a book list meme - popular to buy and not get around to reading

[derien]

via pussreboots

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 what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

What surprises me is how many of these I've never heard of. I'm going to add a dash (-) after things I'm looking forward to reading in the near future (hopefully) asterisk (*) by things I haven't heard of, and two (**) by those I wouldn't want to be caught dead reading, because I'm that kind of bitch.



Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell -
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights** (not after tronella's review! :))
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi**
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*
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**
Memoirs of a Geisha**
Middlesex ** (groundctrl has been reading this for months - from what he says about it I don't think I'll try)
Quicksilver*
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
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
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 Kav
alier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
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
Oryx and Crake
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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers


Eor is being good and writing email to someone. Glancing over, his paragraphs all look just about the same size, which reminds me of when bravecows was writing Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Smallville fic in the style of Jane Austen, which probably only occures to me at this moment because I was just reading the beginnings of Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility wondering if I'd read them before.

Obviously I need to go to sleep. There's a reason why I don't get any writing done when I'm sick - brain not function.