The unread book meme

[akk]

Ganked from solo: the unread book meme
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. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish.


- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Anna Karenina [in German]
- Crime and Punishment
- Catch-22
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Wuthering Heights
- The Silmarillion
- Life of Pi : a novel
- The Name of the Rose [in German]
- Don Quixote [in German]
- Moby Dick [in German]
- Ulysses
- Madame Bovary
- The Odyssey [in German]
- Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Eyre
- The Tale of Two Cities
- The Brothers Karamazov [in German]
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
- War and Peace [in German]
- Vanity Fair
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- The Iliad [in German]
- Emma [in German]
- 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
- Quicksilver [in German]
- 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 [in German]
- Brave New World
- The Fountainhead
- Foucault's Pendulum [in German]
- Middlemarch
- Frankenstein [in German]
- The Count of Monte Cristo [in German]
- Dracula [in German]
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anansi Boys
- The Once and Future King [in German]
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
- 1984 [in German]
- Angels & Demons [the book confirmed my opinion that Dan Brown deserves to have the same initials as Deutsche Bahn! *shudder*]
- The Inferno
- The Satanic Verses [in German]
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Mansfield Park
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [if there ever was a depressing book, it's this one]
- To the Lighthouse
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Oliver Twist [in German]
- Gulliver's Travels [in German]
- Les Misérables [in German]
- The Corrections
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay [actually watched the movie. Liked that. Couldn't get a hold on the novel, though.]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Dune [in German][***purrrrrrrr***]
- 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 [I know half a dozen books by that title. Need the author to say if I read it.]
- Slaughterhouse-five
- The Scarlet Letter
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- The Mists of Avalon [in German]
- Oryx and Crake : a novel
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Cloud Atlas
- The Confusion
- Lolita [in German]
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- The Catcher in the Rye
- On the Road
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame [in German]
- Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything [in German]
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
- The Aeneid [in German]
- Watership Down
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The Hobbit [in German]
- In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
- White Teeth
- Treasure Island
- David Copperfield
- The Three Musketeers

The majority of my school reads were German classics and modern classics, such as Kleist, Goethe, Schiller and Brecht; in connection with the latter also quite a few of the Greek tragedies such as Antigone, etc. pp. The list is highly geared towards US/UK content.

Comments

[sabriel75.insanejournal.com]

We too had to read Greek tragedies... and I have read Kleist and Goethe but not Schiller or Brecht. But will rectify that soon because you have reminded me of them. Also, I adored Antigone for some reason. You might like Watership Down. Try it. I would love to see what you think.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Watership Down was actually on my book shopping list for a while, but whenever I decided to pick it up, I saw the rabbits on the cover and just put it back onto the store shelf. :)