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[sjester]

You know the rules: As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand and underline those you have no intention of reading.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110) (...I can't believe I read the whole thing.)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83) (Just assume that anything by Jane Austen is on my "Not reading, ever" list.)
Jane Eyre (80) (Same goes for anything by any of the Brontes, with the exception of Wuthering Heights, which, as you can see, is stricken through.)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67) (I do want to read this at some point, though.)
Atlas Shrugged (67) (So over Ayn Rand.)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian: a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61) (I've actually read this more than once.)
The Fountainhead (61) (I was young and stupid. Forgive me.)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59) (Haven't read it, but saw the movie.)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57) (Was supposed to read it for class, ended up with not enough time, still intend to actually read it.)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56) (Yes, I've determined I can't stand it without reading and put it on my "Not reading, ever" list. The Da Vinci Code was bad enough. And it hurts me that there's a third coming out. Damn you Geeks Who Drink for making me know that!)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) (Not only have I not read it, I also have been misreading the title until today.)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes: a Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (51) (I probably shouldn't even be italicizing this one, because I read something like five pages of it.)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) (Haven't read this one, but have read The Book of Laugher and Forgetting. Want to read this one too.)
Beloved (49) (Don't remember a damn thing about it, though.)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48) (It's on my Powell's wish list...)
The Mists of Avalon (47) (Read the prequel too.)
Oryx and Crake: a Novel (47)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values (45) (Meh.)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44) (Intend to read it sometime, sort of.)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44) (Uh, saw the movie about the writing of it...)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)