My kind of meme. Stolen from Joelle.

Oct 03, 2007 23:13



book meme:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 9/30/07). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

  • Jonathan Strange & Mr 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
  • 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 traveler's wife
  • The Iliad
  • Emma
  • The Blind Assassin
  • The kite runner
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Great expectations (Couldn't stand it at the time, but looking back I think it may have had to do with its poor treatment in the class I was reading it for)
  • American gods
  • A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  • Atlas shrugged
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Middlesex
  • Quicksilver
  • Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
  • The Canterbury tales
  • The historian : a novel
  • 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 : a novel
  • 1984
  • Angels and 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  (I have vague memories of reading bits of this)
  • Les misérables (I think we had to read a bit in French class)
  • 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 : a memoir
  • 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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
  • The mists of Avalon (I have tried soooo many times to finish this.  I get a little closer each time.)
  • 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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
  • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
  • The Aeneid
  • Watership Down (At least, I'm pretty sure I read it once upon a time)
  • Gravity's rainbow
  • The Hobbit
  • In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
  • White teeth
  • Treasure Island
  • David Copperfield
  • The three musketeers



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