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        <p>This one comes from <a href="http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/04/librarything-love-and-unread-books-meme.php">LibraryThing</a>. Members are taking the current top 106 <a href="http://www.librarything.com/tag/unread">unread books</a> and marking it up according to their own reading. Here&#39;s mine:</p><blockquote><p>* = I own the book<br /><strong>Bold</strong> = I’ve read the book<br /># = I read the book for high school or university<br />Italics = I’ve started the book<br /><del>Stricken</del> = I hated the book<br /><u>Underline</u> = on my current to-read list<br /></p></blockquote><p><strong>1. &#160; &#160; The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide by Douglas Adams</strong><br />2.&#160;&#160; &#160; Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke<br />3. &#160; &#160; The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini<br /><strong>4. &#160; &#160; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*</strong><br />5. &#160; &#160; The illearth war by Stephen R. Donaldson<br />6. &#160; &#160; Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel<br />7. &#160; &#160; <u><em>Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra*</em></u><br />8.&#160; &#160;&#160; Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />9.&#160; &#160;&#160; One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez <br /><strong>10.&#160;&#160;&#160; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray* </strong><br />11.&#160;&#160;&#160; <del><em>The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien*</em></del><br />12.&#160;&#160;&#160; Ulysses by James Joyce <br /><strong>13.&#160;&#160;&#160; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy [abridged edition]<br />14.&#160;&#160;&#160; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert*</strong><br />15.&#160;&#160;&#160; Elantris by Brandon Sanderson <br />16.&#160;&#160;&#160; The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky <br />17.&#160;&#160;&#160; Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller <br />18.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte </em><br /><strong>19.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood* </strong><br />20.&#160;&#160;&#160; Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson<br /><strong>21.&#160;&#160;&#160; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens*</strong><br />22.&#160;&#160;&#160; The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie<br />23.&#160;&#160;&#160; Middlemarch by George Eliot<br />24.&#160;&#160;&#160; Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi<br /><strong>25.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco*</strong><br />26.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Kor&#39;an by Anonymous<br />27.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>Moby Dick by Herman Melville</em><br />28.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Odyssey by Homer*<br />29.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer<br />30.&#160;&#160;&#160; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />31.&#160;&#160;&#160;<em> The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo</em><br />32.&#160;&#160;&#160; The historian: a novel by Elizabeth Kostova<br />33.&#160;&#160;&#160;<em> <u>Foucault&#39;s pendulum by Umberto Eco*</u></em><br /><strong>34.&#160;&#160;&#160; Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand*</strong><br />35.&#160;&#160;&#160; The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding<br /><strong>36.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas*<br />37.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*</strong><br />38.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Iliad by Homer*<br /><strong>39.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner*#</strong><br />40.&#160;&#160;&#160; Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf<br /><strong>41.&#160;&#160;&#160; Emma by Jane Austen*</strong><br />42.&#160;&#160;&#160; Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak<br />43.&#160;&#160;&#160; Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence<br /><strong>44.&#160;&#160;&#160; Gulliver&#39;s Travels by Jonathan Swift*</strong><br />45.&#160;&#160;&#160; The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />46.&#160;&#160;&#160; Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond<br />47.&#160;&#160;&#160; Dracula by Bram Stoker<br /><strong>48.&#160;&#160;&#160; Lady Chatterley&#39;s Lover by D.H. Lawrence</strong><br />49.&#160;&#160;&#160; A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers<br /><strong>50.&#160;&#160;&#160; Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens</strong><br />51.&#160;&#160;&#160; The once and future king by T. H. White<br />52.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe*</em><br />53.&#160;&#160;&#160; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf<br /><strong>54.&#160;&#160;&#160; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen*<br />55.&#160;&#160;&#160; Oryx and Crake: a novel by Margaret Atwood*</strong><br />56.&#160;&#160;&#160; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<br />57.&#160;&#160;&#160; Labyrinth by Kate Mosse<br /><strong>58.&#160;&#160;&#160; Tess of the D&#39;Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy*#</strong><br />59.&#160;&#160;&#160; Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond<br />60.&#160;&#160;&#160; The corrections by Jonathan Franzen<br />61.&#160;&#160;&#160; Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe<br />62.&#160;&#160;&#160; Underworld by Don DeLillo<br />63.&#160;&#160;&#160; Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott<br />64.&#160;&#160;&#160; The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck<br /><strong>65.&#160;&#160;&#160; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte</strong><br />66.&#160;&#160;&#160; Count Brass by Michael Moorcock<br />67.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake<br />68.&#160;&#160;&#160; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells<br />69.&#160;&#160;&#160; Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy<br />70.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin<br />71.&#160;&#160;&#160; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />72.&#160;&#160;&#160; A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce<br /><strong>73.&#160;&#160;&#160; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court by Mark Twain*</strong><br />74.&#160;&#160;&#160; The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri<br />75.&#160;&#160;&#160; The inferno by Dante Alighieri<br />76.&#160;&#160;&#160; Gravity&#39;s rainbow by Thomas Pynchon<br />77.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand<br />78.&#160;&#160;&#160; Swann&#39;s way by Marcel Proust<br />79.&#160;&#160;&#160; The poisonwood Bible: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver<br />80.&#160;&#160;&#160; The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel by Michael Chabon<br />81.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James*</em><br /><strong>82.&#160;&#160;&#160; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen*</strong><br />83.&#160;&#160;&#160; Silas Marner by George Eliot<br /><strong>84.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde<br />85.&#160;&#160;&#160; The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas</strong><br />86.&#160;&#160;&#160; The god of small things by Arundhati Roy<br />87.&#160;&#160;&#160; The confusion by Neal Stephenson<br />88.&#160;&#160;&#160; One flew over the cuckoo&#39;s nest by Ken Kesey<br />89.&#160;&#160;&#160; The book thief by Markus Zusak<br />90.&#160;&#160;&#160; Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley<br />91.&#160;&#160;&#160; The system of the world by Neal Stephenson<br />92.&#160;&#160;&#160; Bleak House by Charles Dickens<br />93.&#160;&#160;&#160; The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene<br />94.&#160;&#160;&#160; Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson<br />95.&#160;&#160;&#160; The known world by Edward P. Jones<br />96.&#160;&#160;&#160; The time traveler&#39;s wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br />97.&#160;&#160;&#160; The mill on the Floss by George Eliot <br />98.&#160;&#160;&#160; The English patient by Michael Ondaatje<br />99.&#160;&#160;&#160; Mason &amp; Dixon by Thomas Pynchon<br />100.&#160;&#160; Dubliners by James Joyce<br />101.&#160;&#160; The bonesetter&#39;s daughter by Amy Tan<br />102.&#160;&#160; Les Misérables by Victor Hugo <br />103.&#160;&#160; Infinite jest: a novel by David Foster Wallace<br />104.&#160;&#160; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad<br />105.&#160;&#160; Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison<br /><strong>106.&#160;&#160; Persuasion by Jane Austen*</strong></p><p>Needless to say, I have also gained much amusement from <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Become-Ridiculously-Well-read-Evening-Encapsulations/dp/0140074511">this volume</a></strong>*.<br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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