This list of books is (or was at one time) the most unread on LibraryThing.com. The meme asks readers to categorize the books using a variation on the key below.
Key
Asterisk – I own the book
Bold – I’ve read the book
Italics – I’ve started the book
Stricken – I hated the book
Underline – on my current TBR list
THE BOOKS:
* 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
*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
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
* 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 day
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 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
* In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers
TOTALS
Books read: 21
Books owned: 51
Books hated: 1
Books TBR: 15 (really all of them not already read)
Books not finished: 5
{ 2 comments }
I’m not terribly fond of Wuthering Heights, either–I think everyone in it needs a good smack.
For the ones not finished, did you dislike them, or did you just get distracted by other things?
Chris
Thanks for the comment, Chris.
I just got distracted with Emma, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Wicked. Love in the Time of Cholera was rejected by my book club as too sexual, so I put it off for a while. I attempted Beloved the summer I got married and was put off by the writing style. All of that being said, I plan to finish all of them. Check out my picks for the Wind Up Book Chronicle Challenge.
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