Unread books

[queenbarwench]

This list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable. Stolen from kc_anathema.

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 (Read after seeing Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, ended up doing my English Lit coursework on a comparison between this and some awful fanfic-esque sequel written by someone else. Got an A)
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 (this was for my English GCSE. I never actually read the last 5 chapters)
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 (read the first 2 pages in class because I had to, but really, WTF??)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World (keep meaning to read this one...)
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (technically I've not read this, but its plot has been shamelessly stolen by at least two trashy romances that I have read)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (very definitely a children's book and hard-going in places)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984 (again, English GCSE book. I was so depressed by the time I got to the end of part one that I couldn't read any more. I did the exam on the strength of the film and the Letts Notes)
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 ( Listened to the (abridged) audiobook, because my flatmate needed to study it. Victorians had stupid concepts of morality)
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 (read it because I thought I should, discovered I loved it. Got stuck on Dune Messiah, the tiny slim second volume)
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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Educational and funny - should be required reading in schools.)
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 : an inquiry into values (Got about two-thirds of the way through before it stopped holding my interest)
The Aeneid
Watership Down (I think I was twelve when I read this, but I still remember details and imagery that weren't present in the cartoon film)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (a great tale, if you can only get past the Worst First Chapter In The History Of The World EVAR)
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Hmmm, more than I thought, but probably less than I should have read. I recognise most of the titles and could probably name most of the authors. It's interesting to see so much Neil Gaimen on the list, but I understand why. I read his short stories collection, Smoke and Mirrors, and have only been more depressed by 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale.

Comments

[nymphish.livejournal.com]

I have to say I was surprised by how many you haven't read *grins*

...maybe it was just me that got bored and read The Illiad when I was about 11...

Oh, and Anansi Boys is actually a pretty decent book - read it the other week and it's not a bad read :)

However, I will never read The Silmarillion - not only because I can't spell it, but because the 3 times I've tried, I fell asleep with a headache by page 2.

Bah :)