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l33tminion) wrote2008-12-09 07:11 pm
l33tminion) wrote2008-12-09 07:11 pm
Books Unread Meme
From Yonmei:
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, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (on a shelf at home, so I should read this)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion (never made it more than a few pages in)
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre (awful book, though there were some good scenes)
A Tale of Two Cities (a great book, I've read it more than once)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel (still need to read this)
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife (also on my list)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (maybe should be on my list, but probably not)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver (list)
Wicked
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 (would have been better if the main character wasn't such a whiner)
The Count of Monte Cristo (I really want to read this now after watching Gankutsuou)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
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
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 (still on my list)
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States (just borrowed a copy from Melissa)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five (but I don't remember it well and need to reread it)
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake (list)
Collapse
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
The Aeneid
Watership Down (still need to read this sometime)
Gravity’s Rainbow (not sure if it's on my list, or if it should be)
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood (want to read this, though...)
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (on a shelf at home, so I should read this)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion (never made it more than a few pages in)
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre (awful book, though there were some good scenes)
A Tale of Two Cities (a great book, I've read it more than once)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel (still need to read this)
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife (also on my list)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged (maybe should be on my list, but probably not)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver (list)
Wicked
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 (would have been better if the main character wasn't such a whiner)
The Count of Monte Cristo (I really want to read this now after watching Gankutsuou)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
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
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 (still on my list)
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States (just borrowed a copy from Melissa)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five (but I don't remember it well and need to reread it)
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake (list)
Collapse
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
The Aeneid
Watership Down (still need to read this sometime)
Gravity’s Rainbow (not sure if it's on my list, or if it should be)
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood (want to read this, though...)
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers