Sorry, this is a very pooter-ish sort of post, but it's Friday, I've had a splitting headache all day, and I don't think I can manage more than this. I've seen this meme on various blogs lately, so I am going to grab it as well. These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. For the life of me I cannot find this list on Library Thing (is it right in front of me and I am simply not seeing it?). By the way, I started to "catalog" my books on Library Thing in 2005, but as of late I have been woefully neglectful. When I first joined I might have had a chance of being one of the "50 largest libraries" (had I entered all my books at the time, which I did not), but now I have been left in the dust. I see that the largest libraries have well over 10,000 books in them. No amount of bookmooching is going to get me anywhere near that number.
Once again it seems like a slightly random list, but I suppose these are the most commonly owned books that people haven't yet read. My own little spin to the list--I have bolded the titles I've read, italicized the books I own and plan on reading, asterisked** the ones I'd like to buy or borrow and read someday, striked out the titles that don't appeal to me, and the rest, who knows--maybe someday, but at the moment don't really have an opinion on.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina -- Next year!
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 -- I sincerely doubt I'll ever get to this, but you never know.
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey -- I read this in high school, but it's been so long I hate to count it.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov** -- Another I read in high school.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies**
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (??)Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books -- I started this, but set it aside. I do plan on finishing it someday, but of course it's been so long that I'll have to start over.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world The Fountainhead
Foucault’s pendulum**
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orangeAnansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s travels
Les misérablesThe corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-timeDune
The prince
The 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
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas**
The Confusion (??)
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey -- I'm going to read this after I finish Radcliffe's Udolpho!
The Catcher in the Rye
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 : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid**
Watership Down
Gravity’s RainbowThe Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
My list is very hit or miss. There are lots of titles I'd like to read but haven't gotten around to (hence the list, eh!). I guess I have my work cut out for me, but I already knew that.