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Gakked from ellen_fremedon

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime And Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life Of Pi: A Novel (94)
The Name Of The Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride And Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale Of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (79)
War And Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73) (See The Odyssey *G*.)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (67) (Bought For Me As A Present, Read One Chapter, Gave Up And Sold It...)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita In Tehran : A Memoir In Books (66)
Memoirs Of A Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (63)
Love In The Time Of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61) (Oh, That Most Cursed Book Of My English Lit Class Nightmares!)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count Of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once And Future King (57)
The Grapes Of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56) (What's The Option For 'I'd Rather Stab Myself In The Eye With A Pencil'?)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense And Sensibility (55)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To The Lighthouse (54)
Tess Of The D'urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay (52)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound And The Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God Of Small Things (51)
A People's History Of The United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy Of Dunces (50)
A Short History Of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation (48)
The Mists Of Avalon (47)
Oryx And Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher In The Rye (46)
On The Road (46)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything (45)
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)



Meanwhile, over on my book blog, I'm currently on book #66 for the year so far: The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding. Others I've read since my last post just over a month ago:

Gradisil by Adam Roberts (yeuch)
Fool Moon and Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Sign of the Cross by Colm Toibin (a rare non-fiction appearance!)
Black Out by Joe Lawton
The Religion by Tim Willocks
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Good, The Bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison