Pinched from Muppinstuff and Lazy Cow.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. Here's how I shape up against them.
The books I've read are in bold,
the ones I started but couldn't/didn’t finish are in italics,
what I couldn’t stand has a
those I've read more than once have an asterisk*,
and those underlined are on my To Be Read list.
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
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad* (in three different translations no less)
Emma
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
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*
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*
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
So. I have no idea what that lot says about me, but it was an interesting exercise. There are many in that list I've not heard of.
Anyway this meme was timely as I have a bookish post floating about in my head. I’ve read some rippers lately and want to share. Will do soon.
And big excitement around here – Son #3’s reading has suddenly taken off and he’s just flying. Children in Steiner schools learn formal reading later than those in the mainstream education system, but they do a great deal of preliteracy work. And the beauty of the system is that when it all comes together they are so ready for it that there’s little of that awkward struggling sound-out-each-word-painfully-slowly phase that puts so many children off reading altogether. They just take off! (Well, our children did. YMMV).
I took these photos of my latest knitted
The other children are equally engrossed in books in series at the moment. Son #1 is loving John Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began series and Son #2 is on the second of the Saint of Dragons trilogy. It’s a beautiful thing to get up in the morning and be greeted by the sight of three boys lying silently side by side on the floor in front of the heater, turning pages.
(Please tell me this one actually looks like an acorn, yes?)
21 comments:
this one looks like an acorn : )
I love the colors of your sperm, I mean acorn.
It does look like an acorn, yes, and not like a sperm. :)
I enjoyed Confederacy of Dunces, and perhaps I'll just put my copy of Blind Assassin on the book sharing shelf at the office, and not feel guilty for not being able to even open the cover. The book attention span around here is about a page and a half, and that's only if there are 3 words or less per page! "Mat sat." That is the last page we read, and he was off to other things like building a fort out of his Bob books.
Three boys, turning pages. How idyllic.
A spermy acorn.
Or maybe an acorny sperm.
It's hard to say.
Yes it does and I think it's my favorite so far.
You know what? I really, really loved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It was a LOT of fun!
It looks like an acorn. Not sperm.
I couldn't finish "The Kite Runner" either..which stinks, cause I actually bought it since I heard that it was really good.
I like the acorn bookmark..
yes, a definate acorn that one.
Well done you , on getting all those boys to be loveing reading - sometimes it can be so hard for them at the begiining that they can never develop a love of it - it is a chore forever.
I'm so surprised you didn't enjoy The Blind Assassin, the only book on that list I've read twice.
I hate that schools push reading on kids so early. My theory is to just read, read, read TO them, and eventually they'll pick it up on their own. Which is what my daughter did. It will be interesting if the same thing happens to my son. I do NOT have the patience for baby readers, phonics, etc.
My favorite book on your list is "The Poisonwood Bible." I am going to knit my Hubby an acorn for our upcoming anniversary as we still have the acorns he picked up when we were on the walk where he decided he was ready to "pop the question."
My daughter has also taken off on the reading this fall--her experience sounds the same. It suddenly went from not really reading to reading constantly.
N and I had a moment one evening when it was silent and we noticed that all 4 of us were engrossed in our books. We were very psyched.
I wonder if more Waldorf boys read for pleasure as they aren't pushed at an early age and may be developmentally more ready? Who knows.
Definately an acorn ;)
I've only read that Tashi character once - on a babysitting jaunt last year. Didn't like him and didn't get the appeal.
Apparently he's very popular though.
They all look like acorns, darling, as long as you put your hand on your screen to block out the tails...
(I just tried it, it works).
I'm not so sure about
Look I have to be honest - it looks waaaay more like an acorn but is saved from sperminess by the tassel at the end. Unless sperm have tassels?
I cannot wait until all three of mine are reading.
cannot wait.
Fab acorn!
I love the acorn bookmark. Have to whip one of those up. We've been having a dialogue on my blog about acorn missile attacks. I liked Time Traveller's Wife a lot. It's probably time for me to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles again. You did well with that list. I have not seen on Library Thing.
You have a great blog! Very interesting.
We really enjoy reading your blog, especially as we are away from home at the moment and it reminds us of our home. We enjoy hearing about what you and your family are doing.
Only son wonders if son number 3 is about the same age as him (class 2)?
I see you gave up on Oryx and Crake eventually. I don't think I made it past chapter 2.
Yay for Son #3 and the 3 boys reading in the morning.
Oh, very wise to leave Oryx & Crake...I soldiered on 'till the very end and am still in recovery. (ie: i'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice constantly until I feel better)
...and that is much more like an acorn. Redeemed by a tassel.
I always loved reading as a child, and still do although it is only normally craft books and knitting books nowadays. My son and daugther love to read too, and my son has the first series of the Deltora Quest books, the Harry Potter books, Eragon and Eldest, which he loved. I think he has even read some of them twice.
Ahhhh! Not only have I found someone who has read Mists Of Avalon - but you have re-read it too!! Yea!
I really like the acorn bookmark. You know, it would actually make a cute lariat if you did two acorns!
Diana
Your acorn bookmark would make a very nice pull "chain" for a ceiling fan or lamp.
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