LibraryThing Top 106 Unread List

Below is the list of the top 106 books marked “unread” on LibraryThing as of May 21, 2008 at 4:30 pm CDT. The point of this exercise is to see how you compare to the masses on LT.

The rules:

Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

* The ultimate hitchhiker’s guide by Douglas Adams (43)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236)
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (19)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211)
The illearth war by Stephen R. Donaldson (17)
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (17)
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (152)
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (176)
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183)
Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (115)
* The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155)

Ulysses by James Joyce (135)
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (132)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (132)
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (13)
The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (136)
Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller (158)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (162)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (110)
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (92)
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (124)
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (88)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (96)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi (96)
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (120)
The Kor’an by Anonymous (11)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (119)
The Odyssey by Homer (136)
* The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (108)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (114)
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (75)
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (108)
Foucault’s pendulum by Umberto Eco (101)
Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (102)
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (67)
* The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (87)
* The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (95)
The Iliad by Homer (117)
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (94)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (97)
Emma by Jane Austen (117)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (64)
Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (69)
Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift (88)
The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (62)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (104)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (100)
Lady Chatterley’s lover by D.H. Lawrence (73)
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (97)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (83)
The once and future king by T. H. White (81)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (82)
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (83)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (88)
Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (78)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (106)
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (56)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (83)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (76)
The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (84)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (58)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (64)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (63)
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (124)
Count Brass by Michael Moorcock (9)
The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (47)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (66)
Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (65)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (62)
Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (66)
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (89)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (59)
The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri (63)
The inferno by Dante Alighieri (84)
Gravity’s rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (66)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (83)
Swann’s way by Marcel Proust (59)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (91)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (83)
The portrait of a lady by Henry James (62)
Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (96)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (57)
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (89)
The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas (43)
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (80)
The confusion by Neal Stephenson (61)
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey (82)
The book thief by Markus Zusak (67)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (97)
The system of the world by Neal Stephenson (55)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (63)
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene (60)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (78)
The known world by Edward P. Jones (53)
The time traveler’s wife by Audrey Niffenegger (105)
The mill on the Floss by George Eliot (54)
The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64)
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (47)
Dubliners by James Joyce (78)
The bonesetter’s daughter by Amy Tan (56)
Les misérables by Victor Hugo (73)
Infinite jest : a novel by David Foster Wallace (54)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (53)
Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (77)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (82)

I’ve read 18 out of 106, several of them more than once, and I didn’t dislike any of them. Really. Not even To the Lighthouse which several people in the Virginia Woolf class I took couldn’t finish.