Because I'm making time... meme time!
Stolen from Kat8tcha:
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. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91) <--I really want to read this one!! Damn Eco, so expensive ^^;;
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) <--Lack of time, lack of time
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62) <--I hate García Márquez
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) <--I really liked it, but didn't had enough time to finish it!!
The Poisonwood Bible (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51) <--I love Faulkner
Angela's Ashes(51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50) <--I have it, but haven't read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46) <--I want this one
On the Road (46) <--This one too
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
Total: 11 ^///^ shame on me!!
Disclaimer: Too bad the meme list stops on 109, because I've read:
108. Robinson Crusoe,
112. Beowulf (Grendel!!!)
121. Little women
164. Uncle Tom's cabin
179. The last of the mohicans
198. East of Eden <--Well, I DO like Steinbeck
201. The Decameron
217. Ivanhoe
233. As I lay dying
245. The joy luck club
256. Walden
264. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
269. HP and the Sorcerer's stone
316. The little prince
And the complete list is really long, and I don't think I have read much of them.
I've heard a lot about many of the ones listed. The trouble in here are the translations, most of them have awful translations and getting books in english is really hard. (And I'm that picky wanting to read Faulkner in english, for example).
On the other hand, my English and North American Literature courses SUCKED, since the major were for Latin American literature. If I had picked the English major, maybe I've done better, but who knows :?
We chose our battles with the list of books, because we had only ONE semester to cover 200 years of spanish literature, one semester for 100 years of Mexican literature, one semester for 200 years of Latin American literature, for example.
And now I read less than at college. We used to read like 40 books per semester and now I'm lucky if I read 3 ::facepalms::
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. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91) <--I really want to read this one!! Damn Eco, so expensive ^^;;
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) <--Lack of time, lack of time
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62) <--I hate García Márquez
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) <--I really liked it, but didn't had enough time to finish it!!
The Poisonwood Bible (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51) <--I love Faulkner
Angela's Ashes(51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50) <--I have it, but haven't read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46) <--I want this one
On the Road (46) <--This one too
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
Total: 11 ^///^ shame on me!!
Disclaimer: Too bad the meme list stops on 109, because I've read:
108. Robinson Crusoe,
112. Beowulf (Grendel!!!)
121. Little women
164. Uncle Tom's cabin
179. The last of the mohicans
198. East of Eden <--Well, I DO like Steinbeck
201. The Decameron
217. Ivanhoe
233. As I lay dying
245. The joy luck club
256. Walden
264. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
269. HP and the Sorcerer's stone
316. The little prince
And the complete list is really long, and I don't think I have read much of them.
I've heard a lot about many of the ones listed. The trouble in here are the translations, most of them have awful translations and getting books in english is really hard. (And I'm that picky wanting to read Faulkner in english, for example).
On the other hand, my English and North American Literature courses SUCKED, since the major were for Latin American literature. If I had picked the English major, maybe I've done better, but who knows :?
We chose our battles with the list of books, because we had only ONE semester to cover 200 years of spanish literature, one semester for 100 years of Mexican literature, one semester for 200 years of Latin American literature, for example.
And now I read less than at college. We used to read like 40 books per semester and now I'm lucky if I read 3 ::facepalms::