Another Stolen Meme

[Nymeth]

This time from Lightheaded. Rules:

Strikethrough for books read previously.
Italics for books started but have yet to finish.
And one that I added for extra fun: Bold the ones you don't think you'll ever read.

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 Aeneid
10. The Name of the Rose
11. Don Quixote
12. Moby Dick
13. Ulysses
14. Madame Bovary
15. The Odyssey
16. Pride and Prejudice
17. Jane Eyre
18. The Tale of Two Cities
19. The Brothers Karamazov
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
21. War and Peace
22. Vanity Fair
23. The Time Traveler’s Wife
24. The Iliad
25. Emma
26. The Blind Assassin
27. The Kite Runner
28. Mrs. Dalloway
29. Great Expectations
30. American Gods
31. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
32. Atlas Shrugged
33. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
34. Memoirs of a Geisha
35. Middlesex
36. Quicksilver
37. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
38. The Canterbury Tales
39. The Historian: A Novel
40. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Can you tell what I think of Joyce yet? :P)
41. Love in the Time of Cholera
42. Brave New World
43. The Fountainhead
44. Foucault’s Pendulum
45. Middlemarch
46. Frankenstein
47. The Count of Monte Cristo
48. Dracula
49. A Clockwork Orange
50. Anansi Boys
51. The Once and Future King
52. The Grapes of Wrath
53. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
54. 1984
55. Angels & Demons
56. The Inferno
57. The Satanic Verses
58. Sense and Sensibility
59. The Picture of Dorian Gray
60. Mansfield Park
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
62. To the Lighthouse
63. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
64. Oliver Twist
65. Gulliver’s Travels
66. Les Misérables
67. The Corrections
68. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
69. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
70. Dune
71. The Prince
72. The Sound and the Fury
73. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
74. The God of Small Things
75. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
76. Cryptonomicon
77. Neverwhere
78. A Confederacy of Dunces
79. A Short History of Nearly Everything
80. Dubliners
81. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
82. Beloved
83. Slaughterhouse-five
84. The Scarlet Letter
85. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
86. The Mists of Avalon
87. Oryx and Crake: A Novel
88. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
89. Cloud Atlas
90. The Confusion
91. Lolita
92. Persuasion
93. Northanger Abbey
94. The Catcher in the Rye
95. On the Road
96. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
97. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
98. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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

[Debi]

Isn't that cool how often that kind of thing happens? I really am intrigued by one!

[Nymeth]

I have to confess that I had to google to find out which books were by Jared Diamond. And another confession: the reason why I like these things is exactly because I'm hoping that someone will change my mind about a book I didn't think would interest me at all. I loved the fact that Tricia did that with Freakonomics, and funnily enough, today I was read The Polysyllabic Spree and Nick Hornby mentions it as well.

[Debi]

I'd steal this one from you, but I'd be too embarrassed to admit how few of those I've read. You know, I would have said "no way" to Freakonomics, too, but now Tricia has me really intrigued! Think I'm going to look into that one, too! Those two books by Jared Diamond that you said you'd never read are two of Rich's favorites (of course, I'll never read them either).

[Nymeth]

Thanks for the recommendation, Tricia. Now I really want to look into it!

[Tricia]

It's a quick, easy read. And it's not about "real" economics. It's more about the economics of life, if that makes any sense. I definitely recommend looking into it.

[Nymeth]

Because I had never heard of it before and economy never interested me too much...but now you made me curious!

[Tricia]

I'm interested why not Freakonomics Nymeth? Seriously, I loved that book! You get to learn why gang members live with their moms and why certain baby names come in and out of fashion and why books matter!