A meme doesn't count as a meme if it's a book meme... does it?
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.
[My comment: what do they mean, the top 106 books often marked as "unread"? I presume it's something to do with what you own and haven't read, as opposed to the top 106 books that nobody's never read. Or something. So I'm marking the books I do own with an asterisk, as well - there's plenty on the list I haven't read, but most of it I don't own either...]
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
*Anna Karenina
*Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Wuthering Heights
*The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi
*The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
*The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
*Mrs. Dalloway [my mother gave me a copy of this but I can't find it to read it!]
*Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [who is this even by??]
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
*Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
*Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
*Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
*The Count of Monte Cristo [I have this as an e-book and am meaning to read it sometime...]
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys [It occurs to me that Lee owns this, perhaps I should read it]
*The Once and Future King [OMG my favourite book of all time!!!]
The Grapes of Wrath
*The Poisonwood Bible
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
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
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
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere [I just read this on Saturday! And watched the TV series. Apparently they're making it into a movie...]
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation !!!!! ;P
*The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
There's a few books on here that I've never even heard of, which probably speaks volumes about my lack of literary education. Still, it's given me some good ideas for what to read next!
Unrelated to this meme: my shoulder hurts. :(
[My comment: what do they mean, the top 106 books often marked as "unread"? I presume it's something to do with what you own and haven't read, as opposed to the top 106 books that nobody's never read. Or something. So I'm marking the books I do own with an asterisk, as well - there's plenty on the list I haven't read, but most of it I don't own either...]
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
*Anna Karenina
*Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Wuthering Heights
*The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi
*The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
*The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
*Mrs. Dalloway [my mother gave me a copy of this but I can't find it to read it!]
*Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [who is this even by??]
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
*Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
*Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
*Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
*The Count of Monte Cristo [I have this as an e-book and am meaning to read it sometime...]
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys [It occurs to me that Lee owns this, perhaps I should read it]
*The Once and Future King [OMG my favourite book of all time!!!]
The Grapes of Wrath
*The Poisonwood Bible
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
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
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
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere [I just read this on Saturday! And watched the TV series. Apparently they're making it into a movie...]
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation !!!!! ;P
*The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
There's a few books on here that I've never even heard of, which probably speaks volumes about my lack of literary education. Still, it's given me some good ideas for what to read next!
Unrelated to this meme: my shoulder hurts. :(