Literariness.

[passingwindows]

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, 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.

TOTALS- read (57)
halfway through

Comments

[sophonica]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion[Sorry Tolkien]
Life of Pi*
The Name of the Rose*
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
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
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
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*
Middlemarch
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984*
Angels & Demons[I died inside]
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
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere[Sorry Neil]
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
Beloved
Slaughterhouse 5
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: I loathe Margaret Atwood.
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
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

Totals:
Read - 79
Hated (and finished) - 9
Hated (and didn't finish) - 3
Unread - 23

I only have 105 books here - did I miss one?

(This is rather fun, though I must point out that this list is probably fairly similar to the 'most read' list. These are all books that are very high-profile in popular fiction/classics). But hooray for LibraryThing!)

Also: BEATING AUSTRALIA AT RUGBY = AWESOME: Y/N?

[passingwindows]

I forgot to strikethrough the ones I hated. My goodness, I hate 'Angels and Demons' and - well, everything by Virginia Woolf, really!

I completely agree about the 'most read' versus 'most unread' lists- it's completely true. I enjoyed it anyway ^_~ Goodness, i hadn't realised how many more of the classics you'd read than I had ;) I think maybe I had a bit of extra intelligence in not bothering trying to read Dubliners though!

OH THE RUGBY WAS SO VERY VERY GOOD.

[sophonica]

I'm not sure I'd consider most of this list 'classics'!