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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand, and underline the ones you plan to read soon.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Most over-rated, poorly written, footnote drowned book I have ever had the misfortune of reading
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment I'VE READ IT TWICE, TAKE THAT!
Catch-22 - One of these days, I WILL read it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights - Haha, Bronte.
The Silmarillion - I refuse to read anything published after Tokein's death.
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose - I LOVE THIS BOOK. But I started it last year during school and I can't ever finish anything
during the school year. I'm totally going to read it for my free-reading thing this sem.
Don Quixote
Moby Dick - CALL ME ISHMAEL.
Ulysses - I've been borderline reading this sucker for a year.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey - I saw "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and have read excerpts...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov READING IT OVER WINTER BREAK BABY.
Guns, Germs, and Steel - My dad read it.. it's sitting around the house somewhere...
War and Peace - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Uh, NO.
Vanity Fair - THACKERAY
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad - I've read excerpts...
Emma
The Blind Assassin - (Sounds like a pretty sucky assassin...)
The Kite Runner - Nope.
Mrs. Dalloway - WOOOLLLFFF
Great Expectations
American Gods - Neil Gaiman sucks bowels.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged - I started reading Fountainhead....
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - Excerpts in Lit class!
The Historian - Surprisingly good, despite being 293048039 pages long.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World - In ONE DAY, baby. Totally not a distopia, BTW.
The Fountainhead - I think I got 1/3 of the way through. I hate architechture, and can't spell it either.
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein - I read it twice before I was 13 years old.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula - Vampires suck. Haha, pun.
A Clockwork Orange - ORANGE BURGER.
Anansi Boys - Gaiman=Eww.
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath - I couldn't stay awake for the movie either...
The Poisonwood Bible - Haha, I picked this up in FLA intending to read it and never did.
1984 - Acutally, I don't think I ever read the entire thing. Not a big Orwell fan.
Angels & Demons - EWW, EWW. BAD. WHATSHISFACE should have never graduated high school english. That guy who wrote Eragon almost writes better.
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Don't we read this in english? I hope so, otherwise I'm going to read it anyway.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist - Please sir, can I have some more?
Gulliver's Travels - Read excerpts of it in Lit class when we were discussing some other boring stuff...
Les Misérables - BLEH
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - Haha, the single most confusing book in the entire world.
The Prince - Sitting on my bedroom floor right now...
The Sound and the Fury - It's sitting somewhere in the house... I have no intention of reading it
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things - It's ringing a bell. I think I have read it, long ago.
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere - Gaiman is almost as bad at writing as DaVinci code guy. Actually, I think he's worse. Better than
Paolini though.
A Confederacy of Dunces - Overrated. Kinda stupid.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five - Because Vonnegut is mah homeboy.
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne needs to die.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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 One of these years, I'm totally going to be Holden for Halloween.
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Love it, recommend it to anyone.
Very quick read and infinitly interesting.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Also sitting around the house. Srsly.
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit - 5 times, once when I was in... 2nd grade. (The 2nd time)
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island - Best adventure story ever. Complete classic that makes you feel like an 8 year old kid again.
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Most over-rated, poorly written, footnote drowned book I have ever had the misfortune of reading
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment I'VE READ IT TWICE, TAKE THAT!
Catch-22 - One of these days, I WILL read it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights - Haha, Bronte.
The Silmarillion - I refuse to read anything published after Tokein's death.
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose - I LOVE THIS BOOK. But I started it last year during school and I can't ever finish anything
during the school year. I'm totally going to read it for my free-reading thing this sem.
Don Quixote
Moby Dick - CALL ME ISHMAEL.
Ulysses - I've been borderline reading this sucker for a year.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey - I saw "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and have read excerpts...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov READING IT OVER WINTER BREAK BABY.
Guns, Germs, and Steel - My dad read it.. it's sitting around the house somewhere...
War and Peace - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Uh, NO.
Vanity Fair - THACKERAY
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad - I've read excerpts...
Emma
The Blind Assassin - (Sounds like a pretty sucky assassin...)
The Kite Runner - Nope.
Mrs. Dalloway - WOOOLLLFFF
Great Expectations
American Gods - Neil Gaiman sucks bowels.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged - I started reading Fountainhead....
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - Excerpts in Lit class!
The Historian - Surprisingly good, despite being 293048039 pages long.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World - In ONE DAY, baby. Totally not a distopia, BTW.
The Fountainhead - I think I got 1/3 of the way through. I hate architechture, and can't spell it either.
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein - I read it twice before I was 13 years old.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula - Vampires suck. Haha, pun.
A Clockwork Orange - ORANGE BURGER.
Anansi Boys - Gaiman=Eww.
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath - I couldn't stay awake for the movie either...
The Poisonwood Bible - Haha, I picked this up in FLA intending to read it and never did.
1984 - Acutally, I don't think I ever read the entire thing. Not a big Orwell fan.
Angels & Demons - EWW, EWW. BAD. WHATSHISFACE should have never graduated high school english. That guy who wrote Eragon almost writes better.
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Don't we read this in english? I hope so, otherwise I'm going to read it anyway.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist - Please sir, can I have some more?
Gulliver's Travels - Read excerpts of it in Lit class when we were discussing some other boring stuff...
Les Misérables - BLEH
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - Haha, the single most confusing book in the entire world.
The Prince - Sitting on my bedroom floor right now...
The Sound and the Fury - It's sitting somewhere in the house... I have no intention of reading it
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things - It's ringing a bell. I think I have read it, long ago.
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere - Gaiman is almost as bad at writing as DaVinci code guy. Actually, I think he's worse. Better than
Paolini though.
A Confederacy of Dunces - Overrated. Kinda stupid.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five - Because Vonnegut is mah homeboy.
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne needs to die.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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 One of these years, I'm totally going to be Holden for Halloween.
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Love it, recommend it to anyone.
Very quick read and infinitly interesting.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Also sitting around the house. Srsly.
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit - 5 times, once when I was in... 2nd grade. (The 2nd time)
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island - Best adventure story ever. Complete classic that makes you feel like an 8 year old kid again.
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers