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bookish meme

Something from Jenn:

The rules: Bold is for books you’ve read (ed: I’ve put ’em in CAPS, too, because bold just… isn’t with this new theme). Italics for books you’ve started but haven’t finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable. Leave the ones you haven’t read as they are. Place an asterisk next to those you want to read.

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 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
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
THE CANTERBURY TALES
The Historian
*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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
THE MISTS OF AVALON
Oryx and Crake
*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
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
The Aeneid
WATERSHIP DOWN
Gravity’s Rainbow
THE HOBBIT
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
TREASURE ISLAND
DAVID COPPERFIELD
THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Notes: I’ve seen the movies of some of these works of literature but haven’t read the books. And there are some where I’ve read the book but have yet to view a filmed interpretation of the story.

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