Unread Book Meme

[przed]

I'm waiting for a freaking huge file to upload, which is the only reason I'm doing this. But I saw it on graculus's LJ and thought it looked like fun.

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, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime And Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104) (As much as I love The Hobbit and LotR, you could not pay me enough to read this.)
Life Of Pi: A Novel (94)
The Name Of The Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83) (I read bits of it in uni, and I've got Fagles translation waiting to be read on my shelf)
Pride And Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale Of Two Cities (80) (I love a lot of Dickens--Little Dorrit, Great Expectations--but this is overrated crap.)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (79)
War And Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67) (I received all of Rand's books as a gift for my sixteenth birthday, read them all with the sense of watching a glorious train wreck in action and hate, loathed and detested them all. Especially this one.)
Reading Lolita In Tehran : A Memoir In Books (66)
Memoirs Of A Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) (Also on my shelf, waiting to be read)
Wicked : The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64) (Do I get bonus points for reading this in the original Middle English?)
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (63) (Love Dubliners, admire Ulysses, freakin' hate this.)
Love In The Time Of Cholera (62) (I officially do not get Marquez.)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61) (See Atlas Shrugged.)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count Of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once And Future King (57)
The Grapes Of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense And Sensibility (55)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) (I adore all of Austen except this book. I'd like to give Fanny Price a firm poke in the eye.)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To The Lighthouse (54)
Tess Of The D'urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay (52)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound And The Fury (51) (As Faulkner goes, I prefer Absalom, Absalom. Yes, I'm a freak.)
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God Of Small Things (51)
A People's History Of The United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy Of Dunces (50)
A Short History Of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation (48) (I haven't so much not finished this as it's a book I skim when in need of grammatical inspriation.)
The Mists Of Avalon (47)
Oryx And Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher In The Rye (46)
On The Road (46)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything (45)
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45) (Once I'm finished with Fagles' Odyssey, I'm starting in on his translation of this.)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ha - snap for the Gabriel Garcia Marquez... and yeay for finally someone else not "getting" those books!

Also, have just realised that 106 is a weird number to include in a list! *g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Oi! I love One Hundred Years of Solitude.... *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of my friends do too. (And Don just came through to berate me for not liking it.) But if I'm going to read Latin American magical realism, give me Borges every time. Or Allende. Or Bioy Casares. But never, ever Marquez.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Also, have just realised that 106 is a weird number to include in a list!

I'm betting whoever started this really wanted to include The Three Musketeers. Not that I can blame them. *g*