Literariness.

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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

TOTALS- read (57)
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Comments

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion[Sorry Tolkien]
Life of Pi*
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
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
Atlas Shrugged
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
The Historian
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
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984*
Angels & Demons[I died inside]The Inferno

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I forgot to strikethrough the ones I hated. My goodness, I hate 'Angels and Demons' and - well, everything by Virginia Woolf, really!

I completely agree about the 'most read' versus 'most unread' lists- it's completely true. I enjoyed it anyway ^_~ Goodness, i hadn't realised how many more of the classics you'd read than I had ;) I think maybe I had a bit of extra intelligence in not bothering trying to read Dubliners though!

OH THE RUGBY WAS SO VERY VERY GOOD.

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I'm not sure I'd consider most of this list 'classics'!