{"id":20,"date":"2007-10-12T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T10:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-10-12T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T10:28:41","slug":"unread-books-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"unread books thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, since everyone else is doing it too:<\/p>\n<p>The top 106 books most often marked as &#8216;unread&#8217; by LibraryThing&#8217;s users (as of today) As usual, <strong>bold<\/strong> what you have read, <em>italicize<\/em> those you started but couldn&#8217;t finish, and <del datetime=\"2007-10-12T10:11:16+00:00\">strike through<\/del> what you couldn&#8217;t stand. Add an asterisk to those you&#8217;ve read more than once. <u>Underline<\/u> those on your to-read list.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell<br \/>\nAnna Karenina<br \/>\nCrime and Punishment<br \/>\nCatch-22<br \/>\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude<br \/>\nWuthering Heights<br \/>\nThe Silmarillion<br \/>\n<strong><del datetime=\"2007-10-12T10:11:16+00:00\">Life of Pi : a novel<\/del><\/strong> (I wish I hadn&#8217;t finished this, because I got really pissed off by the ending.)<br \/>\nThe Name of the Rose<br \/>\nDon Quixote<br \/>\nMoby-Dick<br \/>\nUlysses<br \/>\nThe Odyssey<br \/>\nPride and Prejudice<br \/>\n<strong>Jane Eyre<\/strong><br \/>\nA Tale of Two Cities<br \/>\nThe Brothers Karamazov<br \/>\nGuns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies<br \/>\nWar and Peace<br \/>\nVanity Fair<br \/>\n<strong>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/strong>*<br \/>\nThe Iliad<br \/>\nEmma<br \/>\nThe Blind Assassin<br \/>\nThe Kite Runner<br \/>\nMrs. Dalloway<br \/>\nGreat Expectations<br \/>\nAmerican Gods<br \/>\nAtlas Shrugged<br \/>\nReading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books<br \/>\nMemoirs of a Geisha<br \/>\nMiddlesex<br \/>\nQuicksilver<br \/>\nWicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West<br \/>\nThe Canterbury Tales<br \/>\nThe Historian: a novel<br \/>\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br \/>\nLove in the Time of Cholera<br \/>\nBrave New World<br \/>\nThe Fountainhead<br \/>\nFoucault&#8217;s Pendulum<br \/>\nMiddlemarch<br \/>\n<em>Frankenstein<\/em><br \/>\nThe Count of Monte Cristo<br \/>\nDracula<br \/>\nA Clockwork Orange<br \/>\nAnansi Boys<br \/>\nThe Once and Future King<br \/>\nThe Grapes of Wrath<br \/>\n<em>The Poisonwood Bible: a novel<\/em><br \/>\n1984<br \/>\n<strong>Angels &#038; Demons<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Inferno<br \/>\nThe Satanic Verses<br \/>\nSense and Sensibility<br \/>\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray<br \/>\nMansfield Park<br \/>\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<br \/>\nTo the Lighthouse<br \/>\nTess of the D&#8217;Urbevilles<br \/>\nOliver Twist<br \/>\nGulliver&#8217;s Travels<br \/>\nLes Mis\u00e9rables<br \/>\nThe Corrections<br \/>\nThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<br \/>\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<br \/>\n<u>Dune<\/u> (Daniel has read this multiple times, and I&#8217;ve read bits and pieces over his shoulder and had it all explained to me, so eventually I will read it for myself.)<br \/>\nThe Prince<br \/>\nThe Sound and the Fury<br \/>\nAngela&#8217;s Ashes : A Memoir<br \/>\nThe God of Small Things<br \/>\nA People&#8217;s History of the United States: 1492-present<br \/>\nCryptonomicon<br \/>\nNeverwhere<br \/>\nA Confederacy of Dunces<br \/>\nA Short History of Nearly Everything<br \/>\nDubliners<br \/>\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being<br \/>\nBeloved<br \/>\nSlaughterhouse-Five<br \/>\nThe Scarlet Letter<br \/>\n<em>Eats, Shoots &#038; Leaves<\/em><br \/>\nThe Mists of Avalon<br \/>\nOryx and Crake: a novel<br \/>\nCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed &#8211; Need to find my copy and finish it.<br \/>\nCloud Atlas<br \/>\nThe Confusion<br \/>\nLolita<br \/>\nPersuasion<br \/>\nNorthanger Abbey<br \/>\nThe Catcher in the Rye<br \/>\nOn the Road<br \/>\nThe Hunchback of Notre Dame<br \/>\nFreakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<br \/>\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values<br \/>\nThe Aeneid<br \/>\nWatership Down<br \/>\nGravity&#8217;s Rainbow<br \/>\nThe Hobbit<br \/>\nWhite Teeth<br \/>\nTreasure Island<br \/>\nDavid Copperfield<br \/>\n<u>The Three Musketeers<\/u> (My first ship was called D`Artagnan, after the other musketeer, and I have been meaning to read Dumas&#8217; stories for a long time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, since everyone else is doing it too: The top 106 books most often marked as &#8216;unread&#8217; by LibraryThing&#8217;s users (as of today) As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn&#8217;t finish, and strike through what you couldn&#8217;t stand. 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