more current: haven't read yet
It's been a while since I did this...I've been reading more lately since there is no boy to keep me company in bed now. :,(
These are the top 200 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize that 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.
I also put a smiley next to my favorites.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment* :)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Wuthering Heights
6. The Silmarillion
7. Catch-22
8. War and Peace
9. Ulysses
10. The Brothers Karamazov
11. The Kite Runner :)
12. The Odyssey
13. Jane Eyre
14. The Iliad
15. Don Quixote
16. Madame Bovary
17. Life of Pi
18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. Moby Dick; or, The Whale
20. Pride and Prejudice
21. Vanity Fair
22. Love in The Time of Cholera )
23. The Historian
24. The Name of the Rose
25. The Canterbury Tales
26. Emma
27. Dracula
28. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
29. Sense and Sensibility
30. Guns, Germs and Steel
31. The Time Traveler's Wife
32. Foucault's Pendulum
33. The Count of Monte Cristo :)
34. Mansfield Park
35. The Grapes of Wrath
36. Gulliver's Travels
37. Middlesex :)
38. Middlemarch
39. Atlas Shrugged
40. Great Expectations
41. Brave New World* :)
42. Mrs Dalloway
43. The Blind Assassin
44. The Picture of Dorian Gray
45. The Poisonwood Bible
46. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
47. Inferno
48. Dune
49. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50. Memoirs of a Geisha
51. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
52. American Gods* :)
53. The Scarlet Letter
54. Slaughterhouse-Five* :)
55. Quicksilver
56. A Clockwork Orange
57. Anansi Boys
58. Nineteen Eighty-Four
59. The Three Musketeers
60. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
61. The Sound and the Fury
62. Les Misérables
63. Dubliners
64. Atonement
65. David Copperfield
66. To the Lighthouse
67. The Fountainhead
68. The Satanic Verses
69. Oliver Twist
70. Lolita* :)
71. Persuasion
72. The Once and Future King
73. The Corrections
74. On the Road
75. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
76. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
77. A Short History of Nearly Everything
78. Cryptonomicon
79. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* :)
80. A Farewell to Arms
81. Robinson Crusoe
82. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
83. Lady Chatterley's Lover
84. The God of Small Things
85. Angela's Ashes
86. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
87. In Cold Blood
88. A Confederacy of Dunces
89. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
90. The Idiot
91. Oryx and Crake
92. The Prince
93. Treasure Island
94. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
95. Watership Down
96. The Plague
97. Sophie's World
98. The Catcher in the Rye
99. The Book Thief
100. The Aeneid
101. The Road
102. The Golden Compass
103. Sons and Lovers
104. The Mists of Avalon
105. Tender is the Night: A Romance
106. On the origin of species
107. Fahrenheit 451
108. Northanger Abbey
109. Doctor Zhivago
110. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
111. Midnight's Children
112. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
113. The Two Towers
114. The Return of the King
115. Gravity's Rainbow
116. Little Women
117. Angels & Demons
118. The Confusion
119. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
120. Possession
121. The Handmaid’s Tale
122. Beloved
123. The Alchemist
124. Neverwhere
125. The War of the Worlds
126. The Bell Jar
127. The Divine Comedy
128. The House of the Seven Gables
129. Alias Grace
130. Underworld
131. Uncle Tom's cabin
132. The Trial
133. Good Omens
134. Cold Mountain
135. House of Leaves
136. The Shadow of the Wind
137. The Fellowship of the Ring
138. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
139. Portrait of a Lady
140. Tom Jones
141. Never Let Me Go)
142. The Last of the Mohicans
143. East of Eden
144. The English Patient
145. Infinite Jest
146. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
147. The Amber Spyglass
148. White Teeth
149. Jude the Obscure
150. The Great Gatsby
151. Ivanhoe
152. Freakonomics
153. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at…
154. To Kill A Mockingbird*
155. Candide*
156. The Lovely Bones
157. Everything Is Illuminated* :)
158. Bleak House
159. A Brief History of Time
160. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
161. Baudolino
162. The Master and Margarita
163. The Eyre Affair
164. The Age of Innocence
165. A Prayer for Owen Meany
166. Siddhartha
167. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
168. As I Lay Dying
169. The Republic
170. The Hours
171. A Passage to India
172. The Phantom of the Opera
173. The Secret Life of Bees
174. The Yiddish Policemen's Union )
175. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
176. Silas Marner
177. The World is Flat
178. For Whom the Bell Tolls
179. The Stranger
180. Cloud atlas
181. Invisible Man
182. The System of the World
183. The Jungle
184. The Bonesetter's Daughter
185. Naked Lunch
186. The Thirteenth Tale
187. Eragon
188. The Mill on the Floss
189. Lord Jim
190. The Elegant Universe
191. The Gunslinger* :)
192. The Da Vinci Code
193. The Remains of the Day
194. A Game of Thrones
195. Neuromancer
196. The Plot Against America
197. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
198. Empire Falls
199. Gone With the Wind
200. The Art of War
These are the top 200 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize that 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.
I also put a smiley next to my favorites.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment* :)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Wuthering Heights
6. The Silmarillion
7. Catch-22
8. War and Peace
9. Ulysses
10. The Brothers Karamazov
11. The Kite Runner :)
12. The Odyssey
13. Jane Eyre
14. The Iliad
15. Don Quixote
16. Madame Bovary
17. Life of Pi
18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. Moby Dick; or, The Whale
20. Pride and Prejudice
21. Vanity Fair
22. Love in The Time of Cholera )
23. The Historian
24. The Name of the Rose
25. The Canterbury Tales
26. Emma
27. Dracula
28. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
29. Sense and Sensibility
30. Guns, Germs and Steel
31. The Time Traveler's Wife
32. Foucault's Pendulum
33. The Count of Monte Cristo :)
34. Mansfield Park
35. The Grapes of Wrath
36. Gulliver's Travels
37. Middlesex :)
38. Middlemarch
39. Atlas Shrugged
40. Great Expectations
41. Brave New World* :)
42. Mrs Dalloway
43. The Blind Assassin
44. The Picture of Dorian Gray
45. The Poisonwood Bible
46. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
47. Inferno
48. Dune
49. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50. Memoirs of a Geisha
51. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
52. American Gods* :)
53. The Scarlet Letter
54. Slaughterhouse-Five* :)
55. Quicksilver
56. A Clockwork Orange
57. Anansi Boys
58. Nineteen Eighty-Four
59. The Three Musketeers
60. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
61. The Sound and the Fury
62. Les Misérables
63. Dubliners
64. Atonement
65. David Copperfield
66. To the Lighthouse
67. The Fountainhead
68. The Satanic Verses
69. Oliver Twist
70. Lolita* :)
71. Persuasion
72. The Once and Future King
73. The Corrections
74. On the Road
75. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
76. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
77. A Short History of Nearly Everything
78. Cryptonomicon
79. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* :)
80. A Farewell to Arms
81. Robinson Crusoe
82. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
83. Lady Chatterley's Lover
84. The God of Small Things
85. Angela's Ashes
86. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
87. In Cold Blood
88. A Confederacy of Dunces
89. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
90. The Idiot
91. Oryx and Crake
92. The Prince
93. Treasure Island
94. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
95. Watership Down
96. The Plague
97. Sophie's World
98. The Catcher in the Rye
99. The Book Thief
100. The Aeneid
101. The Road
102. The Golden Compass
103. Sons and Lovers
104. The Mists of Avalon
105. Tender is the Night: A Romance
106. On the origin of species
107. Fahrenheit 451
108. Northanger Abbey
109. Doctor Zhivago
110. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
111. Midnight's Children
112. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
113. The Two Towers
114. The Return of the King
115. Gravity's Rainbow
116. Little Women
117. Angels & Demons
118. The Confusion
119. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
120. Possession
121. The Handmaid’s Tale
122. Beloved
123. The Alchemist
124. Neverwhere
125. The War of the Worlds
126. The Bell Jar
127. The Divine Comedy
128. The House of the Seven Gables
129. Alias Grace
130. Underworld
131. Uncle Tom's cabin
132. The Trial
133. Good Omens
134. Cold Mountain
135. House of Leaves
136. The Shadow of the Wind
137. The Fellowship of the Ring
138. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
139. Portrait of a Lady
140. Tom Jones
141. Never Let Me Go)
142. The Last of the Mohicans
143. East of Eden
144. The English Patient
145. Infinite Jest
146. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
147. The Amber Spyglass
148. White Teeth
149. Jude the Obscure
150. The Great Gatsby
151. Ivanhoe
152. Freakonomics
153. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at…
154. To Kill A Mockingbird*
155. Candide*
156. The Lovely Bones
157. Everything Is Illuminated* :)
158. Bleak House
159. A Brief History of Time
160. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
161. Baudolino
162. The Master and Margarita
163. The Eyre Affair
164. The Age of Innocence
165. A Prayer for Owen Meany
166. Siddhartha
167. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
168. As I Lay Dying
169. The Republic
170. The Hours
171. A Passage to India
172. The Phantom of the Opera
173. The Secret Life of Bees
174. The Yiddish Policemen's Union )
175. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
176. Silas Marner
177. The World is Flat
178. For Whom the Bell Tolls
179. The Stranger
180. Cloud atlas
181. Invisible Man
182. The System of the World
183. The Jungle
184. The Bonesetter's Daughter
185. Naked Lunch
186. The Thirteenth Tale
187. Eragon
188. The Mill on the Floss
189. Lord Jim
190. The Elegant Universe
191. The Gunslinger* :)
192. The Da Vinci Code
193. The Remains of the Day
194. A Game of Thrones
195. Neuromancer
196. The Plot Against America
197. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
198. Empire Falls
199. Gone With the Wind
200. The Art of War