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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: sounds poor
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion***
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose**
Don Quixote: look and learn version only
Moby Dick**
Ulysses sorry pinefox -- i wz readin it w.dr vick in france in 2004 and we both threw it into the sea at the same time in disgust and boredom! (prior to arrival of l.bloom)
The Odyssey: robert graves version, look and learn version
Pride and Prejudice: i think! but i might not have finished it, i was little
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities: at school and i suspect rather skimmed
The Brothers Karamazov: too young, bcz linus in peanuts read it!
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: this year! it is awesome
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged <-- want to!
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books <-- ditto, despite ponciness after colon
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
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
Brave New World
The Fountainhead <-- the film is VERY FUNNY
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo <-- one of vick's favourite books
(holiday convo -- DrV: "wd ppl visit me in prison?" DDD: "not the chateau d'if" DrV: "Fair enuff")
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: never got past first page!
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse <-- vick sez this is dreadful, moominpappa at sea sed to be a p!sstake
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels: various abridged versions only i ph34r but versions which included hoonyhyms and laputa
Les Misérables
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: i am not touching this
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners*: *mainly rereading the last story admittedly
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: kundera is a TOOL
Beloved: i liked others of hers better but can't now recall which
Slaughterhouse-Five**: player piano is my favourite, must reread
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: bought for self and haven't opened >:(
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: reading right now! purely by chance just after rereading all the books at home abt the KON-TIKI expedition oh lovely lovely kon-tiki, i need a new avatar don't i?
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita**: overrated i think, PALE FIRE is the one
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye: the INDIE in the EMO more like
On the Road: might have been one of the others i didn't finish, they're all the same anyway
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: given to me as an xmas present by a friend of the family who sed "we all read thisd and it has changed our lives!" (evidence for claim has been scant to say the least)
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow*******
The Hobbit********************
White Teeth: xmas pres from sistrah becky, hardback, still waiting to be read
Treasure Island**: READ THIS NOW FOOLS and LUBBERS -- as loved by dr vick AND
byebyepride
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion***
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose**
Don Quixote: look and learn version only
Moby Dick**
The Odyssey: robert graves version, look and learn version
Pride and Prejudice: i think! but i might not have finished it, i was little
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities: at school and i suspect rather skimmed
The Brothers Karamazov: too young, bcz linus in peanuts read it!
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: this year! it is awesome
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged <-- want to!
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books <-- ditto, despite ponciness after colon
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
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
Brave New World
The Fountainhead <-- the film is VERY FUNNY
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo <-- one of vick's favourite books
(holiday convo -- DrV: "wd ppl visit me in prison?" DDD: "not the chateau d'if" DrV: "Fair enuff")
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: never got past first page!
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse <-- vick sez this is dreadful, moominpappa at sea sed to be a p!sstake
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels: various abridged versions only i ph34r but versions which included hoonyhyms and laputa
Les Misérables
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
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners*: *mainly rereading the last story admittedly
Beloved: i liked others of hers better but can't now recall which
Slaughterhouse-Five**: player piano is my favourite, must reread
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: bought for self and haven't opened >:(
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: reading right now! purely by chance just after rereading all the books at home abt the KON-TIKI expedition oh lovely lovely kon-tiki, i need a new avatar don't i?
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita**: overrated i think, PALE FIRE is the one
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
On the Road: might have been one of the others i didn't finish, they're all the same anyway
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: given to me as an xmas present by a friend of the family who sed "we all read thisd and it has changed our lives!" (evidence for claim has been scant to say the least)
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow*******
The Hobbit********************
White Teeth: xmas pres from sistrah becky, hardback, still waiting to be read
Treasure Island**: READ THIS NOW FOOLS and LUBBERS -- as loved by dr vick AND
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David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers