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The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - didn't make it past page 3 haha
- 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
- The Tale of Two Cities*
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- War and Peace
- Vanity Fair
- The Time Traveler’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 Canterbury Tales
- The Historian - I own this one, but I have yet to read it haha
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Love in the Time of Cholera - on my to-read list
- Brave New World**
- The Fountainhead
- Foucault’s Pendulum
- Middlemarch
- Frankenstein
- The Count of Monte Cristo*
- Dracula
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anansi Boys - on my to-read list
- The Once and Future King
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Poisonwood Bible - I own this, but haven't read it haha that happens all too often
- 1984 - on my to-read list
- Angels & Demons - my favorite of the Dan Brown books
- The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) - I've read Inferno, and own the other two, but haven't read them.
- The Satanic Verses
- Sense and Sensibility - to read list
- 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 - haha, then I proceeded to write a 4 page essay on it, even though I had only read the first chapter.
- Les Misérables - on my to-read list
- The Corrections
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Dune - own it, but have yet to read it
- The Prince
- The Sound and the Fury
- Angela’s Ashes - on my to read list
- The God of Small Things
- A People’s History of the United States
- Cryptonomicon
- Neverwhere - on my to-read list
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - a work in progress
- Dubliner
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Beloved
- Slaughterhouse-five - on my to-read list
- The Scarlet Letter*
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- The Mists of Avalon
- Oryx and Crake - on my to-read list
- Collapse
- Cloud Atlas
- The Confusion
- Lolita
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- The Catcher in the Rye - on my to-read list
- On the Road - on my to-read list
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - on my to-read list
- 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*
17 total. Not terribly shabby.
Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - didn't make it past page 3 haha
- 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
- The Tale of Two Cities*
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- War and Peace
- Vanity Fair
- The Time Traveler’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 Canterbury Tales
- The Historian - I own this one, but I have yet to read it haha
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Love in the Time of Cholera - on my to-read list
- Brave New World**
- The Fountainhead
- Foucault’s Pendulum
- Middlemarch
- Frankenstein
- The Count of Monte Cristo*
- Dracula
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anansi Boys - on my to-read list
- The Once and Future King
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Poisonwood Bible - I own this, but haven't read it haha that happens all too often
- 1984 - on my to-read list
- Angels & Demons - my favorite of the Dan Brown books
- The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) - I've read Inferno, and own the other two, but haven't read them.
- The Satanic Verses
- Sense and Sensibility - to read list
- 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 - haha, then I proceeded to write a 4 page essay on it, even though I had only read the first chapter.
- Les Misérables - on my to-read list
- The Corrections
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Dune - own it, but have yet to read it
- The Prince
- The Sound and the Fury
- Angela’s Ashes - on my to read list
- The God of Small Things
- A People’s History of the United States
- Cryptonomicon
- Neverwhere - on my to-read list
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - a work in progress
- Dubliner
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Beloved
- Slaughterhouse-five - on my to-read list
- The Scarlet Letter*
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- The Mists of Avalon
- Oryx and Crake - on my to-read list
- Collapse
- Cloud Atlas
- The Confusion
- Lolita
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- The Catcher in the Rye - on my to-read list
- On the Road - on my to-read list
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - on my to-read list
- 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*
17 total. Not terribly shabby.