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