O rly?

[mercy_angel_09]

Completely unrelated to the last post, which was purposely silly. This one is being turned into a meme.

So how many have you read? (X)
How many do you want to read? (+)
How many do you want to avoid? (-)

1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne (-)
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (-)
3. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (+)
4. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (X)
5. Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift (-)

Read: 1
To Read: 1
Avoid: 3

6. Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville (-)
7. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (X)
8. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (-)
9. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (X)
10. The Odyssey by Homer (+)

Read: 3
To Read: 2
Avoid: 5

11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (-)
12. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce (-)
13. Paradise Lost by John Milton (-)
14. Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton (+)
15. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (+)

Read: 3
To Read: 4
Avoid: 8

16. Candide by Voltaire (X)
17. Oedipus The King by Sophocles (-)
18. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo (+)
19. The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (+)
20. The Sea Wolf by Jack London (-)

Read: 4
To Read: 6
Avoid: 10

21. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand (X)
22. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (X)
23. Collected Poems by Robert Browning (+)
24. The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson (X)
25. The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James (-)

Read: 7
To Read: 7
Avoid: 11

26. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (X)
27. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (+)
28. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (+)
29. Collected Poems by John Keats (+)
30. On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin (+)

Read: 8
To Read: 11
Avoid: 11

31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (X)
32. Collected Poems by Robert Frost (X)
33. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving (X)
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell (X)
35. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (-)

Read: 12
To Read: 11
Avoid: 12

36. She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (-)
37. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck (+)
38. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen (X)
39. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (-)
40. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (+)

Read: 13
To Read: 13
Avoid: 14

41. The Iliad by Homer (+)
42. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (-)
43. The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (+)
44. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (-)
45. Aesop's Fables by Aesop (+)

Read: 13
To Read: 16
Avoid: 16

46. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (-)
47. The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (+)
48. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (+)
49. Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle (-)
50. The Aeneid by Virgil (+)

Read: 13
To Read: 19
Avoid: 18

51. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (+)
52. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (+)
53. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (-)
54. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (X)
55. Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw (+)

Read: 14
To Read: 22
Avoid: 19

56. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (+)
57. Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare (X)
58. The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (-)
59. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (-)
60. The Analects of Confucius by Confucius (+)

Read: 15
To Read: 24
Avoid: 21

61. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (X)
62. Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats (+)
63. The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (-)
64. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (+)
65. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (-)

Read: 16
To Read: 26
Avoid: 23

66. Beowulf (-)
67. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (-)
68. The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant (-)
69. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (-)
70. Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev (-)

Read: 16
To Read: 26
Avoid: 28

71. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (-)
72. War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy (-)
73. The History of Early Rome by Livy (+)
74. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (X)
75. The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (+)

Read: 17
To Read: 28
Avoid:30

76. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (-)
77. Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (+)
78. Dracula by Bram Stoker (+)
79. The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám (-)
80. The Red And The Black by Stendhal (-)

Read: 17
To Read: 30
Avoid: 33

81. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins (+)
82. The Republic by Plato (-)
83. Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson (X)
84. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (-)
85. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (-)

Read: 18
To Read: 31
Avoid: 36

86. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (X)
87. Silas Marner by George Eliot (-)
88. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (+)
89. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (X)
90. Billy Budd by Herman Melville (-)

Read: 20
To Read: 32
Avoid: 38

91. The Confessions by St. Augustine (-)
92. Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (X)
93. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (+)
94. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (-)
95. The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner (-)

Read: 21
To Read: 33
Avoid: 41

96. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (-)
97. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (+)
98. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (+)
99. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (X)
100. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (+)

I have read 22 books on this list. I want to read 36 books on this list. I want to avoid 42 books on this list.