Book Meme
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today, 30 September 2007). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Started reading it several times, I just have never had TIME to read it all.)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights(wanna read some of the classics...)
The Silmarillion (Tolkien rules. I'll get to it...eventually)
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (WINDMILLS LOL!!)
Moby Dick (ugh....I cou'dn't get past that chapter that talked about the gruel they were eating...or what ever it was...)
Ulysses (sounds interesting...wil go on my to do list...)
Madame Bovary
*The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice (eventually....)
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 (the only Dickens I could read and...you know...liked...)
American Gods (once again, started it and never had the time...)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (GAH! the length of this was just sickening.)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha (read it...found it kind of dull. A good book but...)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (read a bit of Kris' copy...interesting...)
*The Canterbury Tales (Moar Wife of Bath!!)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (I fell asleep)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead (Length!! GAH!)
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (I liked the black and white movie more.)
The Count of Monte Cristo
*Dracula (Vampires. Over rated but a great book. Much better than the movies. Except for 'dead and Loving it')
A Clockwork Orange (Freaking awesome movie.)
Anansi Boys (Gaiman! why can't I get through your books!)
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinback *shakes fist*)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 (Big Brother is Always Watching)
Angels & Demons (Meah, Dan Brown...)
*The Inferno (Hellz yeah)
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
Les Misérables (Needs moar singing.)
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 (St. Gaiman....)
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 Mists of Avalon
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
Gravity's Rainbow
*****The Hobbit (Better than the Lord of the Rings)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
*Treasure Island (Yhear!)
David Copperfield (I hate that book....)
The Three Musketeers
Bastard out of Carolina