Another Books Meme

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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn'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.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117) The fact that more people haven't read this book pretty much explains the initial public support for the Iraq war.
One hundred years of solitude (115) Did I read it? It's only my favorite book EVER. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104) I was young and I didn't know any better.
Life of Pi : a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91) You should all read this book right now.
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83) Zzzzz.
The Odyssey (83) Slightly better than the Iliad.
Pride and Prejudice (83) I didn't think I'd like Austen, but I was wrong.
Jane Eyre (80)
A tale of two cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80) A long while back. I've forgotten almost everything about it.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and Peace (78) Very good stuff.
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73) AKA "Achilles gets all snitty until the rest of the Greeks kiss his ass."
Emma (73) A bit longish, but amusing.
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70) I think I read it back in high school. I'm almost sure.
American Gods (68)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (63) Pretty lightweight, actually.
Love In the Time of Cholera (62) I enjoyed it; but it's nowhere near the caliber of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Brave New World (61) Back in high school.
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59) Multiple times.
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59) More multiple times.
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57) One of the funniest books I've ever read.
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57) Read it pretty late; by that time I pretty much knew it all.
Angels & demons (56)
The Inferno (56) Much better than the sequels.
The Satanic Verses (55) Not as good as Midnight's Children, but good.
Sense and Sensibility (55) Still want to see the movies.
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55) The only Austen I couldn't finish. I just disliked Fanny so much.
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)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52) Good stuff.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
Dune (51) Much better than the sequels.
The prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51) Masterpiece.
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50)
A short history of nearly everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) I think I read this at the exact right time; my early twenties, old enough to be more curious than bored, not so old as to be put off by the self-consciousness. A year later I found Immortality insufferable.
Beloved (49) Still Morrison's best book.
Slaughterhouse-Five (49) Multiple times. Might be due for a re-read, in fact.
The Scarlet Letter (48) In high school. Despised it.
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)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46) Possibly Austen's most satisfying book.
Northanger Abbey (46) More good Austen; satirical and funny.
The Catcher in the Rye (46) I know the backlash is all the rage nowadays, but this was a signpost for me.
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) This book really wanted to change my life. It provoked some thought, sure, but . . .
The Aeneid (45) Before Terry Brooks ripped off Tolkien, Virgil ripped off Homer.
Watership Down (44) I hardly remember a thing about it.
Gravity's Rainbow (44) The only Pynchon I haven't read.
The Hobbit (44) About twenty times.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White Teeth (44) Better than I expected.
Treasure Island (44) Ditto.
David Copperfield (44)
The three musketeers (44)