stolen from pretty much everyone
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 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91) (parts of it in Spanish!)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses(84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) (I swear I'll finish this one day)
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The Time Traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73) (my mother stole it from me before I could finish)
The Kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66) (It's currently in my backpack)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) (oh dear god...)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury tales (64) (I love this book)
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)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) (It took me forever to read this but it's such a good, good book)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56) (I am ok with not finishing this)
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) (This is one of the few movie is as good as the book books)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) A
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53) (much to my regret)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The prince (51)
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51) (I've read parts of the first edition, I have the most recent edition)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
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)
The mists of Avalon (47) (I can't seem to finish this book)
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)
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) (I've never actually read the whole thing)
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)
In related news, my quest to cut into my own unread book pile is not going quite along as I'd hoped. I blame Harry Potter and the month I spent rereading the entire series.
In also related news, I'm thinking about doing (again) NaNoWriMo. We'll see whether I'll crash and burn in the first week again as I have for the last two years.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91) (parts of it in Spanish!)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses(84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) (I swear I'll finish this one day)
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The Time Traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73) (my mother stole it from me before I could finish)
The Kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66) (It's currently in my backpack)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) (oh dear god...)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury tales (64) (I love this book)
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)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) (It took me forever to read this but it's such a good, good book)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56) (I am ok with not finishing this)
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) (This is one of the few movie is as good as the book books)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) A
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53) (much to my regret)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The prince (51)
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51) (I've read parts of the first edition, I have the most recent edition)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
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)
The mists of Avalon (47) (I can't seem to finish this book)
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)
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) (I've never actually read the whole thing)
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)
In related news, my quest to cut into my own unread book pile is not going quite along as I'd hoped. I blame Harry Potter and the month I spent rereading the entire series.
In also related news, I'm thinking about doing (again) NaNoWriMo. We'll see whether I'll crash and burn in the first week again as I have for the last two years.