Book Meme!
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 10/2/07). 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*
Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose*
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses* (Gotten through the whole thing once. Read various pieces multiple times)
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov* (only got partway through in Russian but read all in English)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (Started it at my mother's house and left it there. Damn it!)
War and Peace* (Part in Russian, twice in English. It's a good book, okay?)
Vanity Fair (Finished this tonight after deciding suddenly "I must read this!" for no apparent reason last week.)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway*
Great Expectations
American Gods*
Atlas Shrugged (Proudly failed to get through it. Proudly.)
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 (I went through a phase of picking up books by Ayn Rand, reading 20 pages, then throwing them at things. It was fun.)
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 : 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*
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels (I read the whole book I had, but I think it was an abridged kids' version)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Read part at someone's house but never borrowed it.)
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
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*
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 : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down* (first when I was six, for some reason. I think because I liked book about bunnies.)
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
The obvious and shameful dearth is Jane Austen. I read her too young at first, and didn't start again until recently. I promise all good people, I'm making up for lost time. The funny thing about the rest of it is that most of the ones I've read, I either read before high school (or early high school) or after college. Apparently my education left no time for reading classic works of literature.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*
Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose*
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses* (Gotten through the whole thing once. Read various pieces multiple times)
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov* (only got partway through in Russian but read all in English)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (Started it at my mother's house and left it there. Damn it!)
War and Peace* (Part in Russian, twice in English. It's a good book, okay?)
Vanity Fair (Finished this tonight after deciding suddenly "I must read this!" for no apparent reason last week.)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway*
Great Expectations
American Gods*
Atlas Shrugged (Proudly failed to get through it. Proudly.)
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 (I went through a phase of picking up books by Ayn Rand, reading 20 pages, then throwing them at things. It was fun.)
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 : 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*
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels (I read the whole book I had, but I think it was an abridged kids' version)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Read part at someone's house but never borrowed it.)
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
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*
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 : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down* (first when I was six, for some reason. I think because I liked book about bunnies.)
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
The obvious and shameful dearth is Jane Austen. I read her too young at first, and didn't start again until recently. I promise all good people, I'm making up for lost time. The funny thing about the rest of it is that most of the ones I've read, I either read before high school (or early high school) or after college. Apparently my education left no time for reading classic works of literature.