This is a list of the 106 books most often tagged unread at Librarything.com. Instead of using the original list of 106 books that's making the rounds, I decided to follow the link above and see what the top 106 TBR books are today.
Here are the RULES:
BOLD=books you've read
ITALICS=books you started but couldn't or didn't finish
CROSSED OUT = books you hated (finished or unfinished)
*STARRED*=you've read more than once
UNDERLINED=books on your TBR list (books you own but haven't read, yet)
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236/9149)
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211/9094) Still working on it!
3. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183/12150)
4. Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (176/10819)
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (162/12301)
6. Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller (158/11030)
7. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155/8902)
8. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (152/6762)
9. The Odyssey by Homer (136/11098)
10. The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (136/7268)
11. Ulysses by James Joyce (135/6328)
12. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (132/6056)
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (132/6354)
14. A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (124/7549)
15. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (124/13942)
16. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (120/7814)
17. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (119/7820)
18. Emma by Jane Austen (117/9268)
19. The Iliad by Homer (117/8826)
20. Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (115/3868)
21. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (114/7250)
22. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (110/4880)
23. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (108/18594)
24. The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (108/6552)
25. The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (108/6245)
26. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (106/13834)
27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (106/8705)
28. Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (105/12860)
29. The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (105/11552)
30. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (104/7588)
31. Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (102/6065)
32. Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (101/5684)
33. Dracula by Bram Stoker (100/6985)
34. The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99/7915)
35. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (97/9249)
36. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (97/6516)
37. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (97/5644)
38. Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (96/8733)
39. Middlemarch by George Eliot (96/4213)
41. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (95/5243)
42. The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (94/5109)
43. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (94/11755)
44. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (93/12580)
45. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (92/4083)
46. American gods : a novel by Neil Gaiman (92/10481)
47. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (91/9007)
*48. The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (91/7555)*
49. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West… by Gregory Maguire (90/9003)
50. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (89/7264)
51. Dune by Frank Herbert (89/9351)
52. A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (89/6725)
53. The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (88/3289)
54. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (88/5444)
55. Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (88/4922)
56. The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (87/4191)
57. The inferno by Dante Alighieri (84/5935)
58. The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (84/5116)
59. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (83/6039)
60. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (83/5878)
61. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (83/4794)
62. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (83/4450)
63. To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (83/4672)
64. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (83/6844)
65. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (82/4498)
66. Persuasion by Jane Austen (82/6579)
67. The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (82/7853)
68. One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (82/5978)
69. The once and future king by T. H. White (81/4349)
70. Anansi boys : a novel by Neil Gaiman (81/6623)
71. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (80/7107)
72. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (80/5585)
73. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson (79/6377)
74. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (78/6165)
75. Dubliners by James Joyce (78/5605)
76. Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (78/4038)
77. Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt (77/6434)
78. Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (77/5605)
79. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (76/3880)
80. The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (75/2553)
81. In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its… by Truman Capote (75/5565)
82. Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (73/3219)
84. Les misérables by Victor Hugo (73/4766)
85. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (72/6753)
86. The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (72/6444)
87. Watership Down by Richard Adams (72/6324)
88. Beowulf : a new verse translation by Anonymous (72/6418)
89. The Aeneid by Virgil (71/5121)
90. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (71/5187)
91. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig (71/5618)
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (69/4698)
93. The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (69/4375)
94. Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (69/2597)
95. Possession : a romance by A.S. Byatt (67/4178)
96. The book thief by Markus Zusak (67/3676)
97. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (67/2163)
98. The road by Cormac McCarthy (67/5245)
99. Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (66/3176)
100. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (66/3103)
101. Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (66/3305)
102. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro (65/4379)
103. The plague by Albert Camus (65/4664)
104. Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire (65/5137)
105. Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (65/2980)
106. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64/3376)
If you participate in this meme, let me know so I can see what you're reading...or NOT reading. :)
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