LibraryThing's List of Unread Books

[lillibet]

following the example of jelazakazone, because I can't resist a booklist

Behind the cut are the 106 books most often listed on LibraryThing as "unread".

The usual rules apply: bold for read, italic for books started but not finished, strikethrough for books you couldn't stand.

EDIT: greenlily had an extra step, adding an asterisk to those you intend to read.

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 (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex*
Quicksilver
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
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
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
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
The Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas
The Confusion (I don't actually know what this is--care to enlighten me, or should I just google?)
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers*

Comments

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

You hated Wuthering Heights too? I knew there was a reason (other than your adorable daughter) that I liked you so much:) As far as I could tell, it was all about shrubs on the moor. And it was so creepy. I hated it. I never knew anyone else who didn't like it.

On the other hand, I think I was the only one who liked A Scarlet Letter. Go figure.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I tend to find agonizing pretty tedious. I think that's what they have in common for me :)

Doing The Margaret Ghost (http://theatreatfirst.org/archive/2006/tmg/tmg.htm) last year was very interesting in terms of connecting the dots between Hawthorne and women and TSL.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

What, pray tell, is The Margaret Ghost? Should I look for it?

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

If you follow the link, it will take you to my Director's Note. It's an unpublished play about Margaret Fuller that we performed last fall. I really wish the script were publicly available, but that hasn't happened yet.

[bookly.livejournal.com]

What uberlist are these books taken from? "Fiction that people consider worth owning, but not worth reading"?

On a more personal note, I'm amused at how many of these I've started (some multiple times!) and never finished.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

LibraryThing is a site where people can keep track of all the books they own and mark some of them "unread". This list is the top 106 of those.