How many have you read?
Idea borrowed from my friend Abigail who borrowed it from her friend jydog1.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread†by LibraryThing’s users. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t (or haven’t) finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.
By the way, Ab, your score is 46/5/3/52
Read/Started/Hated/Unread
Brian: 28/6/2/70
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
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
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 Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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
Posted: October 9th, 2007 under Brian, Friends.
Comments: 5
Comments
Comment from Ron
Time: October 9, 2007, 9:48 pm
I’m 36/1/1/70. Some of these I read long ago, others I’m surprised are on the list. I can think of more more obscure books.
Comment from Wayne Pitcher
Time: October 10, 2007, 1:48 pm
19/7/0/87. I guess I’m not as well-read as I thought. 
Shouldn’t there be a category for “read but couldn’t stand”? I had 4 of those–all books for English class in high school. Of course, by college I just wasn’t finishing the books I was supposed to read for class (2 of those).
Comment from brian
Time: October 10, 2007, 1:51 pm
That’s what is in category 3. You listed ‘hated’ as 0.
Comment from Dan Dunn
Time: October 11, 2007, 7:56 am
29/1/6/70
That’s a really weird list. Charles Dickens and Neil Gaiman?
Comment from Corinne
Time: October 13, 2007, 12:59 pm
Read Freakonomoics. Fascinating. (And it removed all lingering guilt about not wanting to be a stay-at-home mom someday.)
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