Unread Books Meme

[sadlikeknives]

I can't resist a books meme. Ganked from butterflykiki

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicize 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.

Books I read and didn't:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) I bought this book with the intention of reading it on my plane ride out to California. Then I stupidly boxed it up. It's in a closet, waiting until I have a place of my own again and can take out my books.
Anna Karenina (132) My breakdown while reading this book for class is well-documented in a previous entry on this LJ, but I actually quite enjoyed it and plan to re-read it again sometime when I'm not being graded.
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110) Of which was born the Wuthering Heights Death Family Tree
The Silmarillion (104)
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)
Pride and prejudice (83) I don't know why, but Jane Austen makes me want to stab myself in the eye.
Jane Eyre (80) Just last week!
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80) I've read excerpts, but my copy remains unread in one of those boxes with Jonathon Strange. D:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and peace (78) I read it for the first time when I was fourteen, on a dare, and now cannot remember a blessed thing about the entire book. So I keep planning to reread it.
Vanity Fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73) Repeatedly. I own three copies, and plan to get the first line tattooed on myself in Greek one of these days.
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68) GOD I LOVE THIS BOOK.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61) Got seriously creeped out.
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59) It's TR's favorite book. I can't get into it.
Anansi Boys (58)
The once and future king (57) Several times, most recently for my class on King Arthur.
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) I just read this one last week, too!
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)
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)
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)
The mists of Avalon (47) I loved this the first time I read it,when I was in high school. Then I reread it for the King Arthur class and was much less enthused.
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)
Watership Down (44) Hey, this one is on my 'to read' pile right now!
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

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

RE: Jane Austen.

I can enjoy it if I remind myself I have a job and am not dependent on making a good marriage. Otherwise, I want to stab other people in the books and tell them to get lives. Or possibly emigrate to America.

*adores American Gods* I need to pick up his latest, and find out what Shadow's up to.

*likes the Odyssey better*