Pretentious Book Meme

[jamesq]

Bold the books you've read.

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

Comments

[garething.livejournal.com]

Behold my bolded list of those books that I have actually read:

Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth

All in school too... other than that, I avoided these dozers like the plague...

[jamesq]

How do you know they're dozers if you haen't read them? A lot of them are quite enjoyable.

I spend too much time in books...

[(Anonymous)]

To save space I'll just include the ones I've read...

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (en Francais)
Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables (en Francais)
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - 1984
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales (That one was a slog!)
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (way before the movie made it fashionable reading)
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

- Grog
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island

[nikitaa.livejournal.com]

Like the others... the ones that I've read... the scary part is that I own quite a few of these too...

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Citie
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace (the unabridged version)
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide

[wendy-licious.livejournal.com]

Like the others, here's the ones I've read (a much shorter list then many of the others here):

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie

But I think I should get bonus points for the fact that I sat through the film version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles when I was only 11.

Me too!

[wackynephews.livejournal.com]

I'll just list the ones I've read:

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust (I read Marlowe's, does that count?)
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie