I Read, You Read, We All Read For Ice Cream!

I blog-lifted this from Dustbury, who swiped it from Fillyjonk. It's a second-generation blog-lift. As my results are somewhat disatisfying (read: pathetic), I am going to go home right now and start reading. And also maybe cleaning, as my house is kinda dirty.

Fillyjonk's explanation of The List: "What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."

I'm adding two other markings indicating the books I own but have not started, and books I haven't read and also don't own, but whose movies I watched. (Which is really what the list is about, I think [the owning but not reading, not the not-owning and movie-watching]. I don't even own some of these books, so I guess I'm not that well-rounded and smart in appearance. Whatevs.) The books I own but haven't read (or even started) are in red. The books I don't own and have not read but whose movies I've watched are in blue.

• 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 (the Johnny Depp version... MEOW!)
• 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 (Gene Wilder edition)
• 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 (and Purgatory and Paradise)
• 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 (the musical! "Please sir, can I have some more?")
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Les Misérables (I've also seen this on stage. Twice. Woo!)
• 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 (the Disney version)
• 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 (Does Steve Martin in "The Three Amigos" count? No?)

Now I feel tre dumb, as my list has more "seen in the movies" than "read with my own two eyes... and also brain." But I do pride myself on the fact that I have picked up many of these books, read their jackets, and then chose not to buy them because either A) wasn't my type of book, or B) I thought their cover was ugly.

Yeah. I judge books by their covers. Sue me.