this makes me feel a little better about being a crazy shut-in
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). 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 (again if necessary).
EDIT: Out of some sense of journalistic accuracy, radioronin has suggested we mark with two asterixes the titles we only read because school made us. That makes my total much less impressive.
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**
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
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations**
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged**
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
Foucault's Pendulum*
Middlemarch**
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Dracula*
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King %&^%!! (cartoon swearing in appreciation of my favorite book of all time)
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*
Les Misérables**
The Corrections
The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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*
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 (not in Latin)
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
White Teeth
Treasure Island*
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers*