oh hai a book meme.
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kjpepperWhat we have here is 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, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
ETA: Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did)read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the firstplace.
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 - I had one infamous teacher that loved teasing the sexual imagery out of everything. This was one of her favorites.
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - meh. I've decided that jane austin writes far more engaging movies than books.
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
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 *
American Gods - I hated this book.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged * - okay, if you overlook the objectivist claptrap, I really liked this book.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha*** I don't really care about the accuracy of it, I liked it.
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West ****************** so much love. I hear the musical completely changed the ending though.
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 ** - this is a fun read if you know russian to begin with.
Anansi Boys* - ...however I loved this one. go figure.
The Once and Future King** - this is italicised because I only read the Sword and the Stone bit of it.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
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*** - yeah, various teachers LOVED pointing out the whole "my dear Master Mister Bates" bit.
Les Misérables - okay, I skipped around a bit. The book is an f*ing doorstop even in paperback.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune*** - I reread this about once every 2 years or so. And I get a kick out of the movie. Especially since the toddler who played Alia is all grown up, hot, and starring in Law & Order Criminal Intent.
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 - SO MUCH HATRED. SO MUCH.
Neverwhere***** - there is an awful lot of gaiman represented here...
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved**** - and I liked the movie too. I know. *hides*
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter ** Bathtub reading growing up.
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** - BUNNY.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit ** I lved the hobbit, hated HATED HATED LoTR. I know, heresy.
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield - I love the beginning of this. Can't get past it though.
The Three Musketeers
ETA: Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did)read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the firstplace.
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 - I had one infamous teacher that loved teasing the sexual imagery out of everything. This was one of her favorites.
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice - meh. I've decided that jane austin writes far more engaging movies than books.
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
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 *
American Gods - I hated this book.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged * - okay, if you overlook the objectivist claptrap, I really liked this book.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha*** I don't really care about the accuracy of it, I liked it.
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West ****************** so much love. I hear the musical completely changed the ending though.
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 ** - this is a fun read if you know russian to begin with.
Anansi Boys* - ...however I loved this one. go figure.
The Once and Future King** - this is italicised because I only read the Sword and the Stone bit of it.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
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*** - yeah, various teachers LOVED pointing out the whole "my dear Master Mister Bates" bit.
Les Misérables - okay, I skipped around a bit. The book is an f*ing doorstop even in paperback.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune*** - I reread this about once every 2 years or so. And I get a kick out of the movie. Especially since the toddler who played Alia is all grown up, hot, and starring in Law & Order Criminal Intent.
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 - SO MUCH HATRED. SO MUCH.
Neverwhere***** - there is an awful lot of gaiman represented here...
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved**** - and I liked the movie too. I know. *hides*
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter ** Bathtub reading growing up.
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** - BUNNY.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit ** I lved the hobbit, hated HATED HATED LoTR. I know, heresy.
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield - I love the beginning of this. Can't get past it though.
The Three Musketeers
