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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As usual, 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.]

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 (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)
Foucault's Pendulum ( (This fricking horrible piece of shit is the worst book I ever tried to read…) (61)
The Fountainhead (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)
The Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being(49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter
(48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (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

Bah! Foucaults Pendulum! BAH! FIE!
I KNOW! God, that book and one by Danielle Steele are the only two books that I've ever actually thrown across the room and into a wall.

How far through Foucault's Pendulum did you get before you threw it into a wall?
Oh, hell, about 200 pages or so. The fucker was STILL hiding in some closet or something. He NEVER moved and the flashbacks were so fucking boring and nothing made sense and, oh my god I'm starting to want to throw something against the wall right now. ;)

200 pages of NOTHING. I felt so cheated.
Oh, and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel is a fun read, IMO.
I've never even heard of it. I will have to check it out.
What if you've seen the movies? Does that count, dude? *LOL*
CHEATER! CHEATER! No, that does not count.

Nor do Broadway musicals incidentally.

I have spoken, all tremble in fear!

I'm gonna bury my head...

...and pretend I didn't see "American Gods" with a strike-through. :(

Re: I'm gonna bury my head...

You're losing all respect for me, aren't you? ;)

I tried with that one, I really did. It was better than Foucault's Pendulum if that helps.

Although the ingredients label on a soup can has more appeal than FP so I don't know if that means much.
Andre 8

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