106 Most Unread Books
Below is a list of 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing users. They sit on their shelf, perhaps to make their owner feel smart or well-rounded.
The meme comes with these instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina (may have finished, it was elementary school, don't remember)
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering HeightsThe 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
A Tale of Two Cities</u>The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and PeaceVanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad -- I've read it for fun, too though!
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite RunnerMrs. Dalloway
Great ExpectationsAmerican Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas ShruggedReading 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 TalesThe Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManLove in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The FountainheadFoucault’s PendulumMiddlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork OrangeAnansi Boys
The Once and Future KingThe Grapes of WrathThe Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984Angels & Demons (it's better not to read this)
The Inferno (and
Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian GrayMansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver TwistGulliver’s Travels
Les MisérablesThe Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
DuneThe PrinceThe 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 -- Maybe finished, don't remember
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly EverythingDubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-fiveThe Scarlet LetterEats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
LolitaPersuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the RyeOn the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everythingZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The AeneidWatership DownGravity’s Rainbow
The HobbitIn Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure IslandDavid Copperfield
The Three MusketeersNot bad. I have really been trying to find the Dumas works (Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo) at the used book stores, but they haven't been there the last two times.
Taken from
here.