These are the top 106 (106? Why the hell 106?) books often noted as unread by Library Thing users.
Key: ( Read | given up | unreadable )
The classifications are entirely personal.
Classic
- Dracula
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- The Hobbit
- Treasure Island
- Watership Down
- 1984
- Atlas shrugged
- David Copperfield
- Emma
- Great Expectations
- Jane Eyre
- Lolita
- Mansfield Park
- Middlemarch
- Oliver Twist
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Vanity Fair
- Wuthering Heights
- A Tale of Two Cities (When I was 12)
- Frankenstein (Does Spike Milligan’s count?)
- Pride and Prejudice (And yet I still passed the exam)
- The Three Musketeers
Avoidance Fantasy
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Angels & Demons
- The Confusion (When I finish Quicksliver)
- Quicksilver (I own this, I will finish it one day)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (I put it down, and never really picked it up again)
Endurance
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The Silmarillion - Crime and Punishment
- Don Quixote
- Les Misérables
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Moby Dick
- The Canterbury tales (I should read this)
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Iliad
- The Inferno
- The Odyssey
- The Once and Future king
- Ulysses
- War and Peace
Peppermint
- American Gods (I do not believe people stop reading this)
- Anansi Boys
- Catch-22
- Cryptonomicon (Many, Many times)
- Neverwhere (This also)
- The picture of Dorian Gray
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
- The name of the Rose (Currently reading)
Spearmint
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Life of Pi : a novel
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Prince
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (Cannot read until I finish The Novel)
Wintergreen
- Dune
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation(She annoys me) - A Clockwork Orange
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Brave New World
- Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Satanic Verses
- White Teeth
- The Blind Assassin (I own this, I will finish it one day)
Beyond
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
- Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
- Anna Karenina
- Beloved
- Cloud Atlas
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Dubliners
- Foucault’s Pendulum
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
- In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
- Madame Bovary
- Middlesex
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Northanger abbey
- On the Road
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Oryx and Crake : a novel
- Persuasion
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- The Aeneid
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Corrections
- The Fountainhead
- The God of Small Things
- The Historian : a novel
- The Kite Runner
- The Mists of Avalon
- The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Sound and the Fury
- To the Lighthouse