106 books I mostly haven't read

This is is a list of the top 106 books that lie unread on people’s shelves, by LibraryThing. I saw it on Helen's blog, and thought I would have a go at it because I actually read a few pages of real book this week, not just drivel on the internet. You have to bold the ones you’ve read of your own accord, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, and are supposed to underline the ones you had to read for school or university, but I can't figure out how to underline on this so I'm just making a note afterwards.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude I can't remember if I finished it or not.
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 [A] Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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
1984 
Angels & Demons 
Inferno
The Satanic Verses I read most of it, then had to give the book back.  It's long enough ago now that I would have to start over.
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 or was it for school?
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
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 (for school, I think)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter (for school) 
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon twice!
Oryx and Crake
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 (for school)
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

I've read more than I thought I had!  

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