What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
There are an uncomfortable number of Neal Stephenson books on this list. I guess it’s good that people are buying them, even if they’re not reading them. It means Neal will keep on writing, which is good for me.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anansi Boys<\/u> and The Sound and the Fury<\/u> should<\/i> be on my To Be Read pile, but are not yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am contributing to the general unreadedness by owning but not yet reading Middlesex<\/u>, A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/u>, and Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies<\/u>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I should really wander over to LibraryThing one of these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *updated 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing\u2019s 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 … Continue reading
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell<\/b>
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22<\/b>
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel<\/strong>
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick<\/u><\/b>
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice<\/b>
Jane Eyre<\/b>
The Tale of Two Cities<\/u><\/b>
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies<\/i><\/strong>
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife<\/b>
The Iliad
Emma<\/b>
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations<\/u><\/b>
American Gods<\/b>
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/i>
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha<\/b>
Middlesex<\/strong>
Quicksilver<\/b>
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West<\/b>
The Canterbury Tales<\/u><\/b>
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World<\/u><\/b>
The Fountainhead<\/b>
Foucault\u2019s Pendulum<\/i>
Middlemarch<\/strong>
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys<\/strong>
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath<\/u><\/b>
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984<\/u><\/b>
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)<\/u><\/b>
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility<\/b>
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver\u2019s Travels
Les Mis\u00e9rables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/strong>
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/b>
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela\u2019s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People\u2019s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon<\/b>
Neverwhere<\/b>
A Confederacy of Dunces<\/b>
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five<\/b>
The Scarlet Letter<\/u><\/b>
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas<\/strong>
The Confusion<\/b>
Lolita<\/u><\/b>
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye<\/b>
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything<\/b>
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values<\/i>
The Aeneid
Watership Down<\/strong>
Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/i>
The Hobbit<\/b>
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island<\/b>
David Copperfield<\/strong>
The Three Musketeers<\/p>\n\n\n\n