I normally skip these
What we have here is 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights I read this book at least every two years. I adore it!
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - read parts in spanish class, in spanish.
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre - really good read, get past the first thirty chapters and it gets good.
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov...no but I read his other novel "The Master and Margarita".
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma--just finished. so good!
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations --read only at gun point and had to read for TWO different classes. oh spare me!
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha the pacing of the book is so relaxing and the imagery so captivating. I love this book.
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked --does the musical count? :)
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 -- i needed a comparison piece to Edgar Allan Poe stuff on my AP. Vowed never to read all of it but after Dracula, I may change my mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula--okay, Van Helsig is awesome!!!
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath--the only time I can remember hating a teacher so much. And the only time I ever skipped school...and it was to finish reading this friggin' book! Great source material for detentions and ruined first dates.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - i am just a fan of austen and bronte...sue me. :)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles --oh my brave new step into the world of AP Lit. I adored this book! The realistic ending made me wanna read more Hardy...never got around to it.
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time-
Dune--read the whole series, twice.
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 --only at gun point...
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved--what nmissi said. but not as fascinating for me. Zora Neal on crack or something.
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter--must read. me ador!
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed-
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye--I was not changed, it did not make me see differently, it did not make me think differently but it did hold my interest and is dear to me.
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame --does the disney picture book count?
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 --are you serious? me and dickens DO NOT get along...
So that is me...I am currently struggling through a nonfiction. I detest nonfiction.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights I read this book at least every two years. I adore it!
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - read parts in spanish class, in spanish.
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre - really good read, get past the first thirty chapters and it gets good.
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov...no but I read his other novel "The Master and Margarita".
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma--just finished. so good!
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations --read only at gun point and had to read for TWO different classes. oh spare me!
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha the pacing of the book is so relaxing and the imagery so captivating. I love this book.
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked --does the musical count? :)
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 -- i needed a comparison piece to Edgar Allan Poe stuff on my AP. Vowed never to read all of it but after Dracula, I may change my mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula--okay, Van Helsig is awesome!!!
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath--the only time I can remember hating a teacher so much. And the only time I ever skipped school...and it was to finish reading this friggin' book! Great source material for detentions and ruined first dates.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - i am just a fan of austen and bronte...sue me. :)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles --oh my brave new step into the world of AP Lit. I adored this book! The realistic ending made me wanna read more Hardy...never got around to it.
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time-
Dune--read the whole series, twice.
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 --only at gun point...
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved--what nmissi said. but not as fascinating for me. Zora Neal on crack or something.
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter--must read. me ador!
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed-
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye--I was not changed, it did not make me see differently, it did not make me think differently but it did hold my interest and is dear to me.
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame --does the disney picture book count?
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 --are you serious? me and dickens DO NOT get along...
So that is me...I am currently struggling through a nonfiction. I detest nonfiction.