Unread Books Meme
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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. * - Read more than once. Underlined - On my to-read list.
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
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A 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
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
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
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray*
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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 dog 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
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
vanityfair00. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. * - Read more than once. Underlined - On my to-read list.
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
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A 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
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
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray*
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog 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
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
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:07 am (UTC)I have Crime and Punishment waiting to be read as well. But it intimidates me.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:32 am (UTC)I was surprised to find that Remembrance of things past isn't on this list. Does that mean many people have actually read it? That's hard to believe XD. It's on my "to read" list, in any case.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:13 am (UTC)Thank God, somebody who hates Dracula as passionately as I do! Mind you, there's a lot to write about in it, but the story itself is so mind-numbingly boring and stupid.
Don't know how you could read Wuthering Heights more than once, though. I hated all the characters so much that I wished they would all just shut up and die!
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:39 am (UTC)Actually my favourite professor at university asked us once whether we preferred Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, and most of us (myself included) chose Jane Eyre. She found that rather disappointing, because Cathy and Heathcliff are so much more passionate and wild. She conceded that the second half of the novel is a bit of a bore because it deals with the younger generation - but Cathy and Heathcliff... That professor taught me to enjoy the treatment of the power dynamic between the two characters. Now I'm into power dynamics in Wilde XD.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:41 pm (UTC)If I'm not mistaken there's quite a bit to dislike about Jane and Mr Rochester as well, but I always understood them nonetheless.
I'm in the middle of compiling of a list with books from my bookshelf. That will be much more interesting - at least to me. ;)
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:28 am (UTC)Dracula - ugh. I only decided to read it because I'd come across it so often while studying the Victorian age; I thought I really couldn't do without it. But dear me, what a badly written book! Boring, stupid and arch-conservative. I'm sorry, but any author who uses a comparison with a suffragette to show just how monstrous a vampire is, I shall scourge with rods. ;P
As for Dorian Gray, I don't remember how many times I have read it, in both versions *g*. I usen't to like it - it is very flawed - but it has grown on me in the meantime. Which is a good thing, because I have of course had to spend quite some time with the book :-).
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:45 am (UTC)Truer words were never written! Let's not forget the ultra-macho
homoeroticismfetishization of masculinity, and the connection between female sexual assertiveness and death/decay/perversion. I had the misfortune of having it be required reading for a Victorian Brit. Lit. class, and I kept reading it and thinking, 'She took George Elliot off the syllabus for this?'I find the book interesting primarily for all the things it reveals about Stoker's time, despite the fact that he intended none of it.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:01 pm (UTC)And about Stoker himself! It's the sort of book with which Freudians have a field day. I have to say, it was the only thing that kept me reading :P. Of course there was also the added lure of a Wilde connection: Stoker married Florence 'Florrie' Balcombe, with whom Wilde was in love at that time. Florrie chose Stoker because as a practically-minded young girl she preferred a civil servant with an income to a penniless poet. Now, Wilde may not be the greatest poet or novellist ever, but what he wrote was certainly lots more impressive than Stoker's drivel - and he had a sense of humour :D.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 12:53 pm (UTC)Agreed! I had a much easier time getting through the book once I just started mentally dissecting it.
As for dear Florrie...well, I'd take Wilde's writing over Stoker's any day! At least Wilde was witty and self-aware!
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 03:40 pm (UTC)Wooha! Just in case, here's spoiler space for a 19th-century novel ;P...
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He's going to get younger - that's what the blood-sucking is all about! But unfortunately Dracula getting handsomer is not going to save this atrocious excuse for a novel... ;)
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Date: Tuesday, 2 October 2007 07:39 am (UTC)No (I wish sometimes *g*). But that's just the problem -- I have too much of an image of the dashing gothic Dracula that an old general-type figure is stretching it a bit for me. LOL
He's going to get younger
Well, that would be something! But even with that ... Maybe it's got such good press because of its hype in other media? Sounds familiar ::cough:: ;)
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 07:22 pm (UTC)Dracula being white-haired with a big white moustache was enough on its own to put me off!
LOL! They knew what they were doing in the movie, when they made him look like hot Gary Oldman instead!
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Date: Tuesday, 2 October 2007 07:45 am (UTC)Van Helsing's way of speaking sounds strangely like Borat to me.
LOL Captain Birds Eye, Borat... I never knew Dracula was so ... odd. :P
They knew what they were doing in the movie, when they made him look like hot Gary Oldman instead!
Yes indeed! Which is why the original seems like an old fuddy-duddy so far by comparison... ;P
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:51 am (UTC)At least the book I'm currently reading is a woman's. It's Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu. I'm loving it :-).
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 02:44 am (UTC)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
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A 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
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
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
MiddlemarchFrankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrathThe Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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 dog in the night-time
DuneThe 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
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 HobbitIn cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David CopperfieldThe three musketeers
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 06:47 pm (UTC)I did like Dorian Gray though, but I think we may have had a conversation about that before... :D
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Date: Friday, 26 October 2007 11:59 am (UTC)Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude worth it if you can keep all the characters in your head - lots of them!
Wuthering Heights just finished re-reading, but try 'Jane Eyre' instead *sigh*
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote wanted to love it ... too repetitive
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey read at school but planning to reread soon.
Pride and prejudice
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities LOVE IT ... Sidney Carton might just remind you of someone ...
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma ok
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations ok
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 school text
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man school text but night reread
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world extraordinary for its time, but also read 'Farenheit 451' for a total freakout!
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein very sad, not what you would expect
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 school, but worth it
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray* still quite creepy.
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest gutwrenching
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles wobbly, try 'Far from the madding crowd'
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables hard work
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury must ... finish ...
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 MUST MUST MUST
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five worth it
The scarlet letter whatever
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 not bad
The catcher in the rye just reread and much better than i expected - lots of adult stuff i missed as a teenager
On the road
The hunchback of Notre Dame so very sad
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 on the 'reread' list
Gravity's rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences **close to the best non-fiction ever**
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers