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primavera . Here are the 106 most-unread books on LibraryThing (where I have an account under this name that I haven't updated since I moved out of the residence halls. I also created the Blue Ox Millworks LibraryThing to finally get all their stuff listed somewhere. Brag.)
Bold what you've read. Underline what you never finished. Italicize what you have but haven't read. In my case, if you see something underlined, it's been attempted multiple times. I do eventually read those books; for example, Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess took me about five years to read, but I did it! And I don't own the majority of these books. Mostly, I check them out of the library.
In other book news, I signed up for the Penguin Blog-A-Classic Challenge. Penguin will send you a free book if you manage to get in when they're open for submissions. They choose the book. I'll be reading and reporting on "Of Jaguars and Electric Eels" by Alexander von Humboldt. I think it's about his adventures in Brazil?
1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Anna Karenina
Beloved
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Jane Eyre
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales (Actually, only in translation. I feel like that's cheating.)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit (I had this read to me. I keep trying to read it now and get about six pages in and just can't continue.)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (I bought a secondhand copy with a terrible cover illustration. It was held together with a rubber band and cost 34 cents. I stayed up all night to finish it in one go!)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Prince
The Silmarillion
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Life of Pi : a novel
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons (I won't read anything by Dan Brown and you can't make me)
Atlas Shrugged
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Les Misérables (only the abridged)
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Slaughterhouse-five (I've read all of Vonnegut, but at this point that was actually ten years ago. It was a weird phase. So I can only remember about half of Vonnegut.)
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Fountainhead
The Grapes of Wrath
The Historian : a novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Rose (People keep telling me to read this one, and I really like Umberto Eco, I do! I just keep not reading it for some reason.)
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter (However, I was ten and now can't remember anything about the book.)
The Sound and the Fury
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (and I cannot fucking stand the music from the musical. I can't even listen to it.)
primavera . Here are the 106 most-unread books on LibraryThing (where I have an account under this name that I haven't updated since I moved out of the residence halls. I also created the Blue Ox Millworks LibraryThing to finally get all their stuff listed somewhere. Brag.)
Bold what you've read. Underline what you never finished. Italicize what you have but haven't read. In my case, if you see something underlined, it's been attempted multiple times. I do eventually read those books; for example, Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess took me about five years to read, but I did it! And I don't own the majority of these books. Mostly, I check them out of the library.
In other book news, I signed up for the Penguin Blog-A-Classic Challenge. Penguin will send you a free book if you manage to get in when they're open for submissions. They choose the book. I'll be reading and reporting on "Of Jaguars and Electric Eels" by Alexander von Humboldt. I think it's about his adventures in Brazil?
1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Anna Karenina
Beloved
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Jane Eyre
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales (Actually, only in translation. I feel like that's cheating.)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit (I had this read to me. I keep trying to read it now and get about six pages in and just can't continue.)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (I bought a secondhand copy with a terrible cover illustration. It was held together with a rubber band and cost 34 cents. I stayed up all night to finish it in one go!)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Prince
The Silmarillion
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Life of Pi : a novel
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons (I won't read anything by Dan Brown and you can't make me)
Atlas Shrugged
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Les Misérables (only the abridged)
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Slaughterhouse-five (I've read all of Vonnegut, but at this point that was actually ten years ago. It was a weird phase. So I can only remember about half of Vonnegut.)
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Fountainhead
The Grapes of Wrath
The Historian : a novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Rose (People keep telling me to read this one, and I really like Umberto Eco, I do! I just keep not reading it for some reason.)
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter (However, I was ten and now can't remember anything about the book.)
The Sound and the Fury
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (and I cannot fucking stand the music from the musical. I can't even listen to it.)