It’s meme-ish, but I can’t help it, I’m book nerd and how could I pass this up? In fact, I’m such a huge nerd, I went a fixed all the capitalization of the titles after I copied it from elsewhere.
These are the top 200 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users as of a few days ago. Bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. (I’m going one further and putting an asterisk by the ones I own but haven’t yet read.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*
Catch-22
Life of Pi: A Novel*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
The Blind Assassin*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Middlesex*
Quicksilver
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
(I assume they mean Bram Stoker’s)
Anansi Boys: A Novel
The Satanic Verses
To the Lighthouse
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
Beloved: A Novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the Zero tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
The Confusion
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder And Its …
White Teeth
Cold Mountain
The Bell Jar
The Secret Life of Bees
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
The Plague
The Master and Margarita
Atonement: A Novel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Underworld
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stardust
Jude the Obscure
The Chronicles of Narnia
Possession: A Romance
Never Let Me Go
Kafka on the Shore
Bleak House
Sons and Lovers
Alias Grace
Baudolino
Confessions
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
The Alchemist
Candide, Or, Optimism
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Midnight’s Children
White Oleander
A Passage to India
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, And…
The Lovely Bones: A Novel
The Amber Spyglass
The Histories
Swann’s Way
Fahrenheit 451
Good Omens
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Paradise Lost
The English Patient
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Origin of Species
The Plot Against America
Silas Marner
The Hours
Prodigal Summer: A Novel
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Doctor Zhivago
The Shipping News
The Phantom of the Opera
The Portrait of a Lady
Blink: the Power of Thinking without Thinking
The Robber Bride
The Last of the Mohicans
The Age of Innocence
The System of the World
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Gunslinger
The Republic of Plato
The Remains of the Day
Cat’s Eye
Eragon*
A Game of Thrones
Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
The Island of the Day Before
The Good Earth
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at…
East of Eden
The Book Thief
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
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