Book Meme

[phil_g]

Stolen from allah_sulu and rich_teaboy.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of whenever this meme began). 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.

I have also underlined the books in my library

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) - A lovely book, and I highly recommend it.
• Anna Karenina (132)
• Crime and Punishment (121)
• Catch-22 (117)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
• Wuthering Heights (110)
• The Silmarillion (104) - Its style is not to everyone's liking, but I enjoyed it. It reads a bit like the Bible, which is quite intentional; it's essentially the mythology of Middle Earth.
• Life of Pi: a novel (94)
• The Name of the Rose (91)
• Don Quixote (91) - I read part, but not all of this in Spanish class in high school.
• Moby Dick (86)
• Ulysses (84)
• Madame Bovary (83)
• The Odyssey (83) - I read part of this in school, but I'm pretty sure I haven't read the entire thing.
• Pride and Prejudice (83) - I've been considering revisiting this one, since I enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
• 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) - It's a shame that this book is on this list.
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
• Atlas Shrugged (67) - Been meaning to read it, but I don't expect I'll like it.
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (66)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (66) - liritsvoice has read this; she wasn't impressed.
• Middlesex (66)
• Quicksilver (66) - I'm glad to have read it, though I'm not sure I really liked reading it. I own but have not summoned the courage to read the second book, The Confusion.
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65) - I wouldn't say I hated it, but I had hoped the book would be more than it was. Don't read the book. Go see the Broadway musical instead; it's much better.
• The Historian: A Novel (63)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
• Brave New World (61)
• The Fountainhead (61)
• Foucault's Pendulum (61) - I got this one because I loved The Name of the Rose. I didn't like it as much, though.
• Middlemarch (61)
• Frankenstein (59) - Unfinished because it was assigned reading. Like other books in the same boat, I should give it another try at some point.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
• Dracula (59)
• A Clockwork Orange (59)
• Anansi Boys (58) - Like American Gods, it's a shame it's here.
• The Once and Future King (57) - Plus The Book of Merlin, which isn't anywhere near as good as The Once and Future King. (Which is probably why T. H. White never published it.)
• The Grapes of Wrath (57)
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (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)
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (51)
• The God of Small Things (51)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (51)
• Cryptonomicon (50)
• Neverwhere (50) - Read your Neil Gaiman, people!
• A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
• Dubliners (50)
• 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) - Complete with a "punctuation repair kit" which I have yet to use but is awesome nevertheless.
• 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) - Several people (including liritsvoice) have indicated that I should dive this one another try.
• On the Road (46)
• 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) - Also undeserving of being on this list.
• 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)