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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
I starred mine since I fail at html.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
*Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
*One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi : a novel* (hated it!)
*The Name of the Rose* (didn't get it!)
Don Quixote
*Moby Dick*
Ulysses
*Madame Bovary*
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice* (just read it this year!)
Jane Eyre
*The Tale of Two Cities*
*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* (bleh!)
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
*Atlas Shrugged*
*Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books* (got halfway through it; it was BORING!)
*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*
*Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
*Foucault’s Pendulum*
Middlemarch
*Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
*Dracula*
*A Clockwork Orange* (care for a glass of moloko?)
Anansi Boys
*The Once and Future King*
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
*1984*
Angels & 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* (overrated)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
Dune
*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* (started it; got bored)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
*The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
*Beloved* (hated it)
*Slaughterhouse-five*
*The Scarlet Letter*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
*The Mists of Avalon*
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
*Lolita* (listened to it on tape, preferable to reading this one!)
*Persuasion*
*Northanger Abbey*
*The Catcher in the Rye*
*On the Road* (hated it!)
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
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Whew, 44, I think! Good thing I had that Jane Austen reading fest earlier this year! I have a few of those sitting unread on the bookshelf, too.(/lj-cut>
I starred mine since I fail at html.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
*Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
*One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi : a novel* (hated it!)
*The Name of the Rose* (didn't get it!)
Don Quixote
*Moby Dick*
Ulysses
*Madame Bovary*
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice* (just read it this year!)
Jane Eyre
*The Tale of Two Cities*
*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* (bleh!)
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
*Atlas Shrugged*
*Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books* (got halfway through it; it was BORING!)
*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*
*Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
*Foucault’s Pendulum*
Middlemarch
*Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
*Dracula*
*A Clockwork Orange* (care for a glass of moloko?)
Anansi Boys
*The Once and Future King*
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
*1984*
Angels & 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* (overrated)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
Dune
*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* (started it; got bored)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
*The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
*Beloved* (hated it)
*Slaughterhouse-five*
*The Scarlet Letter*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
*The Mists of Avalon*
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
*Lolita* (listened to it on tape, preferable to reading this one!)
*Persuasion*
*Northanger Abbey*
*The Catcher in the Rye*
*On the Road* (hated it!)
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
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Whew, 44, I think! Good thing I had that Jane Austen reading fest earlier this year! I have a few of those sitting unread on the bookshelf, too.(/lj-cut>