Instructions: The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" byLibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, asterisk the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
1984 A Clockwork Orange A Confederacy of Dunces- just pulled this out of our old car, could not finish it, just too choppy A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Short History of Nearly Everything American Gods Anansi Boys Angela’s Ashes: a Memoir Angels & Demons Anna Karenina Atlas Shrugged- my god I loved the fountainhead, but could not stomach this. Beloved Brave New World Catch-22 Cloud Atlas Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed Crime and Punishment- where did I put that after my last move? Cryptonomicon David Copperfield Don Quixote- see crime & punishment Dracula Dubliners* yeah never really read any Joyce Dune Eats, Shoots & Leaves Emma Foucault’s Pendulum Frankenstein Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything Gravity’s Rainbow- but I love the crying of lot 49 Great Expectations Gulliver’s Travels Guns, Germs, and Steel In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences Inferno Jane Eyre Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Les Misérables Life of Pi: a novel- but it sucks ass Lolita Love in the Time of Cholera Madame Bovary Mansfield Park Memoirs of a Geisha- also sucked ass Middlemarch Middlesex Moby Dick Mrs. Dalloway Neverwhere Northanger Abbey Oliver Twist On the Road- I am ashamed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude Oryx and Crake Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Quicksilver Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books Sense and Sensibility Slaughterhouse-five Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Aeneid The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Blind Assassin The Brothers Karamazov The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Confusion The Count of Monte Cristo The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Fountainhead The God of Small Things The Grapes of Wrath The Historian: a novel The Hobbit The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Iliad The Kite Runner The Mists of Avalon The Name of the Rose The Odyssey The Once and Future King The Picture of Dorian Gray- started someone else's copy on a weekend away from home, never picked it up again The Poisonwood Bible: a novel The Prince* The Satanic Verses- once again, started it abroad, still need to get a copy & finish it The Scarlet Letter The Silmarillion The Sound and the Fury The Tale of Two Cities The Time Traveler’s Wife The Unbearable Lightness of Being To the Lighthouse Treasure Island Ulysses Vanity Fair War and Peace Watership Down White Teeth Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West Wuthering Heights Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values