These are the top 106 books tagged “unread” in Librarything. Why 106? Nobody knows…

The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your TBR list.

Jonathan Strange & M. 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
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
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
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (the movie was too depressing for me to even think of picking up the book)
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
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 : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics (Brad loves this book. I don't think I'm that smart.)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

So after going through this list I realize that I have good intentions to read "classics" but I haven't lived up to my goals. Ah well.

Because I need something to do while I eat lunch and no one has been posting very much.

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4. 

"my day, most of them dull in flavor and weighed down with gobs of"

(from Entertaining for a Veggie Planet)

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What's there? 

My bookshelf - specifically the Word Biblical Commentary for Matthew

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? 

Real tv? I can't remember the last time I've watched real tv, but the last tv show I've watched was Scrubs on DVD.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is: 

12:47pm

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 
 
12:42pm

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? 

My husband getting coffee in the kitchen.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? 

About 11:00am. I was sweeping up the last of the mulch and edging from the driveway.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? 

The fruit cup I'm eating.

9. What are you wearing? 

Jeans, my pink and brown tennis shoes from Costa Rica, and my New Life Ranch staff shirt

10. Did you dream last night? 

No surprisingly. I usually dream a lot but I slept like a rock.

11. When did you last laugh? 

Maybe an hour or so ago at a joke of Brad's.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? 

Calendar, my whiteboard, prayer lists, my schedule calendar, posters, a piece of art from Costa Rica, a painting I did, mirrors

13. Seen anything weird lately? 

Not that I can think of.

14. What do you think of this quiz? 

Interesting

15. What is the last film you saw? 

Quincenara - it was so-so

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? 

A prius and a house in West side Chicago.

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know: 

I have been to every continent except Antartica

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do

I would get rid of all forms of oppression in the world.

19. Do you like to dance? 

Only in private. The thought of dancing in front of anyone terrifies me.

20. George Bush:

is sadly mistaken on a lot of issues

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? 

Evangeline Justice

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? 

George Abraham

23. Would you ever consider living abroad? 

Yes! I will pack my bags right now.

24. What do you want to say to God when you reach the pearly gates? 

"Well done, good and faithful servant." - trite but true

Brad and I went to the library today and this is what I came back with:

Four movies

• The March of the Penguins
• The Gleaners and I
• The Fifth Element
• The Crime of Padre Amaro

and Nine books

• One Red Paperclip: or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Simple Office Supply
• The Green Book
• Daughter of the Saints
• A Concise History of Christian Thought
• Little Flowers of Francis Assisi
• The Art of Happiness
• The Golden Compass
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...

...and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which I will probably finish tonight. I can't believe they actually had it at the library. As a side note, I don't like Harry Potter too much but I've read all 6 books and I wanted to finish it out and read the 7th before someone casually mentions how it ends. So, I'm off to read!