Book meme --- I had to...
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users as of 9/30/07. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.
My addition: underline what you plan to read someday.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Next I read it in Spanish!)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (It's possible I couldn't finish it because I was reading it in the original archaic Spanish...)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities (I vaguely remember my mom forcing me to read this but not anything about it...)
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 (I actually own this book and it's on my list of to-reads next)
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (BEST BOOK EVER)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
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 (Next: in Spanish!)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (I think I was a little young for it at the time)
The Count of Monte Cristo (I think I read an abridged version when I was a kid... does that count?)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange (I couldn't get past the first chapter. I could not understand the slang and it was frustrating.)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (Started reading it at camp but then had to leave... fully intend to finish it!)
1984
Angels and Demons
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 (I am shocked and appalled that this book is on this list.)
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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (selections only)
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
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 (HELLZ YEAH)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Three Musketeers
Total: 15
Total: 7
Total: 1
Total: 7
My addition: underline what you plan to read someday.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Next I read it in Spanish!)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (It's possible I couldn't finish it because I was reading it in the original archaic Spanish...)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities (I vaguely remember my mom forcing me to read this but not anything about it...)
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 (I actually own this book and it's on my list of to-reads next)
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (BEST BOOK EVER)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
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 (Next: in Spanish!)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (I think I was a little young for it at the time)
The Count of Monte Cristo (I think I read an abridged version when I was a kid... does that count?)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange (I couldn't get past the first chapter. I could not understand the slang and it was frustrating.)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (Started reading it at camp but then had to leave... fully intend to finish it!)
1984
Angels and Demons
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 (I am shocked and appalled that this book is on this list.)
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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (selections only)
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
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 (HELLZ YEAH)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Three Musketeers
Total: 15
Total: 7
Total: 1
Total: 7