LIbrary Thing's Top 106 unread books

Here is a recent list of the top unread books in people's library. It is all the rage, evidently, to take this list and personalize it as follows:

• bold = books you have read
• italicize = books you’ve started but not finished (abandoned)
• strike = books you read but hated
• asterisk* = books you’ve read more than once
• underline = books you own but still haven’t read yourself

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte**

6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

7. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

9. The Odyssey by Homer

10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

11. Ulysses by James Joyce

12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

14. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

15. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

16. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

17. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville

18. Emma by Jane Austen

19. The Iliad by Homer

20. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

21. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

22. The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

23. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen**

24. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

25. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

26. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

28. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

29. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

30. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

31. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

32. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

33. Dracula by Bram Stoker**

34. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

35. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

36. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

37. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

38. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

39. Middlemarch by George Eliot

40. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

41. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

42. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

43. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

44. Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley

45. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

46. American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

47. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

48. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

49. Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

51. Dune, (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert

52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

53. The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

54. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

55. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

56. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

57. Inferno by Dante

58. The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

59. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

60. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

61. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy**

62. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

63. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

64. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

65. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

66. Persuasion by Jane Austen

67. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

68. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: by Ken Kesey

69. Once and Future King by T. H. White

70. Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

71. Atonement by Ian Mcewan

72. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

73. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

74. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

75. Dubliners by James Joyce

76. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

77. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

78. Beloved by Toni Morrison

79. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

80. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

81. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

82. Lady Chatterley's Lover (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by D. H. Lawrence

83. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

84. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

85. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by PHILIP PULLMAN

86. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

87. Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

88. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

89. The Aeneid: by Virgil

90. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

91. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

93. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

94. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

95. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

96. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

97. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding

98. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

99. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

100. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

101. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

102. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

103. The Plague by Albert Camus **

104. Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire

105. Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy

106. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje

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I Distinctly Remember

The first time I saw Michael Jackson moonwalk. My Dad was in the kitchen making popcorn and my mother just about had a coronary trying to get him to get back in the living room and see it. We all thought it was supernatural. Even now, I have never seen anyone moonwalk like Michael.