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[sprinklethief]

wow, you can tell i was in AP english classes, lol

librarything's top 106 unread books

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.


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
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The 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 sidenote - holy crap, read by hugh laurie? really?!?!?! ::drool::
*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
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 : a novel
*****1984
*Angels & Demons
*The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
*The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
*The Picture of Dorian Gray (fitting, all things considered)
Mansfield Park
*****One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (one of the few books that i liked the movie too!)
To the Lighthouse what can i say, i love virginia woolf
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 : a memoir
The God of Small Things
*A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present i LOVE howard zinn. i'm sure that shocks y'all
Cryptonomicon
*Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
***Slaughterhouse-five i miss kurt vonnegut
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon required reading for anyone who lived with my mother
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
***********Lolita yeah, i'm a perv. shut up.
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
****On the Road yeeeeahhhh!
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

does this mean i'm well read?

Comments

[paroxysm-cycle.livejournal.com]

i went to a podunk high school that couldn't really afford decent books oftentimes. in college i seemed to always end up in english classes that cover books i already own or have already read, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mean by you, of course, but by society at large :) I'm always amazed when I meet people who 'don't like to read'. eep! it's so foreign a concept to me.