Musings and Maunderings (original) (raw)

Ah! Time to do something that is comparatively useless! The 106 books that people have on their shelves to look smart, but haven't actually read. Italicized if in the house and unread. Bold if read.

Underlined

if it was read for school. If it is both bold and

underlined

I read it again after I read it for school.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell I think this one is Ke's.
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 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
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 Maybe I've read this? can't remember.
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 Book of Merlin is better.

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
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
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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values

The Aeneid
Watership Down

Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth I think Ke brought this one into the house
Treasure Island I may have read this for school
David Copperfield The Three Musketeers