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UNREAD BOOKS--An Embarrassing meme
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[info]patrickmurfin
 In need of a humbling experience?  Try this meme which has been making the rounds.  When you are done, see it you feel as unwashed and unread is I do.

Below are the top 106 books tagged “unread” on the web site Librarything.

The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once.

Here’s my list, pathetic though it may be

Jonathan Strange & M. 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                                                                                                                                         

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
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway                                                                                                                              

Great Expectationa
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex

Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
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 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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid

Watership Down

Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit

In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island                                                                                                                        

 David Copperfeild
 The Three Musketeers


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I refuse to think about what it means that I have only read 47 of the 106, Patrick. I did check to see how many others in the US have my name and I discovered that NONE do. Not even me, apparently. Of course, Kit is a nickname and I do know that there is another Kit Ketchum (spelled slightly differently) in the UUA, because we are very distantly related.

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