book meme, yo

Edit: okay, my italics are coral for some unknown reason

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand:

And I have starred books I want to read.

*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
*Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
*Moby Dick
*Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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
*Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
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
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
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
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

wow I am a terrible book-finisher.

OMG FAVE BOOKS:

Cloud Atlas

The Poisonwood Bible

The Time Traveler’s Wife (if you do not cry you are a robot or maybe just an awful person)

The Catcher in the Rye

BOOKS THAT ARE TERRIBLE:

Frankenstein- jeez Frank why you gotta be such an emo

Watership Down- no good message in this book except rabbits need mental help

The Hobbit- why would you ever think this was a good idea for a book

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