106 Books Of Pretension Meme

Via Pharyngula and Stranger Fruit, Drug Monkey has a list of Pretentious Books that I should read. I'm not very good at normal fiction, but I might as well put it up as well as it fits in well with the list theme of late.

Although, I must admit, my list only has 105 entries for some reason.

As usual, bold indicates the ones that I've read, italics the ones that I started and never finished, an asterisk indicates any books that I might have liked. Bracketed numbers indicate the ones that I haven't heard of.

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell


2. Anna Karenina


3. Crime and Punishment


4. Catch-22


5. One Hundred Years of Solitude


6. Wuthering Heights


7. The Silmarillion


8. Life of Pi : a novel


9. The Name of the Rose


10. Don Quixote


11. Moby Dick


12. Ulysses


13. Madame Bovary


14. The Odyssey


15. Pride and Prejudice


16. Jane Eyre


17. The Tale of Two Cities


18. The Brothers Karamazov


19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies [1]
    


20. War and Peace


21. Vanity Fair


22. The Time Traveler’s Wife


23. The Iliad


24. Emma [2]


25. The Blind Assassin [3]


26. The Kite Runner


27. Mrs. Dalloway


28. Great Expectations


29. American Gods


30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius*


31. Atlas Shrugged


32. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books [4]
    


33. Memoirs of a Geisha


34. Middlesex


35. Quicksilver [On my to-read list]
    


36. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West


37. The Canterbury tales


38. The Historian : a novel [5]
    


39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


40. Love in the Time of Cholera


41. Brave New World


42. The Fountainhead


43. Foucault’s Pendulum


44. Middlemarch


45. Frankenstein


46. The Count of Monte Cristo


47. Dracula


48. A Clockwork Orange


49. The Once and Future King


50. The Grapes of Wrath


51. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel [6]
    


52. 1984


53. Angels & Demons


54. The Inferno


55. The Satanic Verses


56. Sense and Sensibility


57. The Picture of Dorian Gray


58. Mansfield Park


59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest


60. To the Lighthouse [7]
    


61. Tess of the D’Urbervilles


62. Oliver Twist


63. Gulliver’s Travels


64. Les Misérables


65. The Corrections [8]
    


66. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay


67. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [9]
    


68. Dune


69. The Prince


70. The Sound and the Fury


71. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir


72. The God of Small Things [10]
    


73. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present


74. Cryptonomicon [Also on my to-read list]
    


75. Neverwhere [Also on my to-read list]
    


76. A Confederacy of Dunces [11]
    


77. A Short History of Nearly Everything


78. Dubliners [12]
    


79. The Unbearable Lightness of Being


80. Beloved [13]
    


81. Slaughterhouse-five [Also on my to-read list]
    


82. The Scarlet Letter


83. Eats, Shoots & Leaves [14]
    


84. The Mists of Avalon


85. Oryx and Crake : a novel [15]
    


86. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed [16]
    


87. Cloud Atlas [17]
    


88. The Confusion [18]
    


89. Lolita


90. Persuasion [19]
    


91. Northanger Abbey [20]
    


92. The Catcher in the Rye


93. On the Road
    


94. The Hunchback of Notre Dame


95. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything*


96. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values


97. The Aeneid


98. Watership Down


99. Gravity’s Rainbow


100. The Hobbit


101. In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences


102. White Teeth [21]
     


103. Treasure Island


104. David Copperfield


105. The Three Musketeers

Okay, first of all, that required absolutely to much time. I had to go through and reformat the html throughout the entire list because it was completely farking itself.

Second, now I have a new list of books . . . If I ever manage to make it through the 99 books already on my shelves.

Third, I'm hovering around 1/5: 22 books read so far.