Grabbed off Yiqing's blog. Useful to show how good books are often unread, and how many good books you haven't read.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today, 30 September 2007). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (Frankly this sounds like a spoof of one of Austen's novels)
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte's only novel, but I really don't fancy this kinda stuff)
The Silmarillion (I finished this, interestingly, but it definitely wasn't as good as the Lord of the Rings)
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (I'm quite interested in farcial stuff, including how Quixotic is an adjective)
Moby Dick (I haven't read this yet, and I don't intend to because I don't like the whole thing about fishing for a whale...)
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey(Homer's epics are definitely worth a read, I've read the condensed prose forms, but one day I'll do the original versions! I presume this is not the novel...)
Pride and Prejudice* (It's my lit text -.- I don't have much of a choice as to whether I read it or not)
Jane Eyre (I've heard how good this is, but really, not interested xD)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace (It was good while it was lasted, but it lasted for too long.)
Vanity Fair (Another good book, I've heard, but I don't seem interested just by the title.)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad (Refer to what I said about The Odyssey.)
Emma (Quite seriously I can't stand too much Austen, so, no.)
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (I've never touched a Dickens novel in my life. I expect this to be the first.)
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha (My brother has this, but the genre unfazes me.)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (I have this book at home, never actually read it.)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera (Supposedly really good, I will get down to it after A levels.)
Brave New World (
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (Familiar title, but I gave up after a few chapters, found it very boring.)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula (So slow and draggy that I gave up.)
A Clockwork Orange (I've always thought that this was overhyped, but a Wikipedia on it shows it to be quite interesting. Might read it.)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 (Again, George Orwell.)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses (Given the number of bounties on Salman Rushdie's head, I think this is worth a read.)
Sense and Sensibility (I cannot stand too much Austen, seriously.)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Pretty ok, but quite dark.)
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (I have this book at home too! Shall bring it to BMT to read or something.)
Oliver Twist
Les Misérables* (EXCELLENT novel by Victor Hugo. He did justice to the French. For once. xD I love the musical too.)
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (I believe this to be an overhyped piece of literature.)
Dune
The Prince (Given how thin this is, I'm quite surprised I never completed it, but then again I never believed in the methods of consolidating power Machiavelli belives in.)
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir (The movie sucked. Based on that I wouldn't read this.
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces (Interestingly, it's quite good, funny, and a good laugh after all the dark reflective novels you often read.)
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 (seriously. -.-")
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey (WHAT IS UP WITH AUSTEN?!?)
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 (Quite an enjoyable read, didn't see literary value in it though.)
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit* (Any Tolkien fan worth his salt would have read this.)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island (Never read it, despite it's supposed classic nature.)
David Copperfield (Ditto above.)
The Three Musketeers (Ditto above again.)
Bastard out of Carolina