Because it seemed fun. (^_^) Borrowed *cough* Stolen *cough* from
caramelapples11. Hehe. I love books.
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.
1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Anna Karenina
Beloved
Brave New World - Skinner Box
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
-Emma
-Frankenstein
-Great Expectations
-Gulliver’s Travels
-In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Jane Eyre
Lolita
-Love in the Time of Cholera- This title has me intrigued...
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha- This book... It's storytelling... Well, I'll just leave it at the fact that it entirely envelops you in a separate world. It's own world.
Middlemarch
-Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
-Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
-Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
-Sense and Sensibility
-Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales- Reads bits and pieces of this for English (once again.)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- This book is utterly fascinating, amazing in its style, and fun in syntax.
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Silmarillion
-The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down
Wuthering Heights- For some reason the characters of this book irritate me... so... much with maybe the exception of three or four, but most of the main characters? I found them horrendously irritating even if fascinating.
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
-Life of Pi : a novel
The Brothers Karamazov
-The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons
Atlas Shrugged
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
-Don Quixote- LOL! We read a comic book version of this in my high school Spanish class.
Dubliners
-Dune- I'm really intrigued by this series... Maybe when I have time... My list of books to read is beyond reasonable length.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - The Oxford comma matters
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - I need to pick this book up.
-Les Misérables
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Slaughterhouse-five
-The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo- I Love this book... unbelievably so. The main character just captivated me.
The Fountainhead
The Grapes of Wrath
The Historian : a novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
!!!-The Kite Runner
-The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses
-The Scarlet Letter (Though we studied it in my English class; I don't get how we studied it without reading it either.)
The Sound and the Fury
-The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
-Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Basically, everything italicised are books that I started during the school year before I got flooded with work (some are left over from high school) that I need to get back to and read... and because I'm intrigued by this list everthing else with dashes? I need to read. (^_^) It's sort of funny, because I own most of the ones I've dashed. LOL!