Dec 06, 2008 01:33
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 10/2/07). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those 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.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi : a novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. The Odyssey
14. Pride and Prejudice
15. Jane Eyre*
16. A Tale of Two Cities
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
19. War and Peace
20. Vanity Fair
21. The Time Traveler's Wife
22. The Iliad
23. Emma
24. The Blind Assassin
25. The Kite Runner
26. Mrs. Dalloway
27. Great Expectations
28. American Gods
29. Atlas Shrugged
30. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
31. Memoirs of a Geisha
32. Middlesex
33. Quicksilver
34. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
35. The Canterbury Tales
36. The Historian : a novel
37. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
38. Love in the Time of Cholera
39. Brave New World *
40. The Fountainhead
42. Foucault's Pendulum
43. Middlemarch
44. Frankenstein
45. The Count of Monte Cristo
46. Dracula
47. A Clockwork Orange
48. Anansi Boys
49. The Once and Future King
50. The Grapes of Wrath
51. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
52. 1984
53. Angels & Demons
54. The Inferno
55. The Satanic Verses
56. Sense and Sensibility
57. The Picture of Dorian Gray
58. Mansfield Park
59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
60. To the Lighthouse
61. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
62. Oliver Twist
63. Gulliver's Travels
64. Les Misérables
65. The Corrections
66. The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
67. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
68. Dune
69. The Prince
70. The Sound and the Fury
71. Angela's Ashes : A Memoir
72. The God of Small Things
73. A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
74. Cryptonomicon
75. Neverwhere
76. A Confederacy of Dunces
77. A Short History of Nearly Everything
78. Dubliners
79. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
80. Beloved
81. Slaughterhouse-Five
82. The Scarlet Letter
83. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
84. The Mists of Avalon
85. Oryx and Crake : a novel
86. Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
87. Cloud Atlas
88. The Confusion
89. Lolita
90. Persuasion
91. Northanger Abbey
92. The Catcher in the Rye
93. On the Road
94.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
95. Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
96. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
97. The Aeneid
98. Watership Down
99. Gravity's Rainbow
100. The Hobbit*
101. White Teeth
102. Treasure Island
103. David Copperfield
104. The Three Musketeers