These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s 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.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment*** Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi 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 Zatoichi The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran Quicksilver Exposition Wicked The Canterbury Tales *** The Historian 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 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 The God of Small Things A People’s History of the United States 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 Mists of Avalon Oryx and Crake Collapse Cloud Atlas The Confusion Lolita Persuasion Northanger Abbey The Catcher in the Rye On the Road The Hunchback of Notre Dame Freakonomics Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity's Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield
***Only required to read a portion for school, though I have read the full books
Every book read for school is also bolded, because I never once recieved a reading assignment for a book I hadn't already read, something that annoyed my teachers to no end. I once took an Oxford Lit Mayterm course, where we had to read a book a day essentially - and I had read all the books at least once, and some several times. My classmates hit me up for notes T_T What can I say? I was a Biblioholic. When I ran out of my own books-of-choice (fantasy), I read whatever I could get ahold of - which was everything from classics to encyclopedias to textbooks and medical books. *nerd* >_