Tuesday, May 27, 2008

All about books

This is my first tag, and I have been tagged here by Unmana. The following is apparently a list of books, "most of them sitting unread in people's bookshelves to make them look smarter". The rules are: bold the ones that you have read, underline the ones you have read in school, italicise the ones you have started but didn't finish. Not sure what should I do with those I read at the University (not necessarily as a child but as a student of literature). I am gonna make them bold and underlined. Also, what about those that I read multiple times? Doesn't that count? :). Or those that I read in school as well as after I grew up?
Anyways, here I go:
  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  2. Anna Karenina
  3. Crime and Punishment
  4. Catch-22
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  6. Wuthering Heights
  7. The Silmarillion
  8. Life of Pi: a novel
  9. The Name of the Rose
  10. Don Quixote
  11. Moby Dick
  12. Ulysses - I started this multiple times but never finished it
  13. Madame Bovary
  14. The Odyssey
  15. Pride and Prejudice
  16. Jane Eyre
  17. The Tale of Two Cities
  18. The Brothers Karamazov
  19. Guns, Germs and Steel - I am reading this now so I guess this could be bold.
  20. War and Peace
  21. Vanity Fair
  22. The Time Traveler's Wife
  23. The Iliad
  24. Emma
  25. The Blind Assasin
  26. The Kite Runner
  27. Mrs. Dalloway
  28. Great Expectations
  29. American Gods
  30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  31. Atlas Shrugged
  32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
  33. Memoirs of a Geisha
  34. Middlesex
  35. Quicksilver
  36. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
  37. The Canterbury Tales
  38. The Historian: A Novel
  39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  40. Love in the Time of Cholera
  41. Brave New World
  42. The Fountainhead
  43. Foucault's Pendulum
  44. Middlemarch
  45. Frankenstein
  46. The Count of Monte Cristo
  47. Dracula
  48. A Clockwork Orange
  49. Anansi Boys
  50. The Once and Future King
  51. The Grapes of Wrath
  52. The Poisonwood Bible
  53. 1984
  54. Angels and Demons
  55. Inferno
  56. The Satanic Verses
  57. Sense and Sensibility
  58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  59. Mansfield Park
  60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  61. To the Lighthouse
  62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  63. Oliver Twist
  64. Gulliver's Travels
  65. Les Miserables
  66. The Correction
  67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  69. Dune
  70. The Prince
  71. The Sound and the Fury
  72. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
  73. The God of Small Things
  74. A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
  75. Cryptonomicon
  76. Neverwhere
  77. A Confederacy of Dunces
  78. A Short History of Nearly Everything - I revisit this again and again, without finishing it
  79. Dubliners
  80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - One of my favourites
  81. Beloved
  82. Slaughter House- five
  83. The Scarlett Letter
  84. Eats, Shoots and Leaves
  85. The Mists of Avalon
  86. Oryx and Crake
  87. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  88. Cloud Atlas
  89. The Confusion
  90. Lolita
  91. Persuasion
  92. Northanger Abbey
  93. The Catcher in the Rye
  94. On the Road
  95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  96. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - I am not sure why, I started this book multiple times but could not finish it.
  97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values
  98. The Aeneid
  99. Watership Down
  100. Gravity's Rainbow
  101. The Hobbit
  102. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
  103. White Teeth
  104. Treasure Island
  105. David Copperfield
  106. The Three Musketeers
I am not sure how this list truly qualifies as the one intended to make you look smart, but I didn't do too bad, eh? One thing I am glad about though is that from the list I can see that I do finish most of the books I start.

Am I supposed to tag someone? I am not sure. I don't have a whole lot of friends on blogosphere or regular readers. Unmana is already done it. I sure would like to know what Ludwig's list looks like though. So, if you do come here and see this, consider yourself tagged.

Update: I also want to know what Mridula and Truman's list looks like. So, please, if you do come here - consider yourself tagged.

5 comments:

Unmana said...

Thanks. I notice we seem to have read many of the same ones!

Emma said...

[unmana] That stuck me too. Thanks to you, I enjoyed doing this. It made me reflect on books I have read over the years.

Anonymous said...

Emma, if you can pick up The Hobit, it is a delightful tale. I have read many of the same as you. By the way, 'The Lord of the Rings' is missing from the list or did I skip it? I read it 1.5 times!

Emma said...

[mridula] No, I haven't read The Hobbit. I really should.
No, you haven't missed it; "Lord of the Rings" doesn't figure in the list - not sure why. But then, I don't totally agree with whats in the list either.

I sure would like to know what your list looks like.

Unknown said...

thats a nice list emma.
try reading 'the kite runner' - i think u would like it.