Friday, May 30, 2008

Tag from Srin: 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 and italicize the ones you have started but didn't finish.

NB: I have marked the books that were part of my Graduation and Post Graduation Courses to show, how 'nobby' my university education is. Except for things like Illiad and Emma, i had read most texts before (like Madame Bovary or One Hundred Years of Solitude). Also, i don't have most of these books. I have marked those i have in RED.

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (text)
6. Wuthering Heights (text)
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: a novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick (an abridged version, yes, and that i've read too, i think)
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary (text)
14. The Odyssey (joint ownership with dibbo, nare?)
15. Pride and Prejudice (3 editions)
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs and Steel
20. War and Peace (except the last 100 pages or so...i was tired of Freemasons and wars)
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad (text)
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assasin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway (text, but enjoyed a lot)
28. Great Expectations (2 editions) (text, ISC)
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 (course text book: the millers tale :)
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 (dibbo's book actually)
45. Frankenstein (text)
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 (text)
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse (am sort of reading it now)
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (text)
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels (text : have read selectively in course of one day before exams, was great fun)
65. Les Miserables (Bille August's movie adaptation is rather niceeee)
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 (huh? why??)
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners (text : i'm not sure whether i've read it entirely or not)
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved (text)
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 (text)
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
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid (course text book : bk 6)
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 (can't remember whether i've read the original book or not...may have...)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Which three editions of Pride and Prejudice?

Madhura said...

norton, aajebaje, pan

Bone said...

haha aajebaaje!!

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