unread books meme
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thanateThese are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.
...except that (being me) I'm going to come up with my own system:
have read
*read part of... [with notations]
own, have not read
? = I've never even heard of this book...
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi : a novel [it's in my "get back to someday" pile... good but not urgent]
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote [although this is slightly inaccurate, as it was AP english reading, and we split up the second half of the book and each presented a chapter, so technically I've read the first half, and one other bit]
*Moby Dick [read the first few chapters, intend to finish it someday... and the copy I have is my father's]
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
*The Tale of Two Cities [I have terrible bad luck with this book. I keep starting it, and then having it taken away. And then the last time, I got bored when they started going on and on about French politics; I suspect my copy is around somewhere]
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies [my mother owns it, and I should like to read it at some point]
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
? The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
? The Blind Assassin
? The Kite Runner
? Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations [unfortunately... this was what they gave me in high school after they took away Tale of Two Cities two chapters in. I despised it heartily.]
American Gods
? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged [unfortunately]
? Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
*Memoirs of a Geisha [own, intend to read, have listened to the 2-tape audiobook version]
? Middlesex
? Quicksilver
*Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West [got to section 3 and was totally uninspired by where it was going]
The Canterbury Tales [in the original, mostly...]
? The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead [unfortunately]
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo [two chapters in I got distracted by something else]
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
*The Once and Future King [honestly? I didn't want to finish it b/c it was too much like the disney movie but I own both it and the sequel, so I guess I will someday]
The Grapes of Wrath
? The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
* The Satanic Verses [I own this, and I read the first third or so, and parts of it were amazing. I <3 the city of Jahilia, or however it was spelled... but I feel no urgency to finish this book. Like most of Rushdie's stuff, it's hard to pick up, and equally hard to put down once you have... but then becomes hard to pick up again. Kind of odd, really]
Sense and Sensibility
*The Picture of Dorian Gray [no particular intention of finishing this one]
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
? To the Lighthouse
Tess of the Durbervilles
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 [intend to finish someday, only read the intro so far]
The Sound and the Fury
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir [started this, wasn't too impressed, sent it back to the library]
? 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 [AP english, or I wouldn't have done]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved [I've read exerpts from this, it seemed worthy]
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
* The Mists of Avalon [read a page in high school, sent it back to the library. listened to the 4-tape audio book later on, didn't think I'd missed much. still don't]
? Oryx and Crake : a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed [started this, had to return to the library, now there's a copy in the house & I'll get around to it eventually]
? 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 [weirdly enough, I don't think a copy of this has ever passed through my hands]
*The Aeneid [as embarrassed as I am to admit it, being a classics major and all, I sort of skipped most of that one...]
Watership Down
? Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
? In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
? White Teeth
Treasure Island [er, I think I have it... will read it eventually...]
David Copperfield [I probably have it in some inherited hardbound edition, I think]
The Three Musketeers
...except that (being me) I'm going to come up with my own system:
have read
*read part of... [with notations]
own, have not read
? = I've never even heard of this book...
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi : a novel [it's in my "get back to someday" pile... good but not urgent]
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote [although this is slightly inaccurate, as it was AP english reading, and we split up the second half of the book and each presented a chapter, so technically I've read the first half, and one other bit]
*Moby Dick [read the first few chapters, intend to finish it someday... and the copy I have is my father's]
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
*The Tale of Two Cities [I have terrible bad luck with this book. I keep starting it, and then having it taken away. And then the last time, I got bored when they started going on and on about French politics; I suspect my copy is around somewhere]
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies [my mother owns it, and I should like to read it at some point]
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
? The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
? The Blind Assassin
? The Kite Runner
? Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations [unfortunately... this was what they gave me in high school after they took away Tale of Two Cities two chapters in. I despised it heartily.]
American Gods
? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged [unfortunately]
? Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
*Memoirs of a Geisha [own, intend to read, have listened to the 2-tape audiobook version]
? Middlesex
? Quicksilver
*Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West [got to section 3 and was totally uninspired by where it was going]
The Canterbury Tales [in the original, mostly...]
? The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead [unfortunately]
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo [two chapters in I got distracted by something else]
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
*The Once and Future King [honestly? I didn't want to finish it b/c it was too much like the disney movie but I own both it and the sequel, so I guess I will someday]
The Grapes of Wrath
? The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
* The Satanic Verses [I own this, and I read the first third or so, and parts of it were amazing. I <3 the city of Jahilia, or however it was spelled... but I feel no urgency to finish this book. Like most of Rushdie's stuff, it's hard to pick up, and equally hard to put down once you have... but then becomes hard to pick up again. Kind of odd, really]
Sense and Sensibility
*The Picture of Dorian Gray [no particular intention of finishing this one]
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
? To the Lighthouse
Tess of the Durbervilles
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 [intend to finish someday, only read the intro so far]
The Sound and the Fury
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir [started this, wasn't too impressed, sent it back to the library]
? 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 [AP english, or I wouldn't have done]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved [I've read exerpts from this, it seemed worthy]
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
* The Mists of Avalon [read a page in high school, sent it back to the library. listened to the 4-tape audio book later on, didn't think I'd missed much. still don't]
? Oryx and Crake : a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed [started this, had to return to the library, now there's a copy in the house & I'll get around to it eventually]
? 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 [weirdly enough, I don't think a copy of this has ever passed through my hands]
*The Aeneid [as embarrassed as I am to admit it, being a classics major and all, I sort of skipped most of that one...]
Watership Down
? Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
? In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
? White Teeth
Treasure Island [er, I think I have it... will read it eventually...]
David Copperfield [I probably have it in some inherited hardbound edition, I think]
The Three Musketeers