librarything meme

[42itous]

I feel compelled to participate in this

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude (I tried to read it in Spanish and failed; so I tried in English but still failed.
Wuthering Heights
Life of Pi
The name of the rose
Don Quixote (but I've seen two different stage versions)
Moby Dick (but I've seen a music video of it)
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre
A tale of two cities
The brothers Karamazov (but I've seen a juggling troupe named for them)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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 (I think I didn't read the whole thing, but I studied it for a semester, and what I did read was not in translation.)
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 (but I've seen the movie)
Anansi boys
The once and future king (but I've seen The Sword In The Stone at least a dozen times)
The Grapes of Wrath (Actually, my dad read it to us as a bedtime story, but I say that counts)
The poisonwood Bible
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 (but I've worked on a production of the musical)
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables (but I've seen the broadway production)
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
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved : a novel
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 : a novel
The confusion
Lolita
Persuasion*
Northanger abbey
The catcher in the rye
On the road
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics (to be fair, this is the sort of book one picks up in a bookstore and reads a chapter of before putting it back on the shelf)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's rainbow
In cold blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield (though I've seen him perform magic on TV)
The three musketeers (although I made costumes for a recent production of it... and I eat the candy bars)

I don't know how to make a strike-through, but these are the ones I couldn't stand:
American Gods
Wicked
Dorian Gray
A Confederacy of Dunces
Slaughterhouse-Five


Apparently I have a low tolerance for books that don't entertain me.

Comments

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

You've got some broken HTML there. The latter half of the entry is bolded.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oop, looks like you caught it.

[gingicat]

What I'm getting out of reading responses to this meme is that my friends have interestingly-different tastes in literature. :)

I think you are the only one so far who couldn't stand American Gods or Wicked. Interesting.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stand Wicked. And from what I've heard of the musical so far, I hate that too.

American Gods is a different story however.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

Huh. Your list includes a bunch that weren't on the list I got (let's see, who was it from? i don't remember)...

The library version of Telephone!