The Unread Book meme

[supercheesegirl]

"These are the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing's users." (Why 106?) The ones I've read are in bold.

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 (I read *most* of it!)
The Odyssey
Pride And Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale Of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
War And Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (Required high school reading.)
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 (Unfortunately.)
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (I cried! So upsetting!)
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once And Future King
The Grapes Of Wrath (Required high school reading.)
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
1984 (Hated it.)
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 (It's the next Woolf on my list.)
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 (and it fucked my shit right up.)
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
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation
The Mists Of Avalon (avoiding it, actually, since I saw the TV miniseries.)
Oryx And Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher In The Rye
On The Road
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

41 total. Not as good as I would like, but better than Jon!

I love that all of Jane Austen's books are on this list. People should actually read those.

Comments

[lawgrrl-23.livejournal.com]

Hated 1984??? Shocking! I lurve that book, but, actually, I know a lot of people who loathe it. Come to think of it, I haven't read that one for a few years now. Seems like I'm due :)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I like books that are happy!

[latinismyramen.livejournal.com]

ok, I'll pass over for now that you have not read the Odyssey, Iliad, OR the Aeneid, and just tell you that The Name of the Rose and The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay are two of my favorite books. Anna Karennina is Dan's favorite book. And I would highly recommend them. :)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the one who speaks Greek. :)

Is The Name of the Rose anything like Foucault's Pendulum? Because I absolutely hated that book. Adventures of K & C and Anna are on my someday list.

[latinismyramen.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Foucault's, but Dan did and I don't think he liked it, but The Name of the Rose is very different, I think, and it's hysterically funny, if you get the dry wit.

and, silly. They have TRANSLATIONS of those books! Not to mention, the Aeneid is Latin, not Greek. Maybe I'll send you one, would that be okay?

I noticed you haven't read Strange&Norrell - I enjoyed it okay, but there was no reason for it to be that long.

Thanks for this post, btw, I am all excited about books now!

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

You are welcome to send me random epics whenever you like! I definitely liked Gilgamesh a lot more than I thought I would (ie, I freakin' adored it), so I'm open.

And, I mean, I know the stories, read some of the plays, just haven't read the original Homer. Even in translation. :)

I think my mom read Strange & Norrell. She said the same thing about the length. I think in this case I'm going to err on the side of "not worth my time".

Yay books!! :)

[lizabethanqueen]

I'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay right now and it is so good. It's long but it goes by quickly. For some reason it seems like something Dr. Roth would make everyone read in one of his classes....

[piscosubito.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I could do this meme, as I think it would be too embarrassing to admit I haven't read very many of those.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

It's kind of an English-major sort of meme. Although there are some more mainstream types of books on there, like The Kite Runner, which was excellent.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

41 total. Not as good as I would like, but better than Jon!

I scrunch my face at you. [scrunch]

I think you'd really like Strange & Norrell.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

[scrunch back]

Well, Jane Austen does make a significant contribution to my total. I only come out ahead of you because I've read all her books.

My mom read Strange & Norrell, I think. Not sure why I haven't picked it up. Maybe it just looks very large.

[handmadedark.livejournal.com]

My read-list is a bit different, but I landed on the same number: 41.