Interesting book meme
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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 that 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 - *augh* I so don't get why people like this book.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick - greatest novel written in English in the 19th c.
Ulysses - just too much for me and my leetle brain
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - Austen is great fun
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov - I so should have read this book already
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace - this was supposed to be my big post-BA project, but I never finished. Would like to.
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway - I doubt I'll ever finish it
Great Expectations - read it for ENG something or other at Knox
American Gods - I don't get the Gaiman thing
Atlas Shrugged - Ugh. Rand.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - I love the language of Chaucer -- need to make time to read this
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 - *love* Eco
Middlemarch - pisica told me I could skip this one, but I'd like to read it someday
Frankenstein - FP, am I right?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath - Not a huge Steinbeck fan
The Poisonwood Bible
1984 - I can't believe so many people haven't read this book. Although it was better when Zamyatin wrote it.
Angels & Demons
The Inferno - again, how have people not read this?
The Satanic Verses - I like a lot of Rushdie's other stuff
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray - started it as a kid, don't think I ever finished it
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels - Good, but I never came back to it.
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - GREAT, didn't so much care for the first sequel
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury - Would like to finish someday
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things - pretty enh
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present - how have *I* not read this book?
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces - read like four pages
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera is ponderous and boring IMHO -- there are way better West Slavic writers
Beloved
Slaughterhouse 5
The Scarlet Letter - another Regalis special
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - this woman is obnoxious, as most language mavens are
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita* - Nabokov is wonderful, except when he's being a snotty and bad translator
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye* - I *love* Franny and Zooey, but after reading Catcher twice, I don't get what the big deal is
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* - Another book Martha Regalis taught me to love
Watership Down
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
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 that 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 - *augh* I so don't get why people like this book.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick - greatest novel written in English in the 19th c.
Ulysses - just too much for me and my leetle brain
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - Austen is great fun
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov - I so should have read this book already
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace - this was supposed to be my big post-BA project, but I never finished. Would like to.
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway - I doubt I'll ever finish it
Great Expectations - read it for ENG something or other at Knox
American Gods - I don't get the Gaiman thing
Atlas Shrugged - Ugh. Rand.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - I love the language of Chaucer -- need to make time to read this
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 - *love* Eco
Middlemarch - pisica told me I could skip this one, but I'd like to read it someday
Frankenstein - FP, am I right?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath - Not a huge Steinbeck fan
The Poisonwood Bible
1984 - I can't believe so many people haven't read this book. Although it was better when Zamyatin wrote it.
Angels & Demons
The Inferno - again, how have people not read this?
The Satanic Verses - I like a lot of Rushdie's other stuff
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray - started it as a kid, don't think I ever finished it
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels - Good, but I never came back to it.
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - GREAT, didn't so much care for the first sequel
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury - Would like to finish someday
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things - pretty enh
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present - how have *I* not read this book?
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces - read like four pages
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera is ponderous and boring IMHO -- there are way better West Slavic writers
Beloved
Slaughterhouse 5
The Scarlet Letter - another Regalis special
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - this woman is obnoxious, as most language mavens are
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita* - Nabokov is wonderful, except when he's being a snotty and bad translator
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye* - I *love* Franny and Zooey, but after reading Catcher twice, I don't get what the big deal is
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* - Another book Martha Regalis taught me to love
Watership Down
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