First off, a meme
So this one is from wuruiqiu, duckie, and a few others. It's that list of "unread" books because, really, I don't consider myself well read in the classics, but there's some good stuff on here.
The meme:
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.
I'm going to add a little twist of my own to the meme: the books that I started to read and then quit reading halfway through (because I am a heathen like that) are in italics.
And, along with the other twist, I'm going to put an * next to those books I've seen the movie of. Because that Literature Through Film class in highschool was one of the best things ever. The teacher even flat out told us that the point was for us to be able to sound like we had read the books at parties or whatever.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion - this one was just... painful
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick*
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies - I keep meaning to pick this one up again... it's just so redundant.
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations*
American Gods - ok, seriously, this book was excellent and easy to read. Why's it listed in unread?
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 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*
Anansi Boys - is Neil Gaiman a classic author already?
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* - and seeing the play, featuring my cousin, many times
Gulliver’s Travels*
Les Misérables*
The Corrections
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 - I've never thought of Gaiman as hard to read... am I wrong?
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - my wife has this one. Never read it myself though.
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita*
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
Freakonomics
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*
Wow, I guess I owe Mr. Brooks more than I realized. Tons of the movies he had us watch were on this list. And I still remember the plots of most of them all these years later.
The meme:
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.
I'm going to add a little twist of my own to the meme: the books that I started to read and then quit reading halfway through (because I am a heathen like that) are in italics.
And, along with the other twist, I'm going to put an * next to those books I've seen the movie of. Because that Literature Through Film class in highschool was one of the best things ever. The teacher even flat out told us that the point was for us to be able to sound like we had read the books at parties or whatever.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina*
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion - this one was just... painful
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick*
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies - I keep meaning to pick this one up again... it's just so redundant.
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations*
American Gods - ok, seriously, this book was excellent and easy to read. Why's it listed in unread?
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 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*
Anansi Boys - is Neil Gaiman a classic author already?
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* - and seeing the play, featuring my cousin, many times
Gulliver’s Travels*
Les Misérables*
The Corrections
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 - I've never thought of Gaiman as hard to read... am I wrong?
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - my wife has this one. Never read it myself though.
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita*
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
Freakonomics
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*
Wow, I guess I owe Mr. Brooks more than I realized. Tons of the movies he had us watch were on this list. And I still remember the plots of most of them all these years later.