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My friend alikander found this fun game. Here are 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. I was rather shocked there was no poetry on the list. No one's even faking an interest in poetry? Here's how they play out in my life. I'd say we still only own about half of these since John and I did a pretty thorough egosweep and got rid of even the ones we have read to make room for Arthur's Fire Drill and Goodnight Moon.
Books I read
The Once and Future King—I've never been taken with the Arthur legend, but I read this in high school to say I'd read it.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel—I loved it until the final section and then it stopped being a story for me and became a sermon.
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles—I read it prepping for my GRE's.
Oliver Twist—I saw a Book-It production, which counts!
Les Misérables
Dune—This has been one of my touchstone books. I reread it often.
The Prince
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir—John and I were listening to this on tape as we drove across country. Every time he said, "The hunger! The hunger!" we started looking around for a Subway.
Cryptonomicon—I think it's brilliant but I have trouble rereading it.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved—This came out right after I graduated from college and I felt, as a lit major and feminist, that I should read it, but it never grabbed me.
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves—Cute, but I can't believe people think it makes them look erudite.
Lolita—This is another one we listened to driving cross country. It was so good it took my breath away.
Persuasion
Brave New World
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values—I read it in high school to be with it and never liked it. I was taking a philosophy class at the time and this seemed like pop philosophy.
The Hobbit
Watership Down
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—I can't believe I made it all the way through. I hated it.
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Life of Pi : a novel—This is one of the few "book club" books that I was mesmorized by.
Don Quixote
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Great Expectations
Middlemarch—This was my travel around Europe book in '87. It was so good Eric and I fought over it.
Books I read for school
Gulliver’s Travels
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—I read this book in high school. It was so powerful.
The Catcher in the Rye—I think you either adore Holden or hate him. I'm in the latter camp.
Crime and Punishment—I'm so glad I read this in college because I love it but I haven't been able to reread it on my own.
Moby Dick—I thought it was a hoot.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
1984
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and the Fury—Another brilliant book I haven't been able to read on my own.
The Scarlet Letter
Books I started and never finished
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell—I could try again.
Catch-22
Ulysses—Some day.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books—I got a few chapters in, and I was so bored I quit.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
To the Lighthouse
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present—John read it and told me about it.
On the Road—This is the only one I feel like I should read given the poetry thing and all.
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Books I never read
The Corrections
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
Emma
The Blind Assassin
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Middlesex
Quicksilver
The Historian : a novel
The Fountainhead
Dracula
Anansi Boys
Love in the Time of Cholera
Foucault’s Pendulum
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Aeneid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Books I read
The Once and Future King—I've never been taken with the Arthur legend, but I read this in high school to say I'd read it.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel—I loved it until the final section and then it stopped being a story for me and became a sermon.
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles—I read it prepping for my GRE's.
Oliver Twist—I saw a Book-It production, which counts!
Les Misérables
Dune—This has been one of my touchstone books. I reread it often.
The Prince
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir—John and I were listening to this on tape as we drove across country. Every time he said, "The hunger! The hunger!" we started looking around for a Subway.
Cryptonomicon—I think it's brilliant but I have trouble rereading it.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved—This came out right after I graduated from college and I felt, as a lit major and feminist, that I should read it, but it never grabbed me.
Slaughterhouse-five
Eats, Shoots & Leaves—Cute, but I can't believe people think it makes them look erudite.
Lolita—This is another one we listened to driving cross country. It was so good it took my breath away.
Persuasion
Brave New World
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values—I read it in high school to be with it and never liked it. I was taking a philosophy class at the time and this seemed like pop philosophy.
The Hobbit
Watership Down
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—I can't believe I made it all the way through. I hated it.
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Life of Pi : a novel—This is one of the few "book club" books that I was mesmorized by.
Don Quixote
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Great Expectations
Middlemarch—This was my travel around Europe book in '87. It was so good Eric and I fought over it.
Books I read for school
Gulliver’s Travels
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—I read this book in high school. It was so powerful.
The Catcher in the Rye—I think you either adore Holden or hate him. I'm in the latter camp.
Crime and Punishment—I'm so glad I read this in college because I love it but I haven't been able to reread it on my own.
Moby Dick—I thought it was a hoot.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
1984
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and the Fury—Another brilliant book I haven't been able to read on my own.
The Scarlet Letter
Books I started and never finished
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell—I could try again.
Catch-22
Ulysses—Some day.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books—I got a few chapters in, and I was so bored I quit.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
To the Lighthouse
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present—John read it and told me about it.
On the Road—This is the only one I feel like I should read given the poetry thing and all.
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Books I never read
The Corrections
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
Emma
The Blind Assassin
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Middlesex
Quicksilver
The Historian : a novel
The Fountainhead
Dracula
Anansi Boys
Love in the Time of Cholera
Foucault’s Pendulum
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Aeneid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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