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Oct. 2nd, 2007 09:33 pm
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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

ETA: Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.



1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime And Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude
6. *Wuthering Heights

7. The Silmarillion
8. Life Of Pi : A Novel
9. *The Name Of The Rose
10. *Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick

12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. *Pride And Prejudice
16. *Jane Eyre
17. *A Tale Of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov

19. Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
20. War And Peace
21. Vanity Fair

22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma

25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. *Great Expectations

29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita In Tehran : A Memoir In Books
33. Memoirs Of A Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked : The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian : A Novel
39. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
40. *Love In The Time Of Cholera
41. *Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead

43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. *Middlemarch
45. *Frankenstein
46. The Count Of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. *A Clockwork Orange

49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once And Future King
51. *The Grapes Of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
53. *1984

54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. *Sense And Sensibility
58. The Picture Of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. *One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
61. To The Lighthouse
62. *Tess Of The D'urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels
65. *Les Misérables
66. The Corrections

67. The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay
68. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound And The Fury
72. Angela's Ashes : A Memoir

73. The God Of Small Things
74. A People's History Of The United States : 1492-Present
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy Of Dunces
78. A Short History Of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners
80. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughterhouse-Five
83. *The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation

85. The Mists Of Avalon
86. Oryx And Crake : A Novel
87. Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher In The Rye
94. On The Road
95. *The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

96. Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
97. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
102. In Cold Blood : A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences

103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. *David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers


Let's see, I've read 58 of them, not an many as I would have thought but a lot of the ones I haven't read aren't in genres I read often (sci fi, non fic, etc.) There are also several books on the list that have been recommended to me in the past but I haven't gotten around to reading yet.

Date: 2007-10-03 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chipmunkkc.livejournal.com
oh read Life of Pi, it's the most beautiful story ever.

I'm in the middle of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I've been in the middle of it for months now. I love it, a lot, but it's long and slow. I still recommend it though, for when you need a long slow windy book.

Date: 2007-10-03 02:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cinema-babe.livejournal.com
Oooo we have similar tastes in books. I owe you an email, I've just been swamped. The short answer is I'd love to, my email is on my profile.

Date: 2007-10-03 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silvester10528.livejournal.com
Wow...

I'm feeling pretty dumb right about now...
I've read or started maybe a dozen or so of the books on this list!

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