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goldenmeanOh, what the hell, considering we're on a book theme. Have a meme.
Meme of unread books
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, italicize 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) - This reminds me, I still need to read the follow up collection of short stories.
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)Long time ago, and never again.
Life of Pi: a novel (94)
The name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) - Started it in a fit of hubris in junior high to prove I could. I couldn't. Of course, I was still well into Piers Anthony at this point, so maybe I should give it another shot with more refined tastes.
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83) - Not a fan.
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) - This is probably the best book I have ever read that also desperately made me want to kill myself
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73) - I don't know why I read so much Jane Austen, as I didn't actually like any of it. I recognize it as being good as an abstract concept, but not for me.
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70) - Forced to in high school, and much like everything I was forced to read, hated it
American gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) - As I always say when this book is brought up: The only reason I finished this book is that if I hadn't, it meant Ayn Rand had won, and I just couldn't allow that to happen.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66) - Finished it for bookclub. Pretty much what a bookclub book should be. Good book that I never would have read on my own devices.
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65) - Not what I wanted it to be.
The Canterbury tales (64) - I honestly can't remember if I ever read all of them, but I know I intended to after reading a selection of them in high school
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) - Mmmm, dystopia
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59) - Long time ago, it's on my repurchase list.
Anansi boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) - High school requirement and hence Bleh.
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55) - See above Jane Austen commentary
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) - This is actually beginning to disturb me. Was I abducted by some Jane Austen cult and forced to read all of her books and have just suppressed this knowledge?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54) - Forced to in high school
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (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 (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46) - HAH! I *haven't* read this one. In your face Jane Austen
Northanger abbey (46) - Or this one, I shall escape your clutches yet.
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 everything (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
Meme of unread books
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, italicize 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) - This reminds me, I still need to read the follow up collection of short stories.
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)Long time ago, and never again.
Life of Pi: a novel (94)
The name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) - Started it in a fit of hubris in junior high to prove I could. I couldn't. Of course, I was still well into Piers Anthony at this point, so maybe I should give it another shot with more refined tastes.
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83) - Not a fan.
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) - This is probably the best book I have ever read that also desperately made me want to kill myself
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73) - I don't know why I read so much Jane Austen, as I didn't actually like any of it. I recognize it as being good as an abstract concept, but not for me.
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70) - Forced to in high school, and much like everything I was forced to read, hated it
American gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) - As I always say when this book is brought up: The only reason I finished this book is that if I hadn't, it meant Ayn Rand had won, and I just couldn't allow that to happen.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66) - Finished it for bookclub. Pretty much what a bookclub book should be. Good book that I never would have read on my own devices.
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65) - Not what I wanted it to be.
The Canterbury tales (64) - I honestly can't remember if I ever read all of them, but I know I intended to after reading a selection of them in high school
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) - Mmmm, dystopia
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59) - Long time ago, it's on my repurchase list.
Anansi boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) - High school requirement and hence Bleh.
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55) - See above Jane Austen commentary
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) - This is actually beginning to disturb me. Was I abducted by some Jane Austen cult and forced to read all of her books and have just suppressed this knowledge?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54) - Forced to in high school
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (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 (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46) - HAH! I *haven't* read this one. In your face Jane Austen
Northanger abbey (46) - Or this one, I shall escape your clutches yet.
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 everything (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
