Book meme, book meme, party time, excellent
From fraoch, apparently, via samanthas:
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (nearly italicised until I remembered I have now finished it)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose - I've seen the film ;)
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
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
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
Middlesex That's the one with the tulip?
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West Like samanthas, I plan on finishing this one too...
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel Liked it much more than either Sam or benethyarr did
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World mmm, Soma.
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys - Next book club book!!
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 Grey
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Eh?
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 Excellent, much better than the series
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved We read bits of it in school;)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves A classic of pedantry.
The Mists of Avalon - I've read several of MZB's Darkover books, though.
Oryx and Crake: a novel Dear Ms. Atwood: You are not as clever as you think you are, plus you do write science fiction, you snob.
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas It's Sam's copy, actually. Must finish that.
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road Not, I would argue, crap. But as grampus said the other day, it does require you to be in a certain frame of mind.
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 Finished this waiting for a plane in St Etienne airport, all the time wondering that it was theoretically for children.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (nearly italicised until I remembered I have now finished it)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose - I've seen the film ;)
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
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
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
Middlesex That's the one with the tulip?
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West Like samanthas, I plan on finishing this one too...
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel Liked it much more than either Sam or benethyarr did
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World mmm, Soma.
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys - Next book club book!!
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 Grey
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Eh?
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 Excellent, much better than the series
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved We read bits of it in school;)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves A classic of pedantry.
The Mists of Avalon - I've read several of MZB's Darkover books, though.
Oryx and Crake: a novel Dear Ms. Atwood: You are not as clever as you think you are, plus you do write science fiction, you snob.
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas It's Sam's copy, actually. Must finish that.
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road Not, I would argue, crap. But as grampus said the other day, it does require you to be in a certain frame of mind.
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 Finished this waiting for a plane in St Etienne airport, all the time wondering that it was theoretically for children.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers