Books meme.

[evilbeej]

Meme snagged from infinitepryde.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

I've underlined the ones that I've never seen a copy of in our house. Also note, I have put in italics the books that I started, COULD have finished, but didn't get around to, books that I've started and someday INTEND to finish, and books that I started and then gave away because I couldn't actually bring myself to throw them out the window.



Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56)
The inferno (56)
The satanic verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The prince (51)
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51) (this has, to date, been in the to-be-read-pile, physical copy and all, for eight years)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50)
A short history of nearly everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud atlas (47)
The confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The three musketeers (44)

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Rather than muck with tagging:

Read: Don Quixote (in Spanish, no less), The Odyssey, Brave New World, Frankenstein, Dracula, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Dune, The Prince, The Hobbit

Was made to read but didn't like it: Oliver Twist, The Scarlet Letter, David Copperfield

Read some adaptation but not the real thing: Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers

Started, didn't finish, but mean to someday (probably because I read part of it in class): The Iliad, The Canterbury Tales

Started but didn't WANT to finish: Silmarillion

So many books, so little attention in my span

[dreadpirate.livejournal.com]

Read, loved: Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, American Gods, The Once and Future King, The Corrections, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Lolita, The Catcher In The Rye, Watership Down, David Copperfield, The Three Musketeers

Read, was okay with: Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, A Tale of Two Cities, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, Mrs. Dalloway, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Brave New World, Dracula, The Grapes of Wrath, 1984, The Inferno, A People's History of the United States: 1492-present, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, The Hobbit, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

Read, hated: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Started reading, couldn't finish: Ulysses, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Sound and the Fury, The God of Small Things, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Mists of Avalon, On The Road

Currently reading, will probably finish soon: John Adams

Currently reading, might finish before the end of the decade: The Bostonians