Book meme
Also known as "Further proof supporting my theory that I like the idea of reading books much more than actually reading books".
Either that, or, you know, I spend too much time reading children's books or reading stuff online -- which totally count as doing actual reading but don't count for much when I'm checking off lists like this one. Oh well.
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. Add an *asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellAnna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The SilmarillionLife of Pi: a novelThe Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and PrejudiceJane EyreA Tale of Two CitiesThe Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma (I started reading this for one of my English classes and I really like it so far...I just haven't yet gotten around to actually finishing it, unfortunately.)
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. DallowayGreat ExpectationsAmerican Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
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 WestThe Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New WorldThe Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel1984Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and SensibilityThe Picture of Dorian GrayMansfield ParkOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestTo the LighthouseTess of the D'UrbervillesOliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeDune
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-FiveThe Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & LeavesThe Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
PersuasionNorthanger AbbeyThe 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 DownGravity's Rainbow
The HobbitIn Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Treasure IslandDavid Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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