Which "unread" books have you read?

[ilai]

Stolen from my LJ friendslist :) I have a LibraryThing account, but I haven't put anything into it really.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Meme directions: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't/didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after

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[miraclaire]

What's your librarything username? I'm miraclaire (I really should see about changing it though since half the books are James's...) It took me about 5 days of spending several hours a day to get our whole library in there, and now it's easy since we can just catalog stuff as it comes in the door.

[ilai]

It's ianslai (unsurprisingly :) I'm always impressed by how many books everyone seems to have--most of the books I read I borrow from the local library so I don't have much of a collection.

[lokiect]

how convenient...

sadly, I borrowed ET's copy of neverwhere ;9

[starheptagon]

The ones on this list I enjoyed thoroughly and couldn't put down were Catch 22, The Name of the Rose, both of the Dumas (in the original french), 1984, Brave New World (an interesting pair; giving the right-wing and left-wing dystopias), Cryptonomicon, Slaughterhouse Five, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (but this seems to leave many people cold), and both of the Eco books (these also seem somewhat unpopular).

Books that I think have merit but feel like "work" to read: the Homers, the Dostoyevskys, the Rands, Great Expectations, Don Quijote

Books I'm surprised are not on this list: Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, Waiting for Godot, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.