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chakramchuckerThe top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand. (I also truetyped the ones I'd never heard of. I could've done something else to the ones that are in my house right now, but I though that might be going a bit overboard)
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 (I've read a few novelisations, but not the original)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The 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 (Again, I read a few novelisations, but not the original)
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (I just haven't got around to this one yet)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha (Seen most of the movie)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (Been meaning to read this one, just to see what it's like)
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 (I'm not sure whether I finished it or not)
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (I've been thinking of reading this one)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
Angels & Demons (Uh, the Dan Brown book? What's this doing on this list?)
1984
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
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels (I saw a movie of it a long time ago. I don't really remember it, though)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (It centres on a stereotypical autistic boy! How could I not have read it?)
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 (Some people said that Holden was a really annoying protagonist, but I felt like I could relate to him)
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 (Novelisation!)
Watership Down (But I've read Firebringer, which I hear is a total ripoff of this book. Does that count?)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island (I've only seen the Muppet version)
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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Canterbury Tales is kinda funny because of how rude it is. I liked having to read something like that for school. I recommend finding a fairly easy-to-read translation though. I've seen several and some are downright unintelligible.
Which Gulliver's Travels movie did you see? Was it the really long, live-action almost-miniseries one, or an old cartoon? I used to watch both obsessively.
Muppet Treasure Island rocks. I listen to bits of the soundtrack a lot and I haven't even seen the movie in about a decade.
We should both read The Once and Future King...
Annnnd never heard of Firebringer.
I think I might've been too young to really appreciate Muppet Treasure Island, but I usually think the sentence "We're standing in a room with a dead guy!" whenever the opportunity presents itself. That and "This does not look safe!"
Firebringer, by David Clement-Davies, is a book about Deer. The main deer, Ranoch is the Chosen one because he has a leaf mark on his forehead, and around the time when he was born, some evil deer took over the herd. When Ranoch grew up, his birthmark type thing was discovered and he and some of his friends ran away and undertook a journey where they met some deer on a reserve, and at one point Ranoch was saved by a human. In the end, he came back and liberated the herd. The title comes from a part near the end when he picks up a flaming branch and does... something with it.
I only remember that much detail because I read it for school and had to write a story based on it.
And White Teeth is all about the London working class, this time. All about immigrants, street-wise run-on sentences and such. But really, a good book.
I'll ask a stupid question, be prepared: Is Life of Pi entirely related to mathematics?
Life of Pi has nothing to do with maths. It's about this Indian kid named Piscine Patel, who told people to call him Pi because his full name got him picked on. He does mention that it's also a number, though. The second half of the story has Pi adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger for a long time, which I suppose is what makes the book memorable. It's a pretty weird book.