Da Book Meme

[mundens]

Via holding_pattern. These are (reportedly) the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today).

Instructions : Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

And I think they really need to add the authors to that list. For instance, which of the several books called Persuasion, is it supposed to be? Does The Inferno refer to Dante's The Divine Comedy?
Does Quicksilver refer to Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle novel? I've assumed "Emily Bronte" and "Yes" as the answers to those questions, but I may be wrong.

And many of them I've never heard of, let alone read. I've reduced the font on all of those.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime And Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life Of Pi : A Novel (94)
The Name Of The Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride And Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale Of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (79)
War And Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita In Tehran : A Memoir In Books (66)
Memoirs Of A Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (63)
Love In The Time Of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count Of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once And Future King (57)
The Grapes Of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense And Sensibility (55)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To The Lighthouse (54)
Tess Of The D'urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay (52)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound And The Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God Of Small Things (51)
A People's History Of The United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy Of Dunces (50)
A Short History Of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation (48)
The Mists Of Avalon (47)
Oryx And Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher In The Rye (46)
On The Road (46)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics (45)
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)

Comments

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

Jane Austen!!!

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Er, yeah, one or other of those English girls... :)

[sokky.livejournal.com]

dude, you beat me to it ;)

[holding-pattern.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've read something you haven't heard of:

The Historian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historian), which (prior to reading Sunshine) was the only good vampire book I'd ever read. It's long, and involved, and fabulous, and involves a search for Dracula carried out across Europe. It's good stuff, and I cheerfully recommend it. In fact, I did, quite heavily, when I read it a couple of years ago.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, now that you say that I remember you mentioning it

[house-monkey.livejournal.com]

I have A Confederacy of Dunces if you'd like to borrow it sometime, it's worth a look.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

What is it?

[repton-infinity.livejournal.com]

_The Fountainhead_ is by Ayn Rand, I believe. I haven't read it, but I spent a lot of time on forum2000 back in the day :-)

I think you'd enjoy _Cryptonomicon_.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I expect I would, I know of Cryptonomicon, but I've just never got round to reading anything other than Snow Crash.

[holding-pattern.livejournal.com]

Cryptonomicon *is* good. Not as focused as Snow Crash, though - I found his tendency to digress to be a little irritating.