this meme will probably prove that i was a bad english major.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. One star for the ones you've read, ^ for the ones you read for school, :( the ones you started but didn't finish, and a $ for ones you own but haven't read (I changed the symbols from yours, Kerry, because the stars looked confusing to me, ha ha... oh, and I am adding a category). ! for the ones that you studied for the lit GRE and know everything surface about but have not *actually* read (plot, characters, major themes, etc)
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
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner *
Mrs. Dalloway *
Great Expectations !
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
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
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange ^
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
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
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
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
Collapse
Cloud Atlas *
The Confusion
Lolita ^
Persuasion !
Northanger Abbey !
The Catcher in the Rye ^
On the Road ^ :(
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
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 !
so, yes, i was a bad english major. i have a more cliff's notes knowledge of important literature in history.
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
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner *
Mrs. Dalloway *
Great Expectations !
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
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
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange ^
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
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
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
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
Collapse
Cloud Atlas *
The Confusion
Lolita ^
Persuasion !
Northanger Abbey !
The Catcher in the Rye ^
On the Road ^ :(
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
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 !
so, yes, i was a bad english major. i have a more cliff's notes knowledge of important literature in history.