106 Books of Pretension

This isn´t exactly related to arts, or designs. Cultures? Surely. I was reading a blog the other day on this. This meme apparently has been going on for quite a while. Nevermind that. I like a good meme. I especially like a good meme on books. This list of ´106 books of pretension´ was based from the books most frequently marked unread by Library Thing users.

Let´s get started, shall we?

Books I´ve read are in bold.
Books I´ve started but haven´t finished are in italics.
Books I own but haven´t read are marked with a dagger (†).

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I honestly have only heard of this book now. Off to the not so good start, are we.
   
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22. Well, they didn´t tell me to at my school.
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Always a favorite of mine.
   
6. Wuthering Heights. The soppy young me always cried whenever I read this. Everytime. :P
   
7. The Silmarillion - I could never really get into this.
   
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. Never an Austen fan, I´m afraid.
    
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
    
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
20. War and Peace
    
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler’s Wife
23. The Iliad
    
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner - I´ve been meaning to read this. I´m blaming it on babyhood.
    
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
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
    
35. Quicksilver †- Owned due to the fact that husband reads these sort of things. I myself have no intention of reading it.
    
36. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
37. The Canterbury Tales
    
38. The Historian : a novel
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. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
    
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
53. 1984
    
54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
    
56. The Satanic Verses. Was banned. :P
57. Sense and Sensibility. Never an Austen fan, I say.
    
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver’s Travels
65. Les Misérables
66. The Corrections
    
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela Ashes: a memoir†
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
75. Cryptonomicon †. See reason for #35
    
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything- I don´t own the book, so I sort of read it every now and then when I see it at other people´s places.
    
79. Dubliners
    
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughterhouse-five
83. The Scarlet Letter
    
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake: a novel
    
87. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
    
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
    
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
    
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. What can I say, there´s still an economist in me. :P
    
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycles Maintenance: an inquiry into values.
    
98. The Aeneid
    
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity’s Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
     
102. In Cold Blood
     
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers

Conclusion:
Have read: 25
Haven´t finished: 6
Owned but unread: 3

Huh, can´t afford to be a book snob, can I.