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These are the top one-hundred-six books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - mmm, it kept seeming like it was JUST about to become very interesting. Just never quite did. I do mean to go back and read this. Eventually.
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment - I do believe we have copies of these two books at home... I'm just not that much of a sucker for punishment, yeah?
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
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 - tried to read online, but kept getting distracted.
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver - oh heh, i've just got a copy of this! Picked it up and read the first two pages... i'm a bit afraid to really get into it (hii 500 words due tomorrow)
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, or, The Modern Prometheus
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
1984
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown? Really?
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses - someday.
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray - again with the online reading - it's just not quite right reading something like this on the screen.
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 - I stopped halfway for a bit, and when i picked it up again i could neither really remember what on earth had been happening for the first 200 pages nor could i find exactly where i had left off.
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 - or possibly i did finish reading it but i don't really remember, nor did i like it anyhoo.
On the Road - first person, ugh.
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* - hoo, how many times have i read this? SUCH a great book... i was slightly obsessed with books involving sentient animals when i was younger. I even named my (only) rabbit Hazel... ahh... good times. It's like comfort food, you know? I even feel like re-reading it now.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit - not quite sentient animals, but creatures i guess...
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - mmm, it kept seeming like it was JUST about to become very interesting. Just never quite did. I do mean to go back and read this. Eventually.
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment - I do believe we have copies of these two books at home... I'm just not that much of a sucker for punishment, yeah?
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
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 - tried to read online, but kept getting distracted.
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver - oh heh, i've just got a copy of this! Picked it up and read the first two pages... i'm a bit afraid to really get into it (hii 500 words due tomorrow)
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, or, The Modern Prometheus
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
1984
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown? Really?
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses - someday.
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray - again with the online reading - it's just not quite right reading something like this on the screen.
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 - I stopped halfway for a bit, and when i picked it up again i could neither really remember what on earth had been happening for the first 200 pages nor could i find exactly where i had left off.
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 - or possibly i did finish reading it but i don't really remember, nor did i like it anyhoo.
On the Road - first person, ugh.
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* - hoo, how many times have i read this? SUCH a great book... i was slightly obsessed with books involving sentient animals when i was younger. I even named my (only) rabbit Hazel... ahh... good times. It's like comfort food, you know? I even feel like re-reading it now.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit - not quite sentient animals, but creatures i guess...
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers