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The Meme of Unread Books

Nicholas Whyte points out that you can search through the contents of LibraryThing to produce a list of the top 10,000 unread books. Here’s the first 100. Those in bold, I’ve read; those in italic, I’ve started but couldn’t finish…
 
  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
  2. Anna Karenina (132)
  3. Crime and punishment (121)
  4. Catch-22 (117)
  5. One hundred years of solitude (115)
  6. Wuthering Heights (110)
  7. (No title) (104)
  8. Life of Pi : a novel (94)
  9. The name of the rose (91)
  10. Don Quixote (91)
  11. Moby Dick (86)
  12. Ulysses (84)
  13. Madame Bovary (83)
  14. The Odyssey (83)
  15. Pride and prejudice (83)
  16. Jane Eyre (80)
  17. A tale of two cities (80)
  18. The brothers Karamazov (80)
  19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
  20. War and peace (78)
  21. Vanity fair (74)
  22. The time traveler’s wife (73)
  23. The Iliad (73)
  24. Emma (73)
  25. The Blind Assassin (73)
  26. The kite runner (71)
  27. Mrs. Dalloway (70)
  28. Great expectations (70)
  29. American gods : a novel (68)
  30. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
  31. Atlas shrugged (67)
  32. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
  33. Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
  34. Middlesex (66)
  35. Quicksilver (66)
  36. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West … (65)
  37. The Canterbury tales (64)
  38. The historian : a novel (63)
  39. A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
  40. Love in the time of cholera (62)
  41. Brave new world (61)
  42. The Fountainhead (61)
  43. Foucault’s pendulum (61)
  44. Middlemarch (61)
  45. Frankenstein (59)
  46. The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
  47. Dracula (59)
  48. A clockwork orange (59)
  49. Anansi boys : a novel (58)
  50. The once and future king (57)
  51. The grapes of wrath (57)
  52. The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
  53. 1984 (57)
  54. Angels & demons (56)
  55. The inferno (56)
  56. The satanic verses (55)
  57. Sense and sensibility (55)
  58. The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
  59. Mansfield Park (55)
  60. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (54)
  61. To the lighthouse (54)
  62. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (54)
  63. Oliver Twist (54)
  64. Gulliver’s travels (53)
  65. Les misérables (53)
  66. The corrections (53)
  67. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel (52)
  68. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)
  69. Dune (51)
  70. The prince (51)
  71. The sound and the fury (51)
  72. Angela’s ashes : a memoir (51)
  73. The god of small things (51)
  74. A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
  75. Cryptonomicon (50)
  76. Neverwhere (50)
  77. A confederacy of dunces (50)
  78. A short history of nearly everything (50)
  79. Dubliners (50)
  80. The unbearable lightness of being (49)
  81. Beloved : a novel (49)
  82. Slaughterhouse-five (49)
  83. The scarlet letter (48)
  84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu… (48)
  85. The mists of Avalon (47)
  86. Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
  87. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
  88. Cloud atlas : a novel (47)
  89. The confusion (46)
  90. Lolita (46)
  91. Persuasion (46)
  92. Northanger abbey (46)
  93. The catcher in the rye (46)
  94. On the road (46)
  95. The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
  96. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of… (45)
  97. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into … (45)
  98. The Aeneid (45)
  99. Watership Down (44)
  100. Gravity’s rainbow (44)

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