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A sufficiently desperate amalgamated waffle sorter ([personal profile] kd7sov) wrote2007-10-04 05:54 pm
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The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable.


* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* 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
* A 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 I started this one, but around the time the apparent protagonist tried to out-drink someone calling himself a leprechaun I decided it was just too foul.
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver I'm not sure about this one; I've read a book called Quicksilver - a technothriller by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens - but I don't know if it's this one.
* Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West Likewise - somewhere in the Emerald City I decided I didn't really want to hear about her sex life.
* 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
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein I don't know if reading children's versions counts, but I'm marking it anyway.
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King I decided in eighth grade that this would be a good subject for a book report. I remember next to nothing about it.
* 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
* Mansfield Park
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* Oliver Twist In, I think, seventh grade we were required to read this one. I never finished, but I still passed well enough.
* 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 I didn't like it much, but I read it.
* 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-Five
* The Scarlet Letter
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation If this weren't so hideously overpriced - at least in the US - I'd own a copy.
* 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 - My parents apparently don't like this one. I may have to find out why sometime.
* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics
* 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
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers - I keep wanting to read this one - like Les Mis - but I can never find it.