LibraryThing’s Top Unread Books

I ran across an interesting post by LunarEclipse and thought, with all the LT lists that’s been done, this one would be fun to do, too.

These are the top 103 (was 106, bu I guess I lost 3 somewhere) books most often marked “unread” (or the equivalent) by LibraryThing’s users. The rules are: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you started but did not finish (DNF), *STAR* the books you’ve read more than once, underline books that are on your TBR pile, and cross out books that you hated.

Here is my list:

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina (a long time ago in high school… should reread)
3. Crime and Punishment
4. The Silmarillion
5. Life of Pi : a novel
6. The Name of the Rose
7. Don Quixote * (in English and the original Spanish)
8. Moby Dick
9. Ulysses
10. Madame Bovary (read it in high school and I want to reread it.)
11. The Odyssey
12. Pride and Prejudice *(read it in high school, and just reread it a couple weeks ago, review is here)
13. Jane Eyre (read in high school and want to reread)
14. A Tale of Two Cities
15. The Brothers Karamazov
16. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
17. War and Peace (read in high school, but need to reread)
18. Vanity Fair
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife
20. The Iliad
21. Emma (next up on my Jane-a-thon)
22. The Blind Assassin
23. The Kite Runner (one of my top 5 this year)
24. Mrs. Dalloway
25. Great Expectations (loved it! Read in high school, and want to reread)
26. American Gods
27. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
28. Atlas Shrugged (got to the sex scene, got side tracked by school, haven’t gotten back to it)
29. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
30. Memoirs of a Geisha
31. Middlesex (one of my top 5 this year)
32. Quicksilver
33. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
34. The Canterbury Tales
35. The Historian : a novel
36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
37. Love in the Time of Cholera
38. Brave New World
39. The Fountainhead
40. Foucault’s Pendulum
41. Middlemarch
42. Frankenstein
43. The Count of Monte Cristo
44. Dracula
45. A Clockwork Orange
46. Anansi Boys
47. The Once and Future King
48. The Grapes of Wrath
49. The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
50. 1984
51. Angels & Demons
52. The Inferno
53. The Satanic Verses
54. Sense and Sensibility *(read in high school, reread a couple weeks ago, review here)
55. The Picture of Dorian Gray
56. Mansfield Park (read it last week, review is here)
57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
58. To the Lighthouse
59. Tess of the D’Urbervilles *(read in HS, reread at the beginning of this year)
60. Oliver Twist
61. Gulliver’s Travels
62. Les Misérables
63. The Corrections
64. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
66. Dune
67. The Prince (I’ve been reading this one for about 6 or 7 months now.)
68. The Sound and the Fury (read in HS, could probably do with a reread, but I didn’t really care for it the first time so it’s hard to force myself to do it again)
69. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
70. The God of Small Things
71. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
72. Cryptonomicon
73. Neverwhere
74. A Confederacy of Dunces
75. A Short History of Nearly Everything
76. Dubliners
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
78. Beloved
79. Slaughterhouse-five
80. The Scarlet Letter
81. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
82. The Mists of Avalon
83. Oryx and Crake : a novel
84. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
85. Cloud Atlas
86. The Confusion
87. Lolita
88. Persuasion
89. Northanger Abbey
90. The Catcher in the Rye **(I’ve actually read this one three times, hated it at 14/ loved it at 15/ hated it as a mom)
91. On the Road
92. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
93. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
94. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
95. The Aeneid
96. Watership Down
97. Gravity’s Rainbow
98. The Hobbit
99. In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
100. White Teeth
101. Treasure Island
102. David Copperfield
103. The Three Musketeers

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