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andtheyflew:

Below is a list of 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing users. They sit on their shelf, perhaps to make their owner feel smart or well-rounded.

The meme comes with these instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. I added another level - [brackets] for the ones I want to read.

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 (and Purgatory and Paradise)
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 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 : 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
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

Taken from here. Interestingly, the only one of these I own and have not read is The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and that’s only because I bought it with Jitterbug Perfume which I’m reading first.

Reblogging this because I actually want to read a lot of these books. Source: apertedesiderata