Wednesday, July 9, 2008

LibraryThing's Top Unread Books

I saw this today over at In the Shadow of Mt. TBR and had to do it, too. I'm like that about lists. (Speaking of Mt. TBR, be sure to leave a comment over there for chance to win a Borders gift card!)

Explains Mt. TBR:
These are the top 103 (was 106, but I guess I lost 3 somewhere) books most often marked “unread” (or the equivalent) by LibraryThing’s users. The rules are: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you started but did not finish (DNF), *STAR* the books you’ve read more than once, underline books that are on your TBR pile, and cross out books that you hated.

Here is my list; I've read 47 of the 103 (there really are 103 here; something funky happened with the automatic numbering):

  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  2. Anna Karenina
  3. Crime and Punishment***
  4. The Silmarillion
  5. Life of Pi : a novel
  6. The Name of the Rose
  7. Don Quixote
  8. Moby Dick
  9. Ulysses
  10. Madame Bovary
  11. The Odyssey**
  12. Pride and Prejudice *
  13. Jane Eyre***
  14. A Tale of Two Cities
  15. The Brothers Karamazov
  16. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
  17. War and Peace
  18. Vanity Fair
  19. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  20. The Iliad
  21. Emma

  22. The Blind Assassin
  23. The Kite Runner
  24. Mrs. Dalloway
  25. Great Expectations
  26. American Gods
  27. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  28. Atlas Shrugged
  29. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
  30. Memoirs of a Geisha
  31. Middlesex
  32. Quicksilver
  33. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
  34. The Canterbury Tales*
  35. The Historian : a novel
  36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  37. Love in the Time of Cholera
  38. Brave New World*
  39. The Fountainhead
  40. Foucault’s Pendulum
  41. Middlemarch
  42. Frankenstein*
  43. The Count of Monte Cristo
  44. Dracula
  45. A Clockwork Orange
  46. Anansi Boys
  47. The Once and Future King
  48. The Grapes of Wrath*
  49. The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
  50. 1984*
  51. Angels & Demons
  52. The Inferno*
  53. The Satanic Verses
  54. Sense and Sensibility
  55. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  56. Mansfield Park
  57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  58. To the Lighthouse
  59. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  60. Oliver Twist
  61. Gulliver’s Travels
  62. Les Misérables
  63. The Corrections
  64. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  66. Dune
  67. The Prince
  68. The Sound and the Fury
  69. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
  70. The God of Small Things
  71. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
  72. Cryptonomicon
  73. Neverwhere
  74. A Confederacy of Dunces
  75. A Short History of Nearly Everything
  76. Dubliners
  77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  78. Beloved*
  79. Slaughterhouse-five**
  80. The Scarlet Letter***
  81. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  82. The Mists of Avalon
  83. Oryx and Crake : a novel
  84. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
  85. Cloud Atlas
  86. The Confusion
  87. Lolita
  88. Persuasion
  89. Northanger Abbey
  90. The Catcher in the Rye **
  91. On the Road*
  92. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  93. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
  94. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
  95. The Aeneid
  96. Watership Down**
  97. Gravity’s Rainbow
  98. The Hobbit**
  99. In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
  100. White Teeth
  101. Treasure Island
  102. David Copperfield
  103. The Three Musketeers

1 comment:

S. Krishna said...

Ooh, this list looks like fun - I might have to steal it for my blog as well! :-)