I picked this meme up from Writing Grandma’s Book. Below are the top 106 books tagged “unread” in Librarything. I am so not in the loop with other book bloggers, because LibraryThing takes most of my online time, so I am not tagging anyone. I do read other book blogs, but I rarely comment, so I am sure anyone I pick would not know who I am, or be here to read it! Anyone who wants to join in, please do, and let me know!
The rules:Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.
Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
* Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment—but in high school, and I don’t remember much; I liked it, though
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
The Odyssey—read parts for different classes
* Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre--I tried to read this when I was about 13, and I just didn't get it; I might get back to it one of these days to try again
A Tale of Two Cities—I started reading this in earnest the night before it was due in high school, and got about 250 pages in; I meant to get back to it, but never did
The Brothers Karamazov—I read about half of this last year, and then just lost interest; maybe it was just a slumpish time, though
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace — I read the first 600 pages earlier this year and then started reading other things; I am planning on getting back to it soon, though—I really was enjoying it!
Vanity Fair—technically I have started this one, but only like 30 pages, so I am not counting it
The Time Traveller’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
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
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
1984
Angels & Demons—I have no interest whatsoever in this one
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
The God of Small Things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon—no interest in this one, either, although I do like Stephenson; I prefer his science fiction
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five--I think
The Scarlet Letter—I read just enough of this to convince my high school English teacher I read the whole thing; after hearing it discussed on NPR’s In Character segment, I am thinking about trying again, though
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit—I loved The Lord of the Rings, but I just couldn’t bring myself to care about this book
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Interesting, if not terribly useful. I am not updating my TBR list based on this exercise (No more adding to the list! Take a deep breath and step away from the bookstore, Susan...), but it is fun to see how my reading compares to what others are reading, or planning to read.
