Book meme for dummies

Via cranky and brownamazon, but originally from mariser.

I'm too stoopid to figure out the specified rating system, so I made up my own. I broke it into three lists - never read, read for school, and read on my own. Each list has its own set of marks, which are self-explanatory.

Never read
italic = might read someday

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Anna Karenina

Crime and Punishment

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Life of Pi: a novel

The Name of the Rose

Ulysses

A Tale of Two Cities

The Brothers Karamazov

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies

War and Peace

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Blind Assassin

The Kite Runner

Mrs. Dalloway

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

The Fountainhead

Foucault’s Pendulum

Frankenstein

Dracula

A Clockwork Orange

Anansi Boys

The Poisonwood Bible: a novel

1984

Angels & Demons

The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)

The Satanic Verses

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

To the Lighthouse

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

The Corrections

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Prince

The Sound and the Fury

Angela’s Ashes : a memoir

The Gods Of Small Things

A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present

Cryptonomicon

Neverwhere

A Confederacy of Dunces (I have the audiobook for this but haven't started it yet.)

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Dubliners

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Beloved

Slaughterhouse-five

Oryx and Crake : a novel

Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed

Cloud Atlas

The Confusion

Lolita

The Catcher in the Rye

On the Road

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values

Gravity's Rainbow

In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

White Teeth

Treasure Island

David Copperfield

Read for school
italic = never finished
bold = recommended

Catch-22

Moby Dick

Madame Bovary

The Odyssey (You must read the verse translation, however.)

Vanity Fair

The Iliad (Ditto)

Great Expectations

Brave New World

Middlemarch

The Grapes of Wrath

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mansfield Park

Oliver Twist

Gulliver’s Travels

Les Misérables

The Scarlet Letter

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Aeneid

The Three Musketeers

 
Read on my own
italic = never finished
bold = recommended
strikethrough = hated it

Wuthering Heights

The Silmarillion

Don Quixote

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Emma

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Once and Future King

Sense and Sensibility

Dune

Eats, Shoots & Leaves (The author isn't as funny as she thinks she is, and not all of her advice is correct.)

The Mists of Avalon (I really, really, REALLY hated this one.)

Persuasion

Northanger Abbey

Watership Down

The Hobbit