We're walking through a world of beauty and delight...
I wish I could live in a world that was made up entirely of lilac flowers, where it rained every day. Nothing can possibly smell better than a garden filled with lilac after a real downpour. Aaah *happy sigh*
These are the top 100 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today, 27 May 2008). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish(I don't do that - if I've picked something up I will damn well finish it too. Unless it's porn (see previous book-post)), 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
Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) (Oprah wants me to read it? then I don't think so)
One hundred years of solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights (because it's one of those books you should have read)
Catch-22
The Silmarillion (it hurts me a bit that I haven't gotten around to it yet. But this summer - I swear...)
Don Quixote (the concept fascinates me)
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of…
Moby Dick (sometime, in a galaxy far far away I'll read it. Promise)
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner (my friend gave me a summary of this - it didn't tempt me one bit)
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife (I have no idea what it is, but I love the title:D)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged (Again - the title sounds great)
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula (Being the vampire fangirl that I am, this was mandatory)
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and the Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
American Gods: A Novel (Gaiman = love)
Middlesex: A Novel
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray (I finished it like three days ago xD)
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses: A Novel
Mansfield Park JA
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections: A Novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange (So so dark, but still so fascinating)
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion JA
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Love the movie, will read the book eventuallt)
The Once and Future King (It has been on my to-read list forever, the title is just so good!)
Anansi Boys
Atonement: A Novel (I'll never ever pick this one up. The movie bored me - I don't wanna think about what the book is like)
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Read it as a school assignment, liked it enough to want to read the sequals too^^)
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The amber spyglass
The Prince
Watership Down
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (ooh shiney!)
The Aeneid
A Farewell To Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into…
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession: A Romance
The Book Thief
Tom Jones
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) (Again, Oprah? Don't think so)
Tender Is the Night
The War of the Worlds
Hmm that list included an awful lot of underlined titles...and not nearly enough bold names methinks :/ Oh well, I'll get to it...sometime in my next life perhaps
These are the top 100 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today, 27 May 2008). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish(I don't do that - if I've picked something up I will damn well finish it too. Unless it's porn (see previous book-post)), 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
Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) (Oprah wants me to read it? then I don't think so)
One hundred years of solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights (because it's one of those books you should have read)
Catch-22
The Silmarillion (it hurts me a bit that I haven't gotten around to it yet. But this summer - I swear...)
Don Quixote (the concept fascinates me)
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of…
Moby Dick (sometime, in a galaxy far far away I'll read it. Promise)
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner (my friend gave me a summary of this - it didn't tempt me one bit)
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife (I have no idea what it is, but I love the title:D)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged (Again - the title sounds great)
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula (Being the vampire fangirl that I am, this was mandatory)
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and the Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
American Gods: A Novel (Gaiman = love)
Middlesex: A Novel
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray (I finished it like three days ago xD)
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses: A Novel
Mansfield Park JA
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections: A Novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange (So so dark, but still so fascinating)
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion JA
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Love the movie, will read the book eventuallt)
The Once and Future King (It has been on my to-read list forever, the title is just so good!)
Anansi Boys
Atonement: A Novel (I'll never ever pick this one up. The movie bored me - I don't wanna think about what the book is like)
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Read it as a school assignment, liked it enough to want to read the sequals too^^)
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The amber spyglass
The Prince
Watership Down
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (ooh shiney!)
The Aeneid
A Farewell To Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into…
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession: A Romance
The Book Thief
Tom Jones
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) (Again, Oprah? Don't think so)
Tender Is the Night
The War of the Worlds
Hmm that list included an awful lot of underlined titles...and not nearly enough bold names methinks :/ Oh well, I'll get to it...sometime in my next life perhaps