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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.
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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.