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A most peculiar mademoiselle ([personal profile] axeslade) wrote2007-12-16 09:03 pm

Hmm...



These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users as of 9/30/07. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina Mean to, got distracted by His Dark Materials
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights Actually just got interrupted by Voyager, keep meanign to start it again
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice Keep meaning to read this...
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair Might try again now that I've seen the film and might be able to wade through the treacle
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations A condensed version for English, might read the real one someday
American Gods Want to
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex Want to read this and the last one
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West Always meant to start it, checked it out and it just sat there
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera Another one I checked out and never started
Brave New Worl
The Fountainhead Another one that never got started...
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein Should try again...
The Count of Monte Cristo Want to read this
Dracula Same
A clockwork orange Ditto
Anansi Boys Mm hmm<
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The poisonwood Bible : a novel Mom picked this up for me, really should give it a try
1984
Angels and 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 God, so many run on sentences!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's travels
Les Misérables (a condensed version...500 odd pages)
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 need to read it again
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 keep meaning to start this one
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter Finally got sick of the paragraphs of description that went no where two chapters from the end
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas
The Confusion
Lolita Want to read this one
Persuasion
Northanger abbey
The catcher in the rye Read it, OMFG never again
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 I have this somewhere...
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers