Of all the nations, procrastination is my favorite place...

[3pipeproblem]

What we have here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf unread, or get checked out of the library and returned unread.

Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, strikethrough the ones you actually own but haven’t read. (That last bit’s a change because it’s particularly telling. Also if I read something for pleasure and later had to read it for school, I put it in bold.)



Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I'm, uh, reading it right now?)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick (I don't know that I've ever finished "Bartleby the Scrivener")
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
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 (We read selections from it. In several classes, actually.)
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 (Hahahaha, funny story. The rest of the sophomore class had to read this. We read a dramatization of Of Mice and Men, which was approximately 90 pages long.)
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 (Is open here beside me as I type this.)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune (I think? I don't remember!)
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 (At the end of the year, I was given an award for my unrivaled hatred of this book. TRUE STORY.)
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

Comments

[watergal.livejournal.com]

(At the end of the year, I was given an award for my unrivaled hatred of this book. TRUE STORY.)

Racist.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yeah. I relegated it to the back of the bookshelf (actually, I think I threw/gave it away/lit it on fire, but that's not really helping my case here...).

[watergal.livejournal.com]

Nope. But it should help mine & Alan's. Especially the "lit on fire" bit. I'm thinking a CGI recreation for the jury.

*grabs screencap for evidence*

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Are you going to Godwin me in court? That'd be fantastic.

*uses inappropriate icon*

[watergal.livejournal.com]

Livejournal: where the appropriately placed inappropriate may become, paradoxically, appropriate. *g*

[dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com]

I like this meme. It made me feel smart and superior to the people who didn't read these books.

http://dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com/345764.html

[moomookrymoo.livejournal.com]

What is you were supposed to read it for school, own it but never read it?