reading

Blogging has been bumped down my priority list by births, homeschooling, picking apples, volunteering for the Obama campaign, sleeping, teaching, cleaning, cooking, running the kids to various events, watching re-runs of The Pretender on Hulu, etc. etc. I've stilll been reading blogs, however, and stumbled on this list over at Chewing the Fat. It's Library Thing's most unread books. I've italicized the ones I've read, bolded the ones I've loved/read over and over, starred the ones I just reserved from the library, question-marked the ones I've never heard of. The rest I've either read excerpts from, or read enough about to know their gist, or think they're not worth my time. But I can be persuaded otherwise. Anyone wanna talk books?

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
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
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers