Frequently Unread Books Meme

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I've seen this meme in a couple of different versions, in the journals of oursin, yhlee and frightened.

The books listed below are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of whenever this meme started circulating, I presume).

The instructions that came with the meme said: As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The version from frightened adds: Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read, underlined the ones on my to-read list, and added an asterisk to those I’ve read more than once (in whole or in part). I rarely stop reading a book, and none of the ones I’ve read here were among the few that I’ve been unable to finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion *
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses *
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey *
Pride and Prejudice *
Jane Eyre *
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov *
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler'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
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 Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King *
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
1984 *
Angels & 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
Gulliver's Travels
Les misérables [Some parts in French, the whole in English.]
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune *
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 [actually, I’m reading this now, but I will finish it, so…]
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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 *
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 Rainbow
The Hobbit *
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers