I stole from Chellbian. Sorry.
"What we have here is 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. RED are the ones you've read, BLUE are the ones you read
for school, GREEN are the ones you started but didn't finish."
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 (Spanish class... yeah)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice (In my defense, I plan on finishing this one, ok. I'll probably even read a bit of it tonight.)
Jane Eyre
The 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 (I don't think we read the entire thing though, I might be mistaken. Actually, I think I am mistaken.)
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 (I wanted to read it and I just so happened to have the opportunity to use it for school as well.)
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 (I don't remember a thing about it though.)
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Another one I wanted to read and could use for school at the same time.)
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 God in the Night-Time
Dune
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 (I think I just bought this.)
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 Motorcycle 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
Um. I've read 8. I've tried to read and additional 11.
And I plan on making it 9 to 10 there.
Also, there are some books on that list that I plan on reading one day.
I'm not just bullshitting you there.
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That's my list, I think. I plan on reading a lot of these books someday.
Ohh, much better than me! Mine's all BLACK! muhahahahaha
Mainly because I read stuff for a purpose (and even then they gather dust).
Does textbooks count as reading? Ahhh - I think they turned me off and made me become the lazy person I am today!
You've read many more books than I have.
I do not like reading for actual purpose at times. I like to escape reality.
'Cause, you know, reality sucks sometimes.
Or do you cry because the book is so awful?
Sure...
:-P