My Cultural Ignorance

This is a meme that Paul at Aurora Walking Vacation got from Dawn at Carpe Diem. I didn't want to do it and show my cultural ignorance, but let Paul talk me into it. Following Dawn's instructions, here's my list...

The books listed below are the top 105 books most often tagged as being unread by LibraryThing users (as of October 3rd).

I am changing the instructions so that you copy the list without any bolds or strike throughs.

I will annotate, in italics, as follows: read, read a lot, TBR (to be read), gave up (for those I started & didn't finish), never (for those I don't want to read) and ??? (for those books I don't know at all).

The Strange Case of Jonathan and Mr Norell (???)

Anna Karenina (TBR, maybe)
Crime and Punishment (TBR)
Catch-22 (read a lot - my all-time favorite book)
One hundred years of solitude (read - didn't get what all the fuss was about)
Wuthering Heights (never)
The Silmarillion (gave up)
Life of Pi (???)
The Name of the Rose (read - more like muddled through)
Don Quixote (TBR)

Moby Dick (TBR)
Ulysses (probably never)
Madame Bovary (never)
The Odyssey (TBR if I can find a good translation)
Pride and Prejudice (never)
Jane Eyre (never)
A Tale of Two Cities (read)
The Brothers Karamazov (TBR)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (TBR)
War and Peace (gave up)
Vanity Fair (the magazine? no? TBR, maybe)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (TBR)
The Iliad (TBR - see The Odyssey above)
The Blind Assassin (TBR, maybe - but I don't think Margaret Atwood can top The Handmaid's Tale)
The Kite Runner (???)
Mrs. Dalloway (never)
Great Expectations (gave up - TBR soon)
American Gods (never)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (never)
Atlas Shrugged (never)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (never)
Memoirs of a Geisha (probably never)
Middlesex (TBR, maybe)
Quicksilver (???)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (???)
The Canterbury Tales (never)
The Historian (???)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (gave up)
Love in the Time of Cholera (probably never since I wasn't impressed by 100 Years of Solitude)
Brave New World (read - excellent!)
The Fountainhead (never - quit with the Ayn Rand already!)
Foucault’s Pendulum (TBR, maybe)
Middlemarch (probably never)
Frankenstein (read)

The Count of Monte Cristo (read)
Dracula (read)
A Clockwork Orange (never - saw the movie, wasn't impressed)
Anansi Boys (???)
The Once and Future King (read - parts are excellent)
The Grapes of Wrath (read - excellent. The movie's pretty excellent too.)
The Poisonwood Bible (TBR, maybe)
1984 (read - aaarh, the rats!)
Angels & Demons (never - not a Dan Brown fan)
The Inferno (TBR, maybe)
The Satanic Verses (TBR, maybe)
Sense and Sensibility (never)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (TBR, maybe)
Mansfield Park (never)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (read - see The Grapes of Wrath above.)
To the Lighthouse (???)
Tess of the Ubervilles (never)
Oliver Twist (TBR - I hope to eventually read all of Dicken's books)
Gulliver’s Travels (read, I think. I definitely remember reading it, but can't remember if I ever saw it through to the end.)
Les Miserables (TBR)
The Corrections (TBR)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (???)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (???)
Dune (read - loved it, hated the sequels I muddled through)
The Prince (TBR, maybe)
The Sound and the Fury (TBR)
Angela’s Ashes (never)
The God of Small Things (???)
Cryptonomicon (???)
Neverwhere (???)
A Confederacy of Dunces (TBR)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (TBR)
Dubliners (probably never)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (probably never)
Beloved (never)
Slaughterhouse-five (read - excellent. Have also read about eight or ten other Kurt Vonnegut books.)
The Scarlet Letter (probably never)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (???)
The Mists of Avalon (probably never)
Oryx and Crake:a novel (probably never - see The Blind Assassin above.)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (probably never)
Cloud Atlas (???)
The Confusion (???)
Lolita (never)
Persuasion (???)
Northanger Abbey (???)
The Catcher in the Rye (read - what's the big deal?)
On the Road (read - what's the big deal?)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TBR - I've seen a couple of versions of the movie though.)
Freakonomics (probably never, but I have visited the Freakonomics blog occasionally.)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance(probably never)
The Aeneid (probably never)
Watership Down (read, but was much more impressed by Traveller, the "autobiography" of Robert E. Lee's favorite horse)
Gravity’s Rainbow (never)
The Hobbit (read a lot)
In Cold Blood (never)
White Teeth (???)
Treasure Island (read)
David Copperfield (read)
The Three Musketeers (read)