I saw a woman at Target today in turquoise leather cowboy boots.

[jlh]

These are the 106 most common unread books on LibraryThing’s collective bookshelves. The meme:

Bold the ones you’ve read
Underline the ones you read for classes (at least once)
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish
*star it* if it’s actually on your bookcase and you haven’t read it

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 Miserables
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
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

If it weren't for calloocallay's apartment is book country, I'd have more stars, like for White Teeth anyway, but I get rid of books I don't read. The Corrections is what I told people I was reading when I first came into my first fandom and I was reading piles of H/Hr fanfic—obviously, this was back in the fall of 2001—but when I did start it I hated it.

Also, why are all these Austen novels going unread? It's not like they're difficult.

Comments

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

This may just be my rampant astigmatism, but I can't tell what you've bolded!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I read the post above mine--I couldn't see the bolds either at first!

I did this a while back:

http://sistermagpie.livejournal.com/154494.html

Since I originally did it I had read exactly one more book on the list.:-)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

try either:

http://jlh.livejournal.com/396031.html?style=mine

or

http://jlh.livejournal.com/396031.html?format=light


I think my LJ format, with the white text bold doesn't show up very well!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

which one?

so wait, i saw you make a reference to boiling rock, are you actually all caught up?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Beloved!

I am totally caught up. I have just been pouring out a frightening amount of words on Zuko's addition to the group that I am afraid to post but I might when I am finished. I even saw the clip from "Ember Island Players."

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

Yup, much easier, gracias. I thought you had read Jonathan Strange? Maybe you just know much about it due to Ali. And I think you'd like Don Quixote!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I am very excited for this post!

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

I really really liked Watership Down. Is that wrong?

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

who the hell ASSIGNED you the fountainhead?? please tell me it was a class in, you know, abnormal psych. or a tutorial on the life of alan greenspan. or something.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Don't you remember that scholarship contest where you had to read the Fountainhead and write an essay on it? We all did it the summer before senior year, and it was a national thing, because I've spoken to other people who did it. So I count that as reading it for class.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

No, why would that be wrong?

The only thing I have to say about that is that someone in some dumb debate once said that slash is about gay men like watership down is about rabbits and I remember everyone agreeing and I still didn't understand what they actually meant.

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

Watership Down is a story told with rabbits that is not at all about rabbits in the thematic sense. An allegory for human life, told with rabbits, if you will.

I don't think I agree that most slash is about sweeping cultural themes that have nothing to do with gay men though. That would need to be some masterful Snarry...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Actually Ali said I wouldn't like the ending of Jonathan Strange. I really like what I've heard about Don Quixote and I just mysteriously haven't read it, more than anything.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

no, i never heard of it! hmm, possibly they didn't send it to Catholic high schools?