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As stolen from Wendy, here is the Book meme that is doing the rounds. However, since i put them all in at once, it's cut for your convenience...
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, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22 not cause i didn't like it, just got distracted....
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights - yawn! the book that never ends!
The Silmarillion - i have actively been warned against it...
Life of Pi : a novel thought it was excellent, still has me a little perplexed!
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary just not as scandalous as i thought it would be!
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner - i want to read this! also, the new film of it looks excellent!
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations
American gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha excellent book, film didn't do it justice
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 i'm trying mr joyce!
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world love love love it
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum comprehending it is hard!
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath recommend it
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 fantastic.
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 many times
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time odd style to read but worth it
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela's ashes : a memoirexcellent
The god of small things -it's staring at me accusingly from the bookcase
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything excerpts - it's long!
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 pretty sure i read it as well as having seen the film
Gravity's rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
that is all.
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, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22 not cause i didn't like it, just got distracted....
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights - yawn! the book that never ends!
The Silmarillion - i have actively been warned against it...
Life of Pi : a novel thought it was excellent, still has me a little perplexed!
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary just not as scandalous as i thought it would be!
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner - i want to read this! also, the new film of it looks excellent!
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations
American gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha excellent book, film didn't do it justice
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 i'm trying mr joyce!
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world love love love it
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum comprehending it is hard!
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath recommend it
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 fantastic.
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 many times
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time odd style to read but worth it
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela's ashes : a memoirexcellent
The god of small things -it's staring at me accusingly from the bookcase
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything excerpts - it's long!
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 pretty sure i read it as well as having seen the film
Gravity's rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
that is all.