What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish.
(Most of the other bloggers I've seen do this have bolded a great many more books than me. I feel as if I read all the time but somehow I haven't managed to read mainstream books.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel (I'm going to read this for a course very soon, does that count?)
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
A Tale of Two Cities
Pride and Prejudice (no, but I have of course seen the multiple screen versions)
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway (I started this not long ago but got distracted by something else and had to return it to the library)
Great Expectations (I have no interest in reading Dickens)
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (brilliant!)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex (the only book I've missed from my book group in over two years)
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
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
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse (a brilliant book, one of my all-time favourites)
A Canterbury Tale
Tess of the Durberville
Oliver Twist (no but I've seen the film and the musical)
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (co-parent read this recently, does that count?)
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
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (I saw the film and its pretentiousness turned me off ever reading the novel)
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake (I own this and like Margaret Atwood but it just looks too depressing)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita (one of co-parent's all-time favourites, which I intend one day to read)
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
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
No it does NOT count if co-p has read the book! Resist the urge to merge!
I have 'Lolita in Tehran' on my bookshelf and will read it directly, now that you have recommended it.
Posted by: Mikhela | Friday, May 16, 2008 at 09:45 PM