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glittertiggerFrom lathany. 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/uni, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. 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 seem to have read 50 of these which seems fair enough (and only two of those were because my school made me). Embarrassingly I do have seven of the others sitting on my shelves unread. I've only just got Freakonomics so am expecting to finish that one soon.
lathany. 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/uni, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. 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. The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina*
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World*
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye*
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange*
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula*
Dubliners*
Dune*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves*
Emma*
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein*
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things*
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre*
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park*
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon*
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984*
Northanger Abbey*
The Odyssey*
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion*
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Pride and Prejudice*
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility*
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles*
The Time Traveler’s Wife*
To the Lighthouse*
Treasure Island*
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair*
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth*
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina*
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World*
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye*
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange*
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula*
Dubliners*
Dune*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves*
Emma*
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein*
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things*
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre*
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park*
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon*
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984*
Northanger Abbey*
The Odyssey*
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion*
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Pride and Prejudice*
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility*
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles*
The Time Traveler’s Wife*
To the Lighthouse*
Treasure Island*
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair*
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth*
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
I seem to have read 50 of these which seems fair enough (and only two of those were because my school made me). Embarrassingly I do have seven of the others sitting on my shelves unread. I've only just got Freakonomics so am expecting to finish that one soon.
