Strike-through books you’ve read before.
Italicize books you’ve read before but haven’t finished.
Copy and paste on your blog to see how “pretentious” you are.
(Stolen from The Ax for the Frozen Sea)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Silmarillion
The Aeneid
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlesex
Quicksilver
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
To the Lighthouse
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
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
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
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
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Total: 31% Pretentious, but looking at the number of italicised books I'd say I'd like to be more pretentious than I am!
yikes... that's quite a book list. There are several I've read, but I can't say that the majority of them have been my favorites!
ReplyDeletehey dumb question for you -- how do you strikethrough? am i retarded? i can't figure this out! i can't believe i am admitting this!
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