Unread Books meme

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Ganked from smonsterbite

According to a LibraryThing survey, these 106 works are the ones most often marked as “unread”, That is, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.

Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones read solely as a curriculum requirement, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.

Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.

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
The 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
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 (and Purgatory and Paradise)
*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 Musketeer

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