Unread Books Meme

[drplokta]

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. (Gacked from nhw.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
(No title) (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)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
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 : a novel (68)
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)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys : a novel (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)
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 : a novel (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 : a novel (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu… (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud atlas : a novel (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… (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into … (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's rainbow (44)
(No title) (44)
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its … (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The three musketeers (44)

Comments

[timill]

Some interesting titles there:
(No title) (104)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
(No title) (44)

[nwhyte]

They are actually The Silmarillion and The Hobbit respectively; for some reason LibraryThing choked on their titles!

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Catch-22
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Pride and prejudice
War and peace
The kite runner *
American gods: a novel
Brave new world
Foucault's pendulum *
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo *
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys : a novel
The once and future king *
1984
The satanic verses
The picture of Dorian Gray
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury *
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
Slaughterhouse-five
The scarlet letter
Oryx and Crake : a novel *
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into …
Gravity's rainbow
Treasure Island


*The kite runner
   Bad timing -- won't deal with themes of betrayal this year
Foucault's pendulum
   When I told Bob Wilson it was an alternate version ofIlluminatus! with less sex and politics, he said, "Good. Now I don't have to read it."
The Count of Monte Cristo
   (kiddie version)
The once and future king
   didn't get around to finishing it, didn'trefuse to finish it
The sound and the fury
   assigned to be reported on in a week by a hostile high school English teacher
Oryx and Crake : a novel
   just picked it up in a used bookstore last week; expect to finish it!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I got the impression that Foucault's Pendulum was the anti-Illuminatus!: Lotsa sex, dope, and conspiracy, but in the end it's all bullshit, and it'll get you killed. Never got up the nerve to read it and find out for sure.