10/04/07: Top books people own but haven't read

Posted by: Ickyru


How many have you read? From librarything's website.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)

Anna Karenina (132)

Crime and punishment (121) - Read it

Catch-22 (117)- Read it multiple times, one of my all-time favorites

One hundred years of solitude (115)

Wuthering Heights (110)

The Silmarillion (104) - as a Tolkien fan, I've read it

Life of Pi: a novel (94)

The name of the rose (91)

Don Quixote (91) - read it in high school

Moby Dick (86)

Ulysses (84)- read it

Madame Bovary (83)

The Odyssey (83)

Pride and prejudice (83)

Jane Eyre (80)

A tale of two cities (80) - read it

The brothers Karamazov (80)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)- definitely read it- Jared Diamond is superb

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) - Read it, absolutely hilarious

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)- started it in 7th grade but couldn't finish it

The Count of Monte Cristo (59)

Dracula (59)

A clockwork orange (59)- another one of my favorite books

Anansi boys (58)

The once and future king (57)

The grapes of wrath (57)

The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)

1984 (57)- Hell yea

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)- Yessiree bob

To the lighthouse (54)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)

Oliver Twist (54)

Gulliver's travels (53)- Sooo boring.

Les misérables (53)

The corrections (53)

The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)- Yea, Michael Chabon is good.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)

Dune (51)- Of course.

The prince (51) (in English translation)- Are you kidding? I teach this stuff on a regular basis.

The sound and the fury (51)- Read it, but I hate Faulkner.

Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)

The god of small things (51)

A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)- Yes, Howard Zinn is one of our greatest living historians.

Cryptonomicon (50)- Neal Stephenson rocks.

Neverwhere (50)

A confederacy of dunces (50)- Not as funny as you'd think.

A short history of nearly everything (50)

Dubliners (50)

The unbearable lightness of being (49)

Beloved (49)

Slaughterhouse-five (49)- RIP Kurt.

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)- another amazing Jared Diamond book.

Cloud atlas (47)

The confusion (46)

Lolita (46)-another one of my favorite books.

Persuasion (46)

Northanger abbey (46)

The catcher in the rye (46)

On the road (46)

The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)- interesting premise, didn't agree with everything though.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)

The Aeneid (45)

Watership Down (44)

Gravity's rainbow (44)

The Hobbit (44)- of course

In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)

White teeth (44)

Treasure Island (44)

David Copperfield (44)

The three musketeers (44)


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