Found over at Lori’s booknook 
And many thanks to alejna for coining the term me-me, because I cringe everytime I read that trendy blogosphere bastardization of the word meme. But me-me is not only clever, it actually says what these thangs are all about, which is “all about me”.
Instructions…
Bold what you have read, italicize your DNFs,
strikethroughthe ones you hated, put *asterisks next to those you’ve read more than once, and put a + cross in front of the books that are on your bookshelf.
It’s another self-tagging me-me … but do let us know where to find your answers. 
- 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 [only read book one]
- +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*
- +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
- 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
casa azahar 
So, Middlemarch is on my bookshelf, waiting to be read. Did you enjoy it??
🙂
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I read Anna Karenina, you read War and Peace. So let me ask you, did you always mean to read the other, but haven’t yet motivated? That’s how I feel.
I’ve tried starting Gravity’s Rainbow multiple times…so we’re probably “on the same page” with respect to that one 🙂
I read Angel’s & Demons, and the more famous one…Tha Da Vinci Code. The second was better, IMO, b/c there are some key plot elements that rely on physics that I know about in the first one, and they were unrealistic…
I highly, highly, highly recommend Cryptonomicon, but alternatively Quicksilver. They are long but are over too soon.
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I seem to recall that Middlemarch bored me stupid, Lori, but somehow I didn’t hate it. Sorry I can’t be more specific but it was a very l-o-n-g time ago and my memory is crap.
I don’t know why I’ve never read Anna Karenina, Arnie. I read War and Peace one winter when I couldn’t afford to buy any new books and one of my flatmates had left it behind when they moved out. I quite liked it, though I’d never read it again.
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Done!
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Okey-dokey … will check it out, WC.
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I read Middlemarch quite recently and really enjoyed it.
Madame Bovary is definitely in my top 10.
Freakonomics is worth dipping in to. but I didn’t think much of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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WC mentioned on her blog that her DNFs were also the ones she hated, but I don’t think that’s quite the case with me.
As I said earlier, I remember finding Middlemarch (and more recently, Emma) really boring. But I didn’t actually dislike them, let alone hate them enough not to finish them.
Likewise, with some of the ones I didn’t finish, it seemed more a case of not being in the mood at the time, or even that it just wasn’t the kind of book I tend to enjoy, but I wouldn’t say I actually disliked them – I just didn’t fined them interesting. So that’s why there’s only one struckout book on my list.
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On Lori’s blog the last instruction is to underline the books on your bookshelf (in your TBR pile).
I changed this here because I can’t figure out how to underline stuff here 😳 and I don’t have a TBR pile. Well, okay, there is one I have yet to read, but it’s not on this list.
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DNF?
Did not finish?
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Yes, sorry dq, I should have written that in the post as I had to ask Lori about it too.
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And everyone is answering the question about Middlemarch, when you should have all read my mind and realized that I’d confused ‘march’ with ‘sex’ [is there some Freudian thing here that I’m missing??]. Az, or anyone, how was Middlesex? It was a Christmas present from my mother-in-law (I married into a family that buys books as gifts!!), and I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Thanks.
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I’m glad you enjoy the me-me etymology. However, I’m not sure I can claim its coining. I think others have also noted the me-fullness of memes.
I’m planning to put up my list soon, but continue to be sidetracked by pesky work obligations…
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I’ve put mine up, too. (See pingback above.)
I used your version with the plus to mean “on the shelves.” It was fun to see how many of them I own. (And actually, it works well for the origins of this, being the most commonly owned but not read books on Library Thing.
I have a story (not much of one) about reading Middlemarch. I remember the act of reading it. Sitting down with the big book, and slogging my way through it. But come a couple of years later, I couldn’t recall a thing about it. I met a woman who was a lit professor, and we were talking about books. And when this book came up, and I said I’d read it, I think she must have thougt I was lying. Because I couldn’t even name the characters.
I think this was a sign that it wasn’t a favorite book of mine.
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