Stole this from an Edinburgh-based blog I read called Chatiryworld. These are the top 106 (?) books most marked as unread by users of LibraryThing (which I must admit I've never been able to really get in to). I've read about half of them, it looks like. How about you?
Key:
Bold for read
italics for started and couldn't finish
strike through those you couldn't stand
*asterisk for ones read more than once
underline for those to read.
The List:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice (This is one of my absolute favorites!)
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair (I even blogged about this one)
*The Time Traveler's Wife (I LOVE this book)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (Does listening to it as an audio book count?)
American Gods (I thought Neverwhere was much better)
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex (Another great book)
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
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 (I thought it was interesting how all the slang words were based on Russian)
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
The Picture of Dorian Gray
*Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
*Tess of the D'Urbervilles (the only Thomas Hardy book with a happy ending)
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables (I admit I skipped most of the interminable section on the battle of Waterloo)
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, and Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake (This one really got under my skin. I just read it a couple of months ago and can't stop thinking about it.)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
*Persuasion
Northhanger 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 Maintainence: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
Three Musketeers