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Taken from Rki -- and someone else I can't find again. Here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 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 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 : a memoir in books 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 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 : a novel 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 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 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 Mists of Avalon Oryx and Crake : a novel 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 : an inquiry into values The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity's Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield The Three Musketeers |
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I think the interesting thing on this meme is the list of what a person has started but not finished. And also, my upcoming meme of what's on your *personal* list of "I own -- and have owned for more than a year -- and intend to get around to. But haven't. Yet." you saw it on mine I bet http://noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com/37 |
On May 5th, 2008 03:13 pm (UTC), (Anonymous) commented: What is LibraryThing?; ie, why this list of books and not some other top 100 list What's the criteria? I find the choices odd. I think you would like the Poisonwood Bible. I did anyway. I read a bunch of her other books first, liked them all, but the Poisonwood Bible was so good that my head hurt for days just thinking about it. Of course, The Unbearable Lighness of Being, has been a favorite for a long time. The Other M-- Library Thing is a "Social Personal Library Catalog." So, you put what you own,it fills in info from the library of congress (ala Netflix). I assume you can enter whether you are Planning to Read it, have Stopped Reading it, can rate it, got it used, from a Library, etc. You can look at friends' libraries, ratings, reviews. So these are the books -- is my understanding -- of books that people purchased or received, but did not actually read, according to their statistics. |