Pretentious Scale

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 9:09PM
[beastmomma]

I found this from the Ax For the Frozen Sea.  Listed below are the top 106 Books Most Often Marked as "Unread" by Library Thing's Users.

Strikethrough for books I’ve read before.
Italics for books I’ve read before but haven’t finished.
Copy and paste on your blog to see how “pretentious” you are.
And, remember, it’s all in good fun.

1. 1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. 2. Anna Karenia
3. 3. Crime and Punishment
4. 4. Catch 22
5. 5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. 6. Wuthering Heights
7. 7. The Silmarillion
8. 8. Life of Pi : a novel
9. 9. The Aeneid
10. 10. The Name of the Rose
11. 11. Don Quixote
12. 12.  Moby Dick
13. 13. Ulysses
14. 14. Madame Bovary
15. 15. The Odyssey
16. 16. Pride and Prejudice
17. 17, Jane Eyre
18. 18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. 19. The Brothers Karamazov
20. 20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies.
21. 21. War and Peace
22. 22. Vanity Fair
23. 23. The Time Traveler's Wife
24. 24. The Iliad
25. 25. Emma
26. 26. The Blind Assassin
27. 27. The Kite Runner
28. 28. Mrs. Dalloway
29. 29. Great Expectations
30. 30. American Gods
31. 31. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
32. 32. Atlas Shrugged
33. 33. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in books
34. 34. Memoirs of a Geisha
35. 35. Middlesex
36. 36. Quicksilver
37. 37. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
38. 38. The Canterbury Tales
39. 39. The Historian : a novel
40. 40. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
41. 41. Love in the Time of Cholera
42. 42. Brave New world
43. 43. The Fountainhead
44. 44.  Foucault’s Pendulum
45. 45. Middlemarch
46. 46. Frankenstein
47. 47. The Count of Monte Cristo
48. 48. Dracula
49. 49.  A Clockwork Orange
50. 50. Anansi Boys
51. 51. The Once and Future King
52. 52. The Grapes of Wrath
53. 53. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
54. 54. 1984
55. 55. Angels & Demons
56. 56. The Inferno
57. 57. The Satanic Verses
58. 58. Sense and Sensibility
59. 59. The Picture of Dorian Gray
60. 60.  Mansfield Park
61. 61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
62. 62. To the Lighthouse
63. 63. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
64. 64.  Oliver Twist
65. 65. Gulliver’s Travels
66. 66. Les Misérables
67. 67. The Corrections
68. 68. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
69. 69. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
70. 70. Dune
71. 71. The Prince
72. 72. The Sound and the Fury
73. 73. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
74. 74. The God of Small Things
75. 75. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
76. 76. Cryptonomicon
77. 77. Neverwhere
78. 78. A Confederacy of Dunces
79. 79. A Short History of Nearly Everything
80. 80. Dubliners
81. 81. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
82. 82. Beloved
83. 83. Slaughterhouse-five
84. 84. The Scarlet Letter
85. 85. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
86. 86.  The Mists of Avalon
87. 87. Oryx and Crake: A Novel
88. 88. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
89. 89. Cloud Atlas
90. 90. The Confusion
91. 91. Lolita
92. 92. Persuasion
93. 93. Northanger Abbey
94. 94. The Catcher in the Rye
95. 95. On the Road
96. 96. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
97. 97.  Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
98. 98. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
99. 99. Watership Down
100. 100.  Gravity’s Rainbow
101. 101. The Hobbit
102. 102. In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
103. 103. White Teeth
104. 104.  Treasure Island
105. 105. David Copperfield
106. 106. The Three Musketeers

I have actually only read 24 of these books; does that mean that I am only 22.6% pretentious?  This list made me feel like I need to do a lot more reading because I realized how many books I have not read!

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