The meme is to bold the books I've read, underline the titles I read for school, and italicize the books I started and didn't finish. School was a long time ago, but I was a French major, and there aren't a lot of French books on this list. I spent many years in a superb book club in Cincinnati (connected with Christ Church Cathedral) where we read a lot of these, which I marked with an asterisk.
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Anna Karenina
- Crime and Punishment
- Catch-22*
- One Hundred Years of Solitude*
- Wuthering Heights
- The Silmarillion
- Life of Pi: A novel*
- The Name of the Rose*
- Don Quixote
- Moby Dick*
- Ulysses
- Madame Bovary* (read in college and again in the book club)
- The Odyssey
- Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Eyre
- The Tale of Two Cities
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- War and Peace
- Vanity Fair
- The Time Traveler's Wife*
- The Iliad
- Emma
- The Blind Assassin
- The Kite Runner*
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Great Expectations
- American Gods
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (most irritating book in living memory)
- Atlas Shrugged
- Reading Lolita in Tehran*
- Memoirs of a Geisha*
- Middlesex*
- Quicksilver
- Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the West (at first I bolded this, but what I read (and loved) was the book on which Wicked was based, Was by Geoff Ryman.)
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Historian : a novel
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Love in the Time of Cholera*
- Brave New World
- The Fountainhead
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Middlemarch
- Frankenstein
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dracula
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anansi Boys
- The Once and Future King
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Poisonwood Bible*
- 1984
- Angels & Demons
- Inferno
- The Satanic Verses*
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Mansfield Park
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- To the lighthouse
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Oliver Twist
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Dune
- The Prince
- The Sound and the Fury
- Angela's Ashes: A memoir*
- The God of Small Things*
- A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
- Cryptonomicon
- Neverwhere
- A Confederacy of Dunces*
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Dubliners
- The Unbearable lightness of Being
- Beloved
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- The Scarlet Letter
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- The Mists of Avalon
- Oryx and Crake
- Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed
- Cloud Atlas
- The Confusion (along with Quicksilver, part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Volume 2 (System of the World) isn't on this list, so I guess everyone is successfully reading the middle third.)
- Lolita
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- The Catcher in the Rye
- On the Road
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into values
- The Aeneid
- Watership Down
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The Hobbit
- In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
- White Teeth
- Treasure Island
- David Copperfield
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