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stoutfellow) wrote2008-05-17 09:47 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2008-05-17 09:47 pm
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106
What the heck.
The following list contains the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" at LibraryThing. As in, they sit on the shelf because you were supposed to read them for school or uni, because you felt you should read them because they are classics or because everyone else loves them. Or because it’s simply chique to have certain books on your shelves.
* Bold the ones you’ve read.
* Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
* Add asterisks (*) to the ones you own.
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
The Name of the Rose*
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick*
Ulysses*
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
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*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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 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 : 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*
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
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*
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 : 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
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield*
The Three Musketeers*
The following list contains the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" at LibraryThing. As in, they sit on the shelf because you were supposed to read them for school or uni, because you felt you should read them because they are classics or because everyone else loves them. Or because it’s simply chique to have certain books on your shelves.
* Bold the ones you’ve read.
* Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
* Add asterisks (*) to the ones you own.
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
The Name of the Rose*
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick*
Ulysses*
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
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*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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 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 : 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*
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
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*
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 : 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
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield*
The Three Musketeers*