have better things to do.