Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Books Most Unread Meme

Here's an interesting meme. The list of books below are books that have been most tagged "unread" on LibraryThing. So, go through the list and tag see if you've read them!

In bold = You've read it
In red = Started but didn't finish
In blue= It's still sitting on your shelf untouched
No formatting = don't own, haven't read

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (239)
2. The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm (20)
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (200)
4. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (179)
5. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (140)
6. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155)
7. Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (167)
8. Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (110)
9. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (129)
10. Ulysses by James Joyce (129)
11. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (128)
12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (159) *
13. The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway (13)
14. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (160)
15. The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (126)
16. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (106)
17. A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (123)
18. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (124) *
19. The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (113)
20. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi (97)
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (92)
22. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (117)*
23. Emma by Jane Austen (123)*
24. The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (81)
25. Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (100)
26. The Odyssey by Homer (130)
27. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (66)
28. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (96)
29. The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (69)
30. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (64)
31. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (92)
32. Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (97)
33. The Iliad by Homer (113)
34. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (96)
35. Dracula by Bram Stoker (101)
36. The book thief by Markus Zusak (72)
37. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (127)
38. The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (96)*
39. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (103)
40. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (58)
41. The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (61)
42. The once and future king by T. H. White (82)
43. Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (72)
44. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (98)
45. Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (79)
46. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (127)
47. The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (50)
48. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (80)
49. The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (78)
50. Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (83)
51. The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (85)
52. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (54)
53. Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (121)
54. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (87)
55. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (75)
56. The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99)*
57. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (93)
58. A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (93)
59. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (94)
60. The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (82)
61. The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (113)
62. The known world by Edward P. Jones (57)
63. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (83)
64. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (77)
65. Swann's way by Marcel Proust (61)
66. Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (62)
67. The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan (60)
68. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (101)
69. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (61)
70. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (99)
71. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (70)
72. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (59)
73. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (56)
74. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (77)
75. To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (76)
76. The mill on the Floss by George Eliot (56)
77. Persuasion by Jane Austen (85)
78. Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (64)
79. Baudolino by Umberto Eco (58)
80. The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri (60)
81. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (53)*
82. Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (79)
83. Underworld by Don DeLillo (59)
84. Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (64)*
85. The island of the day before by Umberto Eco (54)
86. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (83)
87. The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas (42)
88. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64)
89. In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its… by Truman Capote (78)
90. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (62)
91. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (79)
92. Les misérables by Victor Hugo (72)
93. The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (86)
94. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (83)
95. The portrait of a lady by Henry James (59)
96. The phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (55)
97. Silas Marner by George Eliot (54)
98. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (46)*
99. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (61)
100. One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (78)
101. Infinite jest : a novel by David Foster Wallace (53)
102. The inferno by Dante Alighieri (78)
103. The ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke (39)
104. Cat's eye by Margaret Atwood (58)
105. Anansi boys : a novel by Neil Gaiman (81)
106. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West… by Gregory Maguire (91)
107. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (59)
108. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (57)
109. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro (68)
110. As I lay dying by William Faulkner (64)
111. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (74)
112. Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (58)
113. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson (78)
114. The age of innocence by Edith Wharton (59)
115. Cold mountain by Charles Frazier (66)
116. Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson (63)
117. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (90)
118. Dubliners by James Joyce (74)
119. The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene (56)
120. Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (87)
121. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (48)
122. American gods : a novel by Neil Gaiman (94)
123. Possession : a romance by A.S. Byatt (65)
124. A princess of Roumania by Paul Park (24)
125. The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (51)
126. The Dante Club : a novel by Matthew Pearl (52)
127. The confusion by Neal Stephenson (56)
128. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (60)
129. Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (56)
130. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (67)
131. The thirteenth tale : a novel by Diane Setterfield (59)
132. Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller (51)
133. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (54)
134. Cloud atlas : a novel by David Mitchell (58)
135. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (64)
136. Vellum by Hal Duncan (27)
137. Freedom & necessity by Steven Brust (27)
138. The good earth by Pearl S. Buck (56)
139. A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn (61)
140. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (55)
141. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (64)
142. Son of a witch : a novel by Gregory Maguire (48)
143. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (51)
144. The return of the native by Thomas Hardy (47)
145. Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (58)
146. Northanger abbey by Jane Austen (63)
147. Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt (73)
148. Villette by Charlotte Bronte (46)
149. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (66)
150. Dune by Frank Herbert (85)
151. The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (79)
152. Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (64)
153. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (46)
154. Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs (56)
155. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (47)
156. Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (68)
157. Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (95)
158. The system of the world by Neal Stephenson (48)
159. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (66)
160. Utopia by Thomas More (52)
161. The Aeneid by Virgil (66)
162. Pattern recognition by William Gibson (55)
163. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (109)
164. Prodigal summer : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (52)
165. The mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (47)
166. The mysterious flame of Queen Loana : an illustrated novel by Umberto Eco (42)
167. The plague by Albert Camus (63)
168. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (49)
169. Watership Down by Richard Adams (71)
170. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (65)
171. Empire falls by Richard Russo (51)
172. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (72)
173. The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (71)
174. The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde (65)
175. The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai (43)
176. Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy (48)
177. Of human bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (44)
178. The idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (56)
179. Light in August by William Faulkner (47)
180. The golden compass by Philip Pullman (81)
181. The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (60)
182. Suite française by Irene Nemirovsky (47)
183. A passage to India by E.M. Forster (53)
184. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig (66)
185. Fragile things : short fictions and wonders by Neil Gaiman (48)
186. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (28)
187. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous (43)
188. The road by Cormac McCarthy (60)
189. Beowulf : a new verse translation by Anonymous (69)
190. The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro (54)
191. The moonstone by Wilkie Collins (45)
192. On beauty : a novel by Zadie Smith (52)
193. Women in love by D.H. Lawrence (42)
194. Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story by John Berendt (55)
195. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (87)
196. The night watch by Sarah Waters (35)
197. A room with a view by E.M. Forster (47)
198. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; an experiment in literary… by Aleksander Solzenitsyn (41)
199. The plot against America by Philip Roth (49)
200. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (55)

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