The Top 106 Books Most Often Marked As “Unread” By LibraryThing’s Users.
Strike-through books you’ve read before.
Italicize books you’ve read before but haven’t finished.
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(Stolen from The Ax for the Frozen Sea)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One-hundred Years of SolitudeWuthering HeightsThe SilmarillionThe Aeneid
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame BovaryThe OdysseyPride and PrejudiceJane EyreThe 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 WifeThe IliadEmma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. DallowayGreat 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
MiddlemarchFrankensteinThe 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 VersesSense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian GrayMansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Test of the D’Urbervilles
To the LighthouseOliver Twist
Gulliver’s TravelsLes 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-fiveThe 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 RoadThe 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
Watership Down
Gravity’s RainbowThe Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White TeethTreasure IslandDavid CopperfieldThe Three Musketeers
Total: 21% Pretentious. And I wish I had read more of the these books than I have. Maybe that's what I'll do this summer. :)
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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1 comment:
yeah, there are some books here I've read that you haven't, but just as many you've read but I haven't. I definitely should work on that this summer if I have time.
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