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13Oct, 2007
Saturday
03:35PM ET

saw this over on katie and sarah's blogs and am now just thinking about it as the weather's turned cold. curling up on the couch with a good book while the nut is asleep or otherwise occupied sounds like heaven.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of some days ago). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list. Any title left untouched you consider not worthy of reading.

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: 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
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 (eh, seen the movie loads)
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984
Angels and 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 nighttime
Dune**** (too many times to count)
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 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: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the art of motocycle maintenance: an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers

there are a lot of books here that i want to read and a lot that i don't care to. i guess i just know what i'll like and what i won't like. granted, KP has read a lot of the books that i don't want to read. we balance out well that way :)

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#1

 posted by alice

14Oct, 2007
Sunday
05:16AM ET

Wow, that's fascinating!

#2

 posted by schrodinger

14Oct, 2007
Sunday
11:25PM ET

So many great books - so little time.

#3

 posted by claire

15Oct, 2007
Monday
02:46AM ET

that is indeed fascinating!

i am surprised to see pride and prejudice on that list! so readable!

#4

 posted by mom

15Oct, 2007
Monday
11:03AM ET

42 Read so far. So many books, so little time.

#5

 posted by Katie

15Oct, 2007
Monday
12:49PM ET

You must get on Time Traveler's Wife and Lolita ~ those are my highest rec's for your "to read" list, as indicated by the perimeters of this list. In your spare time. Of course.
;-)