10/04/07: Awesome list. I coudn't resist turning it into a poll.

Posted by: Mal_Content


How many have you read? From librarything's website.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)

Anna Karenina (132)

Crime and punishment (121) -

Catch-22 (117)- yes

One hundred years of solitude (115)

Wuthering Heights (110) yes

The Silmarillion (104)

Life of Pi: a novel (94)

The name of the rose (91)

Don Quixote (91) - read it in high school

Moby Dick (86) yes

Ulysses (84)- yes

Madame Bovary (83)

The Odyssey (83) yes

Pride and prejudice (83) yes

Jane Eyre (80) - yes

A tale of two cities (80) - yes

The brothers Karamazov (80)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)- just bought it - will be reading it soon

War and peace (78) yes

Vanity fair (74)

The time traveler's wife (73) 3 times, so far

The Iliad (73) yes

Emma (73)

The Blind Assassin (73)

The kite runner (71) yes

Mrs. Dalloway (70)

Great expectations (70)

American gods (68) yes, great book

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)

Atlas shrugged (67) yes, a couple of times

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)

The Fountainhead (61) yes, a couple of times

Foucault's pendulum (61)

Middlemarch (61)

Frankenstein (59) yes, at least a couple of times

The Count of Monte Cristo (59) yes

Dracula (59) yes, a few times

A clockwork orange (590

Anansi boys (58) Yes, not nearly as good as American Gods

The once and future king (57)

The grapes of wrath (57) yes

The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) yes

1984 (57) of course

Angels & demons (56)

The inferno (56)

The satanic verses (55) a couple of chapters - it bored the hell out of me

Sense and sensibility (55)

The picture of Dorian Gray (55) yes

Mansfield Park (55)

One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54) yes

To the lighthouse (54)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)

Oliver Twist (54) yes

Gulliver's travels (53) yes

Les misérables (53) yes

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) (in English translation)- do you mean The Little Prince? I've practically memorized it

The sound and the fury (51)

Angela's ashes : a memoir (51) yes

The god of small things (51)

A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)-

Cryptonomicon (50)-

Neverwhere (50) yes, a couple of times

A confederacy of dunces (50)

A short history of nearly everything (50)

Dubliners (50)

The unbearable lightness of being (49)

Beloved (49)

Slaughterhouse-five (49)- yes

The scarlet letter (48) yes

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to

Punctuation (48) yes

The mists of Avalon (47) yes, many times

Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)

Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)-

Cloud atlas (47)

The confusion (46)

Lolita (46)-another one of my favorite books.

Persuasion (46)

Northanger abbey (46)

The catcher in the rye (46) yep

On the road (46)

The hunchback of Notre Dame (45) yes

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)

The Aeneid (45)

Watership Down (44) yes

Gravity's rainbow (44)

The Hobbit (44)- yes

In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)

White teeth (44)

Treasure Island (44) yes

David Copperfield (44)

The three musketeers (44)yes

I'm surprised the Lord of the Rings trilogy isn't included.


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