very outdated (and rather pointless) meme

[maribou]

Cleaning up my desktop, I came across this, which I'd saved to post one of those proverbial days and never bothered. Today, I bother:

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but didn'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 (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
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)* (I've read the first half or so about 3 times, in French. I get distracted by how pretty it is and start reading it out loud and well, reading all of les mis out loud is sort of ... easy to get interrupted from. and then next time I always want to start over from the beginning...)
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)
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

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

There are three books on that list I've not read: The Mists of Avalon, A People's History of the United States, The Time Traveller's Wife. Huh.

[maribou]

The thing is, I think, that someone had to *mark* them as unread to show up on the list. So it's more like 'list of stuff people on librarything keep meaning to read one of these days'... as such, I would figure *you* would've read most of 'em:)