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Books unread reread and unreadable (meme)
From [info]laura47 .
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

(I corrected some of the capitalization. why why why did the capitalization get messed up? and i changed "couldn't finish" to "didn't finish" above, because they have different meanings and didn't is more inclusive)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)

Life of Pi: a novel (94) (TBR)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91) [I got somewhere in volume 1 during high school Spanish, and read some other bits of volume 2.]
Moby Dick [Something happens there eventually, right?  It's not just all a guy telling you about whaling, right?]
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
 
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70) [Magwitch should have killed Pip on page 20 or so.]
American Gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) (I read about 2 paragraphs of the Really Long Speach, but that shouldn't count as starting it.)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) [And the other 2 books in the Baroque Cycle too.  Can anybody explain to me what the plot was about?]
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65) [Disappointing, but not quite enough for a whole strikethrough.]

The Canterbury tales (64) [I keep thinking I'll get through the rest of them some day, but I had a hard time staying interested in the Knight's Tale, and my Middle English isn't very good at all.]

The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57) [Actually, I have no idea whether I've read this or not.]
The Grapes of Wrath (57) [Couldn't Steinbeck have just arranged for somebody to hit me over the head with a migrant worker till I cried?]
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55) (TBR)
Sense and sensibility (55) (I don't honestly remember a thing about it, though.)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53) (I read the first bit of it, I think...)
Les misérables (53) (Gave up around the chapter where the village priest covers for Valjean.)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
Dune (51)
The prince (51) (also le petit prince.  but that's different.  is there a mashup?)
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51) (I wish Zinn had written the book that he'd like to read, rather than the book that he'd like everybody else to read.)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)

A confederacy of dunces (50) (TBR)
A short history of nearly everything (50) (TBR)
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49)
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Cloud atlas (47)
The confusion (46) [I almost didn't bold this one until I remembered that that's what volume 2 of the Baroque Cycle was called. ]
Lolita (46) (I read the first page, but got distracted.)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)

White Teeth (44)

Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
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Cold mountain (43)
Robinson Crusoe (43)
(No title) (43)
The bell jar (43)
The secret life of bees (43)
Beowulf : a new verse translation (43)
The plague (43)
The Master and Margarita (43)
(No title) (42)
Atonement : a novel (42)
The handmaid's tale (42) (TBR)
Lady Chatterley's lover (41)
Underworld (41) (TBR)
(No title) (41)
Little Women (41) (Jo marries WHO? WTF.)
A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes (41)
Stardust (41)
Jude the obscure (41)
The chronicles of Narnia (40)
Possession : a romance (40)
Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal (40)

(No title) (40)
Never let me go (40)
The trial (40) (Actually, did Kafka finish this one?  I read the entire volume...)
Kafka on the shore (40)
Bleak House (40)
(No title) (40)
Sons and lovers (40)
Alias Grace (39)
The Arabian nights (39)
Baudolino (39)
Confessions (39) (If they mean Augustine's confessions, sure.)
The great Gatsby (39)
To kill a mockingbird (39)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (39)
The alchemist (39)
Candide, or, Optimism (39)
Snow falling on cedars (39)
Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story (39)
Midnight's children (39)
White Oleander (39)
A passage to India (39)
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and ... (39)
The house of the seven gables (39)
The lovely bones : a novel (38)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (38)
The amber spyglass (38)
The histories (38)
Swann's way (38) (Got about 5 pages in and decided I wasn't up for that kind of commitment at the time.)
The shadow of the wind (38)
Fahrenheit 451 (38)
Good omens (38)
Running with scissors : a memoir (38)
Everything is illuminated : a novel (38)
The divine comedy (38) (Skimmed a lot of Purgatorio and Paradiso)
Paradise lost (38)
The English patient (38)
Uncle Tom's cabin (38)
The Origin of Species (37)
The plot against America (37)
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (37)
Silas Marner (37)
The hours (37)
Prodigal summer : a novel (37)
The bonesetter's daughter (37)
Doctor Zhivago (37)
The shipping news (36) (Does the Canadian health-care system not cover antidepressants for Newfies?)
The phantom of the Opera (36)
The portrait of a lady (36)
Blink : the power of thinking without thinking (36)
Heart of darkness (36)
The Robber Bride (36)
The last of the Mohicans (36)
The age of innocence (36)
The system of the world (35) (See above.)
Tropic of cancer (35)
The mayor of Casterbridge (35)
The Gormenghast novels (35) (I read the first one...)
The gunslinger (35)
The golden compass (35)
The Republic of Plato (35)
The remains of the day (35)
Cat's eye (35)
Eragon (35)
A game of thrones (35)
Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy (34)
The island of the day before (34)
The good earth (34)
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel (34) (My mom wants me to read this one so bad that I'm afraid to mention it.)
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at ... (34)
A farewell to arms (34)
East of Eden (34)
The book thief (34)
Animal farm : a fairy story (34)
For whom the bell tolls (34)
Pattern recognition (34) (TBR)
Infinite jest : a novel (33)
The Decameron (33)
The mill on the Floss (33)
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (33) (Though reading any part of Tristam Shandy should count as reading the whole.)
Me talk pretty one day (33)
The other Boleyn girl (32)
The Eyre affair (32)
Labyrinth (32)
The jungle (32) (TBR)
The complete works (32) (whose?)
Snow crash (32)
The idiot (32) (The first ten pages or so.)
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves (32)
Naked lunch (32)
Ivanhoe (32)
The return of the native (32)
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid (32)
(No title) (31)
Song of Solomon (31) (Haven't read the Morrison one.  Does the "Song of Songs, which is Solomon's" count?)
Far from the madding crowd (31)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (31)
The left hand of darkness (31)
Tender is the night (31)
Moll Flanders (31)
A tree grows in Brooklyn (31)
The witching hour : a novel (31)
The thirteenth tale : a novel (31)
Girl with a pearl earring (31)
Confessions of an ugly stepsister (31)
Invisible man (31) (The lack of definite article means Ellison?  Then yes.)
As I lay dying (31)
Eldest (30)
Neuromancer (30)
Empire falls (30)
Villette (30)
The tipping point : how little things can make a big differe... (30)
The moonstone (30)
The known world (30)
The Wind in the Willows (30) (My dad read it to me when I was little. That counts, right?)
Notes from the underground (30)
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea (30)
Night. Foreword by François Mauriac. Translated from the Fr... (30)
The Joy Luck Club (30)
The Martian chronicles (30)
(No title) (30)
The fortress of solitude : a novel (30)
Extremely loud & incredibly close (29)
Siddhartha (29)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, .... (29)
Lord Jim (29)
The glass bead game : (Magister Ludi) (29)
The princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true ... (29) (Alas, I've only read Goldman's abridged "Good Parts" version. ;) )
Their eyes were watching God : a novel (29)
Walden (29)
Gilead (29)
The Jane Austen book club (29)
Of human bondage (29)
The art of war (28)
A million little pieces (28)
Absalom, Absalom! (28)
An instance of the fingerpost (28)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer (28)
The War of the Worlds (28)
Mere Christianity : a revised and amplified edition, with a ... (28)
Son of a witch : a novel (28)
Mirror mirror (28)
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone (28)
Stranger in a strange land (28)
The stranger (28)
If on a winter's night a traveler (28)
All quiet on the western front (28)
My Antonia (28)
A room with a view (28)
Light in August (28)
The sun also rises (28)
Dune messiah (28)
The crying of lot 49 (28)
The namesake (28)
The wind-up bird chronicle (27)
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (27)
The bonfire of the vanities (27)
That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups (27)
The Dante Club : a novel (27)
The heart is a lonely hunter (27)
On writing : a memoir of the craft (27)
The color purple : a novel (27)
Steppenwolf (27)
The woman in white (27)
Women in love (27)
Mason & Dixon (27)
Gone with the wind (26)
Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel (26)
America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction... (26)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (26)
John Adams (26)
Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of ... (26)
The red tent (26)
The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century (26)

(9:57: edited for correctness.)
(10:16: added books 107...300.)
(10:29: edited for more correctness.)


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