Unread books meme

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Stolen from elaran becuase it amuses me: a list of books most often marked as "unread" in LibraryThing and whether or not I've read them :)



Italics: tried to read and failed
strikethrough: unreadable
bold: have read
*asterixes*: bought, didn't read, gave away (I added this :))

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell But I mean to try again one day
Anna Karenina
*Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights For school, and then never again :)
The Silmarillion I did fail trying to reread it recently
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary I wish I hadn't finished it :)
The Odyssey
Pride and PrejudiceLike a bazillion times!
Jane Eyre ditto
A Tale of Two Cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies It was a bit of a slog, but totally worth reading
War and Peace
Vanity Fair I don't think I could reread it but quite enjoyed it
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma ...but it's so awesome!
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway Was very underwhelmed, I think I missed the point
Great Expectations A couple of times, so I skipped to the end :)
American Gods Huh, I should have read this list before setting it as a bookclub text (it didn't go down that well)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Seemed ok but lost motivation
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 I didn't try very hard though, was just skimming it at school
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum SO DULL
Middlemarch Another "Very good, hard slog, would never reread"
Frankenstein
*The Count of Monte Cristo*
Dracula I was reading it as a blog for a while, got got behind and never caught up
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys This really wasn't hard to read. Buck up people!
The Once and Future King Read all but the "Book of Merlin", which totally stumped me on every attempt
The Grapes of Wrath But only for school, blah.
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984 Didn't try very hard though
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility Jane austen is not hard to read!
The Picture of Dorian Gray ..and then I skipped to the end :)
Mansfield Park *mutters*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse For school. Was completely unable to remember the plot from moment to moment though.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles I was given it as a child, I do not know why
Oliver Twist Did take a couple of tries though
Gulliver’s Travels Very dry, bitter satire, not what I was expecting
*Les Misérables*
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune The first book I laid my hands on after a book-free school camp, not sure I would have made it through otherwise :)
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things I LOVED this book
A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
Cryptonomicon But god was it a slog. Bah.
Neverwhere I thought this was ok
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything Several times, till it got too simplistic :D
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 Guh. Dense dull propoganda.
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita ...odd.
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values But I wish I hadn't
The Aeneid
Watership Down It did take some effort but I'm glad I read it
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit Because anpther girl at my school had read it to accalodes from the teacher, and I refused to be outdone :)
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island Can't remember if I eventually finished it, tried quite a few times
David Copperfield I really liked this
The Three Musketeers

Comments

Re: What a lot of Dickens. I don't like Dickens much ...

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My experience with Neal Stephenson was exactly the same, but with Cryptonomicon, although I get the feeling he was only starting to get into his polemic-making stride at that point.

*looks up garrulous* Can't argue with you there, though I think Neal Stephenson's recent work is worse :)