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Stolen Book List

I stole this from Professor J's Place who stole it from...well, you can go see for yourself. This has been around a bit. It seems I need to read more.

Copy this list and

• Bold those books you’ve read.
• Italicize books you have started but couldn’t finish.
• Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
• Underline those on your To Be Read list.
• I'll add this one--color the title red if you've seen the movie.
• And this one--color the title green if you've seen the movie more than once.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
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
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
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
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
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
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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Comments

Neponset River Bridge Dig said…
wow that's quite an expansive list there.
10:36 AM
dive said…
Dammit! I'm supposed to be typing up my meeting minutes.
You'll get me into trouble, young lady!
11:19 AM
Mrs. G. said…
That's some list. I have to say that The Brothers Karamazov has been on my must read list for so many years. I think this winter it might be time to crack open the vodka and start reading the Russians.
11:22 AM
Fresh Hell said…
I'm embarrassed by how many books are on my "to read" list and how few are on the "have read" list. I reckon I could compile a list of books that would make me look better read, but I've got sweet-potatos to peel. Such is the holiday season.
11:40 AM
Karen Jensen said…
I love the addition of colors for the movies!
2:54 PM
Maria said…
I thought I was well read......
5:34 PM
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