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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. bold what you have read, italicize what you started, but couldn’t finish/didn't finish yet, 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 (Sounds kind of interesting)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (More in that kind of "Maybe I should try it at some point..." category)
Catch-22* (One of my favouritest books of all time, ever)
One Hundred Years of Solitude* (Except perhaps for this one)
Wuthering Heights (I feel compelled to link to this)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (Only read a bit. Easily distracted.)
Moby Dick
Ulysses (Erm... Can't remember if it was this or Finnegan's Wake I started but didn't finish...)
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey (My education was sadly devoid of Classics... Must rectify...)
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (Read Dickens? For any reason other than being forced to? I think not...)
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha* (S'alright, not the best thing ever. Reread because the book happened to be around when I needed something to read.)
Middlesex (I was born there, does that count?)
Quicksilver
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Sounds like it could be fun. And after all, aren't we all friends of Dorothy deep down in our hearts?)
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (I've never entirely decided whether I like the owd bastid or not...)
Love in the Time of Cholera (I love Marquez, but for some reason never finished this one. Not because it isn't good, just because... I 've always been distracted. (Yes, I do have a short.... err... Shinies!))
Brave New World* (Did my long essay at A-Level on this and Frankenstein, a kind of feminist critique.)
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum (It sounds kind of interesting, yet its reputation has always put me off starting)
Middlemarch
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus* (See Brave New World)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Whilst being an awesome story, it doesn't quite have the punch of the 3 Musketeers. Again, got distracted.)
Dracula* (Anyone going near the "G" word can suck down on my fist, k?)
A Clockwork Orange*
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest* (Both, because it took me about four attempts to get into it. Liked it a lot though. Then did it for A-Level)
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels (I think I've read it all the way through...)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune (I will, at some point, when I have the time, put an * next to that)
The Prince (I've dipped into it, never exactly sat down and read it cover-to-cover)
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* (A-Levels again)
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* (Yup, if stuck on a desert island, this, Catch-22 and 100 Years of Solitude would see me through)
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye* (Sadly left my old copy of it on a plane to Mexico, somewhat bloodstained)
On the Road (Didn't really go anywhere. Ironic, n'est pas?)
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 (See The Odyssey)
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (Agaion, as with OFOTCN, took me several attempts until I finally got through it. This, however, wasn't really worth the perseverance)
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island* (Yarr, pirates. Etc.)
David Copperfield