{"id":706,"date":"2007-10-06T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/10\/06\/another-book-meme\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T18:48:09","slug":"another-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/10\/another-book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via just about everyone. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/tag_allbooks.php?tag=unread\">106 books most often tagged as unread on LibraryThing<\/a>. Bold the ones you&#8217;ve read.  Add an asterisk to the ones you&#8217;ve read more than once. Italicise the ones you&#8217;ve started but not finished. Strikethrough the ones you hated. Underline the ones on your &#8220;to read&#8221; list. <\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text=\"The list...\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Anna Karenina<\/li>\n<li><i>Crime and Punishment<\/i><\/li>\n<li><u>Catch-22<\/u><\/li>\n<li>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/li>\n<li>Wuthering Heights<\/li>\n<li><b>The Silmarillion<\/b>*<\/li>\n<li>Life of Pi: A Novel<\/li>\n<li><u>The Name of the Rose<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Don Quixote<\/li>\n<li>Moby Dick<\/li>\n<li>Ulysses<\/li>\n<li>Madame Bovary<\/li>\n<li>The Odyssey<\/li>\n<li>Pride and Prejudice<\/li>\n<li>Jane Eyre<\/li>\n<li>The Tale of Two Cities<\/li>\n<li>The Brothers Karamazov<\/li>\n<li><b>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies<\/b>*<\/li>\n<li>War and Peace<\/li>\n<li>Vanity Fair<\/li>\n<li>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/li>\n<li>The Iliad<\/li>\n<li>Emma<\/li>\n<li>The Blind Assassin<\/li>\n<li>The Kite Runner<\/li>\n<li>Mrs Dalloway<\/li>\n<li>Great Expectations<\/li>\n<li><b>American Gods<\/b><\/li>\n<li>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering enius<\/li>\n<li>Atlas Shrugged<\/li>\n<li>Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books<\/li>\n<li>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/li>\n<li>Middlesex<\/li>\n<li><u>Quicksilver<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<\/li>\n<li>The Canterbury Tales<\/li>\n<li>The Historian: A Novel<\/li>\n<li>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/li>\n<li>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/li>\n<li>Brave New World<\/li>\n<li>The Fountainhead<\/li>\n<li>Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum<\/li>\n<li>Middlemarch<\/li>\n<li>Frankenstein<\/li>\n<li>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/li>\n<li>Dracula<\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange<\/li>\n<li><b>Anansi Boys<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Once and Future King<\/b>*<\/li>\n<li>The Grapes of Wrath<\/li>\n<li>The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel<\/li>\n<li>1984<\/li>\n<li>Angels &amp; Demons<\/li>\n<li>The Inferno<\/li>\n<li>The Satanic Verses<\/li>\n<li>Sense and Sensibility<\/li>\n<li>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/li>\n<li>Mansfield Park<\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/li>\n<li>To the Lighthouse<\/li>\n<li>Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles<\/li>\n<li><b>Oliver Twist<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/li>\n<li>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/li>\n<li>The Corrections<\/li>\n<li>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/li>\n<li>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/li>\n<li><b>Dune<\/b>*<\/li>\n<li>The Prince<\/li>\n<li>The Sound and the Fury<\/li>\n<li>Angela&#8217;s Ashes: A Memoir<\/li>\n<li>The God of Small Things<\/li>\n<li>A People&#8217;s History of the United States: 1492-Present<\/li>\n<li><u>Cryptonomicon<\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>Neverwhere<\/b><\/li>\n<li>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/li>\n<li><b>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Dubliners<\/li>\n<li>The Unbearable Lightness of Being<\/li>\n<li>Beloved<\/li>\n<li>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/li>\n<li>The Scarlet Letter<\/li>\n<li><b>Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u>The Mists of Avalon<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Oryx and Crake: A Novel<\/li>\n<li>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Atlas<\/li>\n<li><u>The Confusion<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Lolita<\/li>\n<li>Persuasion<\/li>\n<li>Northanger Abbey<\/li>\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye<\/li>\n<li>On the Road<\/li>\n<li>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/li>\n<li>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<\/li>\n<li>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values<\/li>\n<li><i>The Aeneid<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Watership Down<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>The Hobbit<\/b>*<\/li>\n<li>In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences<\/li>\n<li><i>White Teeth<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Treasure Island<\/b><\/li>\n<li>David Copperfield<\/li>\n<li>The Three Musketeers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>Conclusions? I&#8217;m way behind on my Neal Stephenson reading, and I haven&#8217;t read many &#8216;classics&#8217; but nor have a lot of other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via just about everyone. The 106 books most often tagged as unread on LibraryThing. Bold the ones you&#8217;ve read. Add an asterisk to the ones you&#8217;ve read more than once. Italicise the ones you&#8217;ve started but not finished. Strikethrough the ones you hated. Underline the ones on your &#8220;to read&#8221; list. Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-memes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}