OK, I usually don’t do this meme crud but this list looked interesting.<\/p>\n
Top unread books from LibraryThing: Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell<\/strong> (Actually I’m reading it now but I will almost certainly finish it.) OK, I usually don’t do this meme crud but this list looked interesting. Top unread books from LibraryThing: Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Actually I’m reading it now but I will almost certainly finish it.) Anna … Continue reading “Bookz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnna Karenina
\nCrime and Punishment
\nCatch-22 (In my to-read pile.)
\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude
\nWuthering Heights<\/strong> (I finished it and didn’t hate it, but thought it was terribly disjointed and poorly written.)
\nThe Silmarillion<\/em> (I will have to try again but I just couldn’t get into this one though I really like LOTR and Hobbit.)
\nLife of Pi : a novel
\nThe Name of the Rose
\nDon Quixote
\nMoby Dick
\nUlysses (Joyce)<\/em> (Does Joyce really make sense to anyone?)
\nMadame Bovary
\nThe Odyssey
\nPride and Prejudice (In my to-read pile.)
\nJane Eyre
\nA Tale of Two Cities
\nThe Brothers Karamazov
\nGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies<\/strong>
\nWar and Peace
\nVanity Fair
\nThe Time Traveler’s Wife
\nThe Iliad
\nEmma
\nThe Blind Assassin
\nThe Kite Runner
\nMrs. Dalloway
\nGreat Expectations
\nAmerican Gods<\/strong>
\nA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
\nAtlas Shrugged<\/strong>
\nReading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
\nMemoirs of a Geisha (In my to-read pile.)
\nMiddlesex (66)
\nQuicksilver<\/strong> (This one took a while to get through. OMG two more!)
\nWicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
\nThe Canterbury Tales<\/strong>
\nThe Historian : A Novel
\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
\nLove in the Time of Cholera
\nBrave New World<\/strong>
\nThe Fountainhead<\/strong> (Atlas Shrugged is better.)
\nFoucault’s Pendulum
\nMiddlemarch
\nFrankenstein
\nThe Count of Monte Cristo
\nDracula
\nA Clockwork Orange
\nAnansi Boys<\/strong>
\nThe Once and Future King
\nThe Grapes of Wrath<\/strong>
\nThe Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
\n1984<\/strong>
\nAngels & Demons
\nThe Inferno
\nThe Satanic Verses
\nSense and Sensibility
\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray
\nMansfield Park
\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
\nTo the Lighthouse
\nTess of the D’Urbervilles
\nOliver Twist (In my to-read pile.)
\nGulliver’s Travels
\nLes mis\u00c3\u00a9rables
\nThe Corrections
\nThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/strong> (Surprisingly good.)
\nDune<\/strong> (I seem to recall this one being hard to get through too.)
\nThe Prince<\/em>
\nAngela’s Ashes : A Memoir
\nThe God of Small Things
\nA People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present (In my to-read pile.)
\nCryptonomicon<\/strong>
\nNeverwhere<\/strong> (Really liked this one!)
\nA Confederacy of Dunces
\nA Short History of Nearly Everything
\nDubliners
\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
\nBeloved
\nSlaughterhouse-Five<\/strong>
\nThe Scarlet Letter<\/strong>
\nEats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
\nThe Mists of Avalon
\nOryx and Crake : A Novel
\nCollapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (In my to-read pile.)
\nCloud Atlas
\nThe Confusion (In my to-read pile.)
\nLolita
\nPersuasion
\nNorthanger Abbey
\nThe Catcher in the Rye (In my to-read pile.)
\nOn the Road
\nThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
\nFreakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<\/strong>
\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values (In my to-read pile.)
\nThe Aeneid
\nWatership Down
\nGravity’s Rainbow<\/strong> (You’d think this would be a miss since I don’t like Joyce but I did like this one.)
\nThe Hobbit<\/strong>
\nIn Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
\nWhite Teeth
\nTreasure Island (In my to-read pile.)
\nDavid Copperfield
\nThe Three Musketeers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"