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Thanks, Debby, for this. Here are 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. :)
I'll just comment if I feel the need, and leave alone those I haven't read.
The Once and Future King—II loved this. My dad is a very black and white thinker, so we describe him as one of the ants that Wort meets: things are either done or not done.
The Poisonwood Bible : I found this very powerful; there has always been a fascination for me in systems that ask adherents to subjugate the very urges that make us human. Bad results, every time.
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles—I read it because I have read woefully few canonical works. It was long and depressing, but I enjoyed the setting.
Oliver Twist—never read it, never even saw the film.
Les Misérables - the musical, alas, does not count.
Dune—How can I even be from the NW and not have read this?
The Prince
Angela’s Ashes
Cryptonomicon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - again, the film doesn't count.
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five - read it in my fifteen-year-old zeal for all things Vonnegut. I need to go back and revisit.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - I know what it's about, but eh.
Lolita - visually, sensually and linguistically opulent.
Persuasion
Brave New World - quiet, but a shout.
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I know, I didn't read it. Shocking, eh?
The Hobbit - read it first at age 9 or so, then many times since. A favorite.
Watership Down
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights - I own it, but haven't read past the first 12 or so pages. I feel somewhat guilty.
Life of Pi
Don Quixote
The Time Traveler’s Wife - read it while wrestling through being very ill with panic attacks about four years ago. It was intriguing. It's going to be a movie soon, but I don't know yet if I'll go see it. I hate when my vision of a book is eviscerated by a poorly executed commercial movie.
Great Expectations
Middlemarch
Gulliver’s Travels
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - again, movie.
The Catcher in the Rye - I just didn't get it. What was this book about? No resonance for me at all.
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick -Read it because my husband was reading it in graduate school. Deep somehow, but I wasn't always sure how.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey - Time to go back to this one. Especially after O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre - I own this Bronte, too, and must read it soon.
The Tale of Two Cities - it was the best of novels, it was the worst of novels, but only because I was forced to read it for high school lit class.
The Brothers Karamazov - I suppose the Flying ones aren't up for consideration?
The Canterbury Tales - read a few as a kid, from a collection we had.
1984 - oh, the rat scene wigged me out!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Grapes of Wrath - I was sad to think of all the Warner Brothers cartoons I had watched that turned out to be making fun of Lenny.
The Sound and the Fury
The Scarlet Letter
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Catch-22 - again, consumed in my lust-for-Kurt phase.
Ulysses
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad - I think I read this when I read the Odyssey.
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran - I own it. Maybe I should give it a try.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
To the Lighthouse
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present - I love Howard Zinn. One of the college books I kept.
On the Road - Debby, it is ALL poetry, all about the use of words. Harsh and stark and chewy.
Freakonomics
The Corrections
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
Emma
The Blind Assassin
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Middlesex - another quiet book that will take you places. Read it.
Quicksilver
The Historian : a novel
The Fountainhead
Dracula
Anansi Boys
Love in the Time of Cholera
Foucault’s Pendulum
Angels & Demons - I own it, and I think it's a good potboiler with interesting ideas. It's not War and Peace, but it's not Sex and the City, either.
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Mists of Avalon - this is a very long book, but overall I found it fascinating, detailed, mystical, and captivating.
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Aeneid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I'll just comment if I feel the need, and leave alone those I haven't read.
The Once and Future King—II loved this. My dad is a very black and white thinker, so we describe him as one of the ants that Wort meets: things are either done or not done.
The Poisonwood Bible : I found this very powerful; there has always been a fascination for me in systems that ask adherents to subjugate the very urges that make us human. Bad results, every time.
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles—I read it because I have read woefully few canonical works. It was long and depressing, but I enjoyed the setting.
Oliver Twist—never read it, never even saw the film.
Les Misérables - the musical, alas, does not count.
Dune—How can I even be from the NW and not have read this?
The Prince
Angela’s Ashes
Cryptonomicon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - again, the film doesn't count.
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five - read it in my fifteen-year-old zeal for all things Vonnegut. I need to go back and revisit.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - I know what it's about, but eh.
Lolita - visually, sensually and linguistically opulent.
Persuasion
Brave New World - quiet, but a shout.
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I know, I didn't read it. Shocking, eh?
The Hobbit - read it first at age 9 or so, then many times since. A favorite.
Watership Down
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights - I own it, but haven't read past the first 12 or so pages. I feel somewhat guilty.
Life of Pi
Don Quixote
The Time Traveler’s Wife - read it while wrestling through being very ill with panic attacks about four years ago. It was intriguing. It's going to be a movie soon, but I don't know yet if I'll go see it. I hate when my vision of a book is eviscerated by a poorly executed commercial movie.
Great Expectations
Middlemarch
Gulliver’s Travels
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - again, movie.
The Catcher in the Rye - I just didn't get it. What was this book about? No resonance for me at all.
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick -Read it because my husband was reading it in graduate school. Deep somehow, but I wasn't always sure how.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey - Time to go back to this one. Especially after O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre - I own this Bronte, too, and must read it soon.
The Tale of Two Cities - it was the best of novels, it was the worst of novels, but only because I was forced to read it for high school lit class.
The Brothers Karamazov - I suppose the Flying ones aren't up for consideration?
The Canterbury Tales - read a few as a kid, from a collection we had.
1984 - oh, the rat scene wigged me out!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Grapes of Wrath - I was sad to think of all the Warner Brothers cartoons I had watched that turned out to be making fun of Lenny.
The Sound and the Fury
The Scarlet Letter
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Catch-22 - again, consumed in my lust-for-Kurt phase.
Ulysses
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad - I think I read this when I read the Odyssey.
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran - I own it. Maybe I should give it a try.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
To the Lighthouse
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present - I love Howard Zinn. One of the college books I kept.
On the Road - Debby, it is ALL poetry, all about the use of words. Harsh and stark and chewy.
Freakonomics
The Corrections
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
Emma
The Blind Assassin
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Middlesex - another quiet book that will take you places. Read it.
Quicksilver
The Historian : a novel
The Fountainhead
Dracula
Anansi Boys
Love in the Time of Cholera
Foucault’s Pendulum
Angels & Demons - I own it, and I think it's a good potboiler with interesting ideas. It's not War and Peace, but it's not Sex and the City, either.
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Mists of Avalon - this is a very long book, but overall I found it fascinating, detailed, mystical, and captivating.
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Aeneid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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