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I pinched this from Musings from the Sofa.

The Rules:

• Bold what you have read
• Italicise books started but not finished
• Strike through books hated
• Add an asterisk to books read more than once
• Underline books on your tbr list

So here goes:

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• Catch-22*
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Wuthering Heights
• The Silmarillion*
• Life of Pi
• 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
• 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 (though hate is probably a bit too strong….)
• Atlas Shrugged
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Middlesex
• Quicksilver
• Wicked
• 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 (planning to re-read this as part of The Arthurian Challenge)
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Poisonwood Bible
• 1984
• Angels and Demons
• The 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
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Les Miserables
• 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
• Cryptonomicon
• Neverwhere
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Dubliners
• The Unberable Lightness of Being
• Beloved
• Slaughterhouse Five*
• The Scarlet Letter
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• The Mists of Avalon (planning to read this as part of The Arthurian Challenge)
• Oryx and Crake
• Collapse
• Cloud Atlas
• The Confusion
• Lolita
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey
• The Catcher in the Rye
• On the Road
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Freakonomics
• Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance
• The Aeneid
• Watership Down
• Gravity’s Rainbow
• The Hobbit*
• In Cold Blood
• White Teeth
• Treasure Island
• David Copperfield
• The Three Musketeers

Result (rough count, not validated!): books read = 38, books hated = 1, on my tbr list = 14 (though between us the Book God and I have some of the others, they’re just not on my radar at the moment) and books unfinished =  5 (and look how many of these are by Jane Austen, oh dear)