ganked from sdelmonte

[yakalskovich]

The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. How they determined this, I don't know.

Bold is for books read. Italics for books started but never finished. Strikethrough is for books found to be unreadable.

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion - Knew it almost by heart at one point
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A 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 : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked
* The Canterbury Tales Read thme in college. Can't recall much
* 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 - Brilliant!! Love it to bits! It's terribly underappreciated, I find. And quite profound.
* 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 - I think I read five of the six original books. Does that count as 'not finished'?
* 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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
* The Mists of Avalon - **blushes**
* 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
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values - I only started it a while back, for the first time, and refuse to file it under 'Have given up'. I think I will still finish it.
* 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
* The Three Musketeers

Comments

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

You haven't read Treasure Island?? *GASP*
:-D
May I post my list here as my LJ is somewhat just costuming related and also slightly abandoned?

[yakalskovich]

No, I haven't. And yes, please, go ahead - I am curious!

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - I tried, really. Remind me to give the book back to

you.

* Anna Karenina - I inherited a thingy for Russian authors from my mom.

* Crime and Punishment

* Catch-22

* One Hundred Years of Solitude

* Wuthering Heights

* The Silmarillion I failed on all Tolkien books :-(

* Life of Pi : a novel

* The Name of the Rose

* Don Quixote - I can't remember if I read it. I know my dad has a copy and I remember me holding

it in my hand. And I know the story.

* Moby Dick

* Ulysses - Hey, wasn't that a computer game on the C64?

* Madame Bovary

* The Odyssey - I have some version of it in a book about ancient greek tales. Does that

count?

* Pride and Prejudice

* Jane Eyre

* A 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 - See The Odyssey

* Emma

* The Blind Assassin

* The Kite Runner

* Mrs. Dalloway

* Great Expectations I'll manage the last few pages some day.

* American Gods

* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

* Atlas Shrugged

* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books

* Memoirs of a Geisha - I definately plan to borrow it from my mom one day.

* Middlesex

* Quicksilver

* Wicked

* 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 - Had to. In school.

* 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 - That's a vook? I thought they made the movie off a Panini sticker album.

* The Prince - Need to get a copy to read it all.

* 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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - huuh?

* The Mists of Avalon - My mom made me!

* 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

* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values - I tried a few pages

when I found it on the dark purple godess' stack of unread books.

* 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 - I got the edition my dad read when he was a kid.

* David Copperfield

* The Three Musketeers