The Un-Read List

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What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. And [bracket] the books you own but haven't read yet.

Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
Emma
Atlas Shrugged
The Canterbury Tales
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
The Once and Future King
1984
Sense and Sensibility
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Neverwhere
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lolita
Persuasion
The Catcher in the Rye
Watership Down - This is my favorite book of all time. I recommend it to everyone, seriously. I even have the sequel, Tales From Watership Down.
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
The Scarlet LetterM - I hate this book so hard.
Don Quixote
Ulysses
The Odyssey
The Iliad - High School lit. How can anyone who's gone to highschool not have read these?
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
The Tale of Two Cities
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West - it's really fucking funny. Dark, but funny.
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Anansi Boys
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel - this was also truly funny.
Angels & Demons
Inferno - if it's Dante's Inferno.
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - another classic. So much better than the movie.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Les Misérables - had to read it after I saw the musical. It's just beautiful, if somewhat preachy.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune - I've made so many attempts to finish this thing. It bores me to tears.
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five - All of Vonnegut's works rock. This was an amazing story, right up there with Johnny Got His Gun
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon - oh c'mon. I've read the whole series... Geez.
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid - ah yes, yet another torture session funded by high school lit.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit - wtf? The Silmarillion I can understand, but The Hobbit?
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences - I <3 true crime.
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield