These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by Library Thing's users, as of some day, we aren't sure.
Here are the instructions that I got with the meme: Bold- what you have read, italicise-what you started but couldn’t finish, 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.
Since I don't know how to underline in the blog world and since I can't seem to strike through and bold, here's what I'm going to do:
Bold- What I've read
Italicise- what I couldn't finish
*- what I read more than once
Write TBR- for those I have on my To Be Read List
Write comments for those I hated or whatever
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina - TBR
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude -TBR
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - TBR
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice* - My favorite book of all time. I have also seem many different screen version and read different incarnations and sequels to it. LOVE IT and everything about it.
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities - Don't remember it much. We did the play in 8th grade. I don't even remember what part I had just that I was in it.
The Brothers Karamazov - I can see how in it's time period this was probably very controversial and ultra topical but when I read it, it was just downright boring. I would say pass on this unless you are studying the time period or Russian lit.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair - TBR
The Time Traveler’s Wife - TBR
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner - LOVED IT.
Mrs. Dalloway - TBR
Great Expectations - TBR
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged - I am thinking I should probably read this as it appears on every book list I have ever looked at but I've looked at it and it's not doing it for me.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha - I saw the movie, not sure I can read the book now.
Middlesex - TBR
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 - TBR
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum - TBR
Middlemarch - TBR
Frankenstein -I was pleasantly surprised that I like this. I thought it was going to be all sci-fi and yucky. It wasn't. I thought the writing was excellent. It's told as a story of a story of a story. I don't remember how many levels, 3 or 4 maybe. Very well done. I didn't loose the thread even once.
The Count of Monte Cristo - This is supposed to be really good reading and I may even own it because I think 17 may have had to read it. I need to look around for it and maybe add it to my piles if we own it.
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses - TBR
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray - TBR
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse - This was hard to read. Some of the scenes where she writes as if she in everyone's head at the same time- amazing but oh so hard to read.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - TBR
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables - TBR
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 -TBR
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter - TBR
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
Catcher in the Rye
On the Road - TBR
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - TBR
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 - TBR
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit - I HATED THIS BOOK. I read it in 7th grade. I gave it another chance as an adult because it's so acclaimed. Still hated it. I can objectively appreciate the writing style but it's not my cup of tea.
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences - I also saw the movie. One of the few movies that did justice to the book. Both were eerie.
White Teeth - I've never even heard of this.
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
If you participate, please let me know in my comments.
I've read 26 out of 106, that's like 25%. I'm not very impressed with that. I've marked 9 as TBR. I wonder if I can get one or 2 of those in before the end of the year.
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