Top Unread Books Meme

Okay, I’ll bite. I’ve seen this on a bunch of book blogs, and like Devourer of Books, I’m not going to have any reviews to post for at least a few more days. So, in the meantime…

The Top 106 Unread Books on LibraryThing Meme

This meme is based on the top 106 (why not 107?) books tagged “unread” on LibraryThing.com.

I’ve bolded the books that I’ve read, and put links to reviews, where applicable. Since I don’t ever start books and not finish them (with the lone exception of Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien – how appropriate!), I’m using italics to refer to books that are sitting at home on my giant TBR pile.

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 (okay, I lied, I sort of half-started this one and never finished it, but I’ll have to start over when I get back to it.) 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 Memoirs of a Geisha Middlesex Quicksilver Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West The Canterbury Tales (or at least some of it in school) The Historian 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 1984 Angels & Demons

The Inferno The Satanic Verses Sense and Sensibility (I’ve read it, but it was a long time ago and I think it needs a re-read.) 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 Misérables 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 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 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 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity’s Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield The Three Musketeers

So, 46 down, 60 to go (in theory – I’ve got no real desire to read a lot of these, classics or no.) Thoughts? Any that I haven’t read yet that you can’t believe that I’m missing (except for the Austen – I know, I know, and it’s on my list)? How do your numbers stack up?