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The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. How they determined this, I don't know.
Bold is for books read. Italics for books started but never finished. Strikethrough is for books found to be unreadable.
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - An interesting book, but I still can't really recommend it.
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment - I should try again.
* Catch-22 - Great book, and still topical.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion - Got twelve pages in and got bored. But not ready to anger everyone else by calling it unreadable
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose - Too slow. Try Foucault's Pendulum instead
* Don Quixote - Cervantes needs an editor
* Moby Dick - So does Melville. (I don't blame Zelig for never reading this.)
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey - Read a prose translation. Does that count?
* 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 - My only effort to read Dickens. Lord it's dull.
* 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 Canterbury Tales Read thme in college. Can't recall much
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New World - Meh
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum - See?
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula - Oh so gothic that it almost hurts.
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King - Stick with Firelord for a good Arthur retelling.
* The Grapes of Wrath - Hated in high school, loved it in college. One of the great books.
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* 1984 - A classic, but I suspect it ages poorly in some ways, given that while much of what it predicted is real, some things died with Stalinism
* Angels & Demons
* The Inferno - Read it in college. Don't recall much.
* 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 - Some of it brilliant, some hamfisted.
* Les Misérables
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - One of the few American mainstream novels written in the last decade worth reading.
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Dune - Read 20 pages and stalled out.
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury - Not all of it but a lot is just too experimental. All of it is depressing. Skip it.
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir - Very good memoir but overrated.
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
* Cryptonomicon - Stop after the first 500 pages. Because that half of the book is brilliant and the rest is a mess.
* Neverwhere - It's Gaiman. I don't like Gaiman. Sorry.
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five - Great book, but not Vonnegut's best.
* The Scarlet Letter - Zzzzzzzzzz
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Snarky, petulant grammar critic makes me look laid back.
* 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
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down - Better than it has any right to be.
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit - We all know it and love it.
* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences - Brilliant and chilling book. Forget the persona of Capote, and read this book.
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers - Dull
batyatoonThe list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thing users. How they determined this, I don't know.
Bold is for books read. Italics for books started but never finished. Strikethrough is for books found to be unreadable.
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - An interesting book, but I still can't really recommend it.
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment - I should try again.
* Catch-22 - Great book, and still topical.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion - Got twelve pages in and got bored. But not ready to anger everyone else by calling it unreadable
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose - Too slow. Try Foucault's Pendulum instead
* Don Quixote - Cervantes needs an editor
* Moby Dick - So does Melville. (I don't blame Zelig for never reading this.)
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey - Read a prose translation. Does that count?
* 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 - My only effort to read Dickens. Lord it's dull.
* 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 Canterbury Tales Read thme in college. Can't recall much
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New World - Meh
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum - See?
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula - Oh so gothic that it almost hurts.
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King - Stick with Firelord for a good Arthur retelling.
* The Grapes of Wrath - Hated in high school, loved it in college. One of the great books.
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* 1984 - A classic, but I suspect it ages poorly in some ways, given that while much of what it predicted is real, some things died with Stalinism
* Angels & Demons
* The Inferno - Read it in college. Don't recall much.
* 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 - Some of it brilliant, some hamfisted.
* Les Misérables
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - One of the few American mainstream novels written in the last decade worth reading.
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Dune - Read 20 pages and stalled out.
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury - Not all of it but a lot is just too experimental. All of it is depressing. Skip it.
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir - Very good memoir but overrated.
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
* Cryptonomicon - Stop after the first 500 pages. Because that half of the book is brilliant and the rest is a mess.
* Neverwhere - It's Gaiman. I don't like Gaiman. Sorry.
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five - Great book, but not Vonnegut's best.
* The Scarlet Letter - Zzzzzzzzzz
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Snarky, petulant grammar critic makes me look laid back.
* 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
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down - Better than it has any right to be.
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit - We all know it and love it.
* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences - Brilliant and chilling book. Forget the persona of Capote, and read this book.
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers - Dull
