Book meme

[shadowkat]

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today) (How incredibly odd! Some of those books are best-sellers.) As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't/haven't finished, and strike through what you couldn't stand.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment-own
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
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov - own
Guns, Germs, And Steel
War and Peace-own
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 - started scanning after about the first 500 pages and Gault got introduced and I got really bored.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver - isn't this a Kevin Bacon movie?
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - I read this in High School
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - ahem, I was an English Lit Major.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead (Much better than Atlas Shrugged. Actually, after having read four of her books (one a play - The Night of January 10th (I think) - my high school English Professor was right, if you want to read Ayn Rand? Just read "Anthem" - it's about 100 pages and pretty much says everything she ever had to say.)
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein - own
The Count of Monte Cristo- own
Dracula - own
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King - made it through the kid stuff then got really bored for some reason.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons (this is unread? I thought it was a best seller by Dan Brown??)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - this, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park are the three Austen's I could not get through for some reason.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - oddly better than the movie.
To the Lighthouse - I've never been able to get myself to read Virgina Woolf for some absurd reason
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections - (if you hated this book read Jonathan Kazan's collection of essays in "How to Be Alone" - in which he more or less writes an apology for what he wrote in this book. LOL!)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune - loved the original, could not for some reason make it through the sequels written by Herbert. Did however enjoy one prequel written by his son.
The Prince - My High School Honors Social Studies Course - went nutty with it and we did nothing by analyze the writings for three weeks.
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things I couldn't read it.
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 - not a fan of Hawthorn
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon - never been able to get through it.
Oryx And Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas- own
The Confusion
Lolita - own
Persuasion - one of my favorite Austen's
Northanger Abbey - couldn't get into
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - couldn't get into it.
The Aeneid
Watership Down - loved.
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood-own
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

you have a lot of books that you say you own but you didn't 'bold', so you haven't read them? Shouldn't they be underlined (meaning you plan to read them?)...
just curious.

I should have marked which ones I own...but pretty much I just have the Jane Austen's in my permanent collection (and a number of Neil Gaiman's that I currently have but mean to pass along to friends).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh - I didn't underline or anything because I honestly don't know if I'll read them, just happen to own them, which means I might read them at some point in the future.