Meme
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 those 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'm being a somewhat free with the asterisks deendig on my level of re-reading, cos I do re-read some books an awful lot.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*** I heart this book like crazy
Crime and Punishment I also heart this book but I don't think I could bear to read it again
Catch-22 Don't think I got more than a few pages in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion Couldn't get into the...lack of plot
Life of Pi : a novel Must get back to this one
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby-Dick Oh my God what a load of tripe interspersed with really interesting chapters. I mean... The Hull of a Ship Compared to the Skull of a Right Whale? What?
Ulysses Dunno if I'll get back to this one
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*Well, y'know, how could I not?
Jane Eyre*** I think I could recite this novel from memory
A Tale of Two Cities One of the few Dickens I don't like
The Brothers KaramazovI really would like to read the rest of this
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace* I've only read the non-war bits multple times though
Vanity Fair I can't believe I haven't read this
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind AssassinI only just started this, along with two other books, so I dunno if it counts as unread.
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations*
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch My mum will never forgive me if I don't get around to finishing this one
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula* I really love this book, strangely enough.
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984* Oh c'mon, who hasn't read this?
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses I kinda really liked what I read. Why did I stop?
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse Dunno why I didn't get into this. Must try again.
Tess of the D'UrbevillesAlmost as bad as Jude. Why must the characters be tortured? WHYYYY
Oliver Twist I love Dickens. I loath everything to do with Oliver Twist, be it book, movie, cartoon or play. Go figure.
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables Couldn't stand this one
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 : 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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being It's on my bookshelf, just waiting...
Beloved One of the other books I'm reading at the moment
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves I really should get this one, I'm sure I'd love it
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel I couldn't believe it when I hated a Margaret Atwood novel. I'm stil in shock
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita Again, on my shelf. Considering how much I adore Pale Fire, I should pick this one up.
Persuasion** Fave Austen. And that's saying something
Northanger Abbey Really, why have I not read this?
The Catcher in the Rye Can SOMEBODY explain to me why his book is supposed to be so damn good?
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: an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down** I love you Fiver.
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield*** Equal fave Dickens with Bleak House.
The Three Musketeers
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*** I heart this book like crazy
Crime and Punishment I also heart this book but I don't think I could bear to read it again
Catch-22 Don't think I got more than a few pages in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion Couldn't get into the...lack of plot
Life of Pi : a novel Must get back to this one
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby-Dick Oh my God what a load of tripe interspersed with really interesting chapters. I mean... The Hull of a Ship Compared to the Skull of a Right Whale? What?
Ulysses Dunno if I'll get back to this one
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*Well, y'know, how could I not?
Jane Eyre*** I think I could recite this novel from memory
A Tale of Two Cities One of the few Dickens I don't like
The Brothers KaramazovI really would like to read the rest of this
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace* I've only read the non-war bits multple times though
Vanity Fair I can't believe I haven't read this
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind AssassinI only just started this, along with two other books, so I dunno if it counts as unread.
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations*
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch My mum will never forgive me if I don't get around to finishing this one
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula* I really love this book, strangely enough.
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984* Oh c'mon, who hasn't read this?
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses I kinda really liked what I read. Why did I stop?
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse Dunno why I didn't get into this. Must try again.
Tess of the D'UrbevillesAlmost as bad as Jude. Why must the characters be tortured? WHYYYY
Oliver Twist I love Dickens. I loath everything to do with Oliver Twist, be it book, movie, cartoon or play. Go figure.
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables Couldn't stand this one
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 : 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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being It's on my bookshelf, just waiting...
Beloved One of the other books I'm reading at the moment
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves I really should get this one, I'm sure I'd love it
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel I couldn't believe it when I hated a Margaret Atwood novel. I'm stil in shock
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita Again, on my shelf. Considering how much I adore Pale Fire, I should pick this one up.
Persuasion** Fave Austen. And that's saying something
Northanger Abbey Really, why have I not read this?
The Catcher in the Rye Can SOMEBODY explain to me why his book is supposed to be so damn good?
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: an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down** I love you Fiver.
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield*** Equal fave Dickens with Bleak House.
The Three Musketeers