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.
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 first place. (I'm putting a # next to the ones I own-- or the ones that I *think* we own-- but that I have not read.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell #
Anna Karenina (reading in November for book club)
Crime and Punishment #
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary#
The Odyssey *
Pride and Prejudice #
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
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in
Memoirs of a Geisha #
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West #
The
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
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King #
The Grapes of Wrath#
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel #
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno*
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility #
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist #
Gulliver’s Travels#
Les 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
Cryptonomicon (I own Snow Crash…does that count?)
Neverwhere #
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The 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 (I guess I bought the wrong book...)
Lolita
Persuasion #
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the
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
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
David Copperfield #
The Three Musketeers
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4 comments:
What's your favorite book on this list that you've read?
Hard choice. It's changed over the years. Today, I think Dune. Tomorrow, who knows...
These are the other ones I like in order (today) of how much I like them.
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein
Tale of Two Cities
Mists of Avalon
Scarlet Letter
Inferno
Nifty. I like Jane Eyre too. I just can't read Charles Dickens. I dislike his style too much. I tried a Tale of Two Cities and couldn't get into it.
See, I loved how he had all these seemingly random plots going on, yet he was able to tie them all together so artfully by the end.
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