Book meme
Stolen from logodaedaly
The original instructions, which seem to have gotten dumped early on:
What we have here is 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. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
read
The Hobbit
Great Expectations
Don Quixote
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Canterbury Tales
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray
American Gods
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angels & Demons
The Mists of Avalon
Life of Pi: a novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
own/on my lists of books to read
Lolita
The Corrections
The Kite Runner
War and Peace
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Grapes of Wrath
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies
Anansi Boys
1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
may read, but have no immediate plans to
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Dracula
Watership Down
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Slaughterhouse-Five
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
A Clockwork Orange
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Emma
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Middlemarch
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
Sense and Sensibility
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Catch-22
Vanity Fair
Dune
The Aeneid
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood
The Once and Future King
Ulysses
Brave New World
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Satanic Verses
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
The Prince
Les Misérables
Treasure Island
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mrs. Dalloway
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything
The Three Musketeers
tried to read, gave up on (may come back to)
Wuthering Heights
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
probably will never read
The Silmarillion
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
never heard of
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
Middlesex
Cryptonomicon
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
White Teeth
To the Lighthouse
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
The Historian: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Sound and the Fury
Quicksilver
A Short History of Nearly Everything
On the Road
Cloud Atlas
The Blind Assassin
Beloved
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The God of Small Things
Foucault’s Pendulum
Wow, there's a lot I haven't heard of... I knew that, though. I'll have to look into them, some of the titles sound interesting.
The original instructions, which seem to have gotten dumped early on:
What we have here is 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. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
read
The Hobbit
Great Expectations
Don Quixote
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Canterbury Tales
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray
American Gods
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angels & Demons
The Mists of Avalon
Life of Pi: a novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
own/on my lists of books to read
Lolita
The Corrections
The Kite Runner
War and Peace
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Grapes of Wrath
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies
Anansi Boys
1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
may read, but have no immediate plans to
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Dracula
Watership Down
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Slaughterhouse-Five
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
A Clockwork Orange
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Emma
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Middlemarch
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
Sense and Sensibility
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Catch-22
Vanity Fair
Dune
The Aeneid
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood
The Once and Future King
Ulysses
Brave New World
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Satanic Verses
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
The Prince
Les Misérables
Treasure Island
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mrs. Dalloway
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything
The Three Musketeers
tried to read, gave up on (may come back to)
Wuthering Heights
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
probably will never read
The Silmarillion
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
never heard of
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
Middlesex
Cryptonomicon
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
White Teeth
To the Lighthouse
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
The Historian: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Sound and the Fury
Quicksilver
A Short History of Nearly Everything
On the Road
Cloud Atlas
The Blind Assassin
Beloved
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The God of Small Things
Foucault’s Pendulum
Wow, there's a lot I haven't heard of... I knew that, though. I'll have to look into them, some of the titles sound interesting.