and they write books about this sort of thing

Of the “1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die” (says some guy), I’ve read:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summer – Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

36 out of 1,001. Ah well. Of the things on the list I have read, some were force fed from school. If I ever have to read another Edith Wharton book, I’ll shoot myself.

I also just joined Good Reads, a neat site that reminds me somewhat of myspace… but uh, just with books.