a book meme? of course

[winterbadger]

What 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.

too busy to do all the tags, so I've broken down alternately

read
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Gulliver’s Travels
Pride and Prejudice
American Gods
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
Dune
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Watership Down
The Hobbit
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers

read for school
Catch-22
Great Expectations
1984
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
The Prince
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Catcher in the Rye
The Aeneid

started but didn't finish
The Mists of Avalon (may try again some day...may not)
A Confederacy of Dunces (a book that should be lightly tossed aside, but flung with great force)

never read, but own (will def. read them someday)
Don Quixote
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies
War and Peace

don't own, haven't read, would like to read someday
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
Jane Eyre
Emma
The Canterbury Tales
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Kite Runner
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
The Grapes of Wrath
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Les Misérables
The Sound and the Fury
The God of Small Things
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

don't own, haven't read, might read someday
Life of Pi: a novel
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Mrs. Dalloway
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Middlesex
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lolita
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

no interest in reading
Atlas Shrugged
Angels & Demons
Ulysses
Dubliners
Moby Dick
The Scarlet Letter
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
A Clockwork Orange
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood

never heard of
The Blind Assassin
The Historian: A Novel
Beloved
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Quicksilver
White Teeth
The Corrections
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything