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via gooneruk:
Have you read those books or are you just trying to appear smart? Below is a list of 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing users. They sit on their shelf, perhaps to make their owner feel smart or well-rounded. The meme comes with these instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. This confirms what I’ve suspected about the books below, so ubiquitous on home shelves. I always silently judge people, thinking, I’ll bet you’ve never read that. Now you can silently judge me! For example, I’ve never read 1984. I know, shocker. noraleah
i don’t have to appear smart, and some of these books are hardly the material i would choose if i wanted to look smarter (there are even some children books in there) but anyway, here goes;
Jonathan Strange & Mr 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 (not sure if this is the one i’m thinking of…)
Don Quixote Moby Dick Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The 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 (once again, if it is the one i’m thinking of) 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 A Clockwork Orange Anansi Boys The Once and Future King The Grapes of Wrath The Poisonwood Bible: a novel 1984 Angels & Demons The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) The Satanic Verses Sense and Sensibility The Picture of Dorian Gray Mansfield Park One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (havn’t even seen the movie) 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: a memoir 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 (but a lot of his other books) 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 (best, book, ever)(not for anybody looking for light reading tho) The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity’s Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield The Three Musketeers
i have no idea which i read in school or for my own pleasure, it was a very faint, close to being none existent, line there between
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