The 106 book meme

[sawyl]

I guess I ought to do the book meme that's going around:

These are the 106 books most often tagged as unread on LibraryThing; Bold the ones you've read. Add an asterisk to the ones you've read more than once. Italicise the ones you've started but not finished. Strikethrough the ones you hated. Underline the ones on your "to read" list.

OK, here are my answers:

• 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*
• 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
• 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*
• 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 Miserables
• 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
• Treasure Island*
• David Copperfield
• The Three Musketeers

The only book on the list I actively hate is David Copperfield, which I was forced to read at a young age, which, fairly or unfairly, has left me with a comprehensive hatred of all things Dickensian. Whilst not actively hating the two Ayn Rand novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, I did find them to be tediously pretentious and completely unreadable. Similarly, despite repeated attempts to distill it into coherence, I've always found The Silmarillion to be so inscrutable that I'm unable to say whether I hate it or not.