From bobafet
Despite having more work than I can shake a stick at, I'm doing this meme.
Because I like books.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users (as of today-ish). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
For me, *'s are books I intend to read-not on some future date, but pretty much as soon as I feel in the mood. I can also refer back to this and add the *'s to my To Read table.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
*Crime and Punishment (121)
*Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : A Novel (94)
*The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83) - Multiple, multiple times
Jane Eyre (80)
*A Tale of Two Cities (80)
*The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
*The Kite Runner (71)
*Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
*Atlas Shrugged (67)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64) - not saying completed because I read excerpts in high school, college
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61) - I rather intend to re-read this, I read it in high school and don't particularly remember
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault’s Pendulum (61)
*Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
*The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57) (in all fairness, I stopped reading because my copy was missing pages)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56) - I'm assuming this is Dante
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) - I will eventually read this, as it's the last complete Jane Austen book I haven't read. I started it in my early days of reading her and found it boring; now I'm just saving it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (54) - Hardy's too depressing.
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver’s Travels (53) - in high school, so I don't remember much
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
*The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) - this is high on my list to read shortly
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48) - another high school one, but I loved it. I should do a re-read.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47) - bored the crap out of me. I think I was on my way out of feminist fantasy at that point
Oryx and Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46) - Multiple, multiple times.
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46) - in high school, and I actually intend a re-read.
On the Road (46)
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
*Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
*Gravity’s Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (44)
*White Teeth (44) - jleigh672 loaned this to me years ago. I do intend to read it!
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
Because I like books.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users (as of today-ish). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
For me, *'s are books I intend to read-not on some future date, but pretty much as soon as I feel in the mood. I can also refer back to this and add the *'s to my To Read table.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
*Crime and Punishment (121)
*Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : A Novel (94)
*The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83) - Multiple, multiple times
Jane Eyre (80)
*A Tale of Two Cities (80)
*The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
*The Kite Runner (71)
*Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
*Atlas Shrugged (67)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64) - not saying completed because I read excerpts in high school, college
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61) - I rather intend to re-read this, I read it in high school and don't particularly remember
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault’s Pendulum (61)
*Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
*The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57) (in all fairness, I stopped reading because my copy was missing pages)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56) - I'm assuming this is Dante
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) - I will eventually read this, as it's the last complete Jane Austen book I haven't read. I started it in my early days of reading her and found it boring; now I'm just saving it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (54) - Hardy's too depressing.
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver’s Travels (53) - in high school, so I don't remember much
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
*The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) - this is high on my list to read shortly
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48) - another high school one, but I loved it. I should do a re-read.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47) - bored the crap out of me. I think I was on my way out of feminist fantasy at that point
Oryx and Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46) - Multiple, multiple times.
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46) - in high school, and I actually intend a re-read.
On the Road (46)
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
*Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
*Gravity’s Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (44)
*White Teeth (44) - jleigh672 loaned this to me years ago. I do intend to read it!
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)