{"id":1122,"date":"2007-10-02T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/10\/02\/106-books\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T00:08:37","slug":"106-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"106 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought this was cool, so I stole it from Limax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. I’ve bolded what I’ve read and italicized what I started but couldn’t finish (some italicized I read excerpts of in school). I put an asterisk by the ones we have in our library.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell<\/em>*
\nAnna Karenina*
\nCrime and Punishment<\/strong>*
\nCatch-22*
\nOne hundred years of solitude<\/em>*
\nWuthering Heights
\n<\/strong>The Silmarillion
\nLife of Pi : a novel
\nThe Name of the Rose
\nDon Quixote
\nMoby Dick
\nUlysses<\/em>
\nMadame Bovary<\/strong>
\nThe Odyssey<\/em>
\nPride and Prejudice
\nJane Eyre
\nThe Tale of Two Cities
\n<\/strong>The Brothers Karamazov
\nGuns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
\nWar and peace
\nVanity fair
\nThe time traveler’s wife<\/strong>*
\nThe Iliad<\/em>
\nEmma
\nThe Blind Assassin
\nThe kite runner <\/strong>*
\nMrs. Dalloway
\nGreat expectations<\/strong>
\nAmerican gods*
\nA heartbreaking work of staggering genius<\/strong>**
\nAtlas shrugged*<\/em>
\nReading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
\nMemoirs of a Geisha<\/strong>*
\nMiddlesex
\nQuicksilver*
\nWicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
\nThe Canterbury tales<\/em>
\nThe historian : a novel<\/em>
\nA portrait of the artist as a young man*
\nLove in the time of cholera
\nBrave new world*
\nThe Fountainhead<\/strong>*
\nFoucault’s pendulum
\nMiddlemarch
\nFrankenstein
\nThe Count of Monte Cristo
\nDracula
\nA clockwork orange
\nAnansi boys*
\nThe once and future king
\nThe grapes of wrath<\/strong>*
\nThe Poisonwood Bible : a novel<\/em>*
\n1984*
\nAngels & demons
\nThe inferno
\nThe satanic verses
\nSense and sensibility<\/strong>
\nThe picture of Dorian Gray
\nMansfield Park
\nOne flew over the cuckoo’s nest*
\nTo the lighthouse
\nTess of the D’Urbervilles
\nOliver Twist
\nGulliver’s travels
\nLes mis\u00c3\u00a9rables
\nThe corrections<\/strong>*
\nThe amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/strong>*
\nThe curious incident of the dog in the night-time<\/strong>*
\nDune*
\nThe prince*
\nThe sound and the fury
\nAngela’s ashes : a memoir
\nThe god of small things*
\nA people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
\nCryptonomicon*
\nNeverwhere*
\nA confederacy of dunces*
\nA short history of nearly everything
\nDubliners*
\nThe unbearable lightness of being
\nBeloved
\nSlaughterhouse-five<\/strong>
\nThe Scarlet Letter<\/strong>*
\nEats, Shoots & Leaves
\nThe Mists of Avalon
\nOryx and Crake : a novel
\nCollapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
\nCloud atlas
\nThe confusion*
\nLolita
\nPersuasion<\/em>*
\nNorthanger abbey
\nThe catcher in the rye<\/strong>*
\nOn the road*
\nThe hunchback of Notre Dame
\nFreakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
\nZen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
\nThe Aeneid
\nWatership Down
\nGravity’s rainbow
\nThe Hobbit*
\nIn cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
\nWhite teeth
\nTreasure Island
\nDavid Copperfield
\nThe Three Musketeers*<\/p>\n

I thought I was decently well read but not according to this list. At least I know now what I can find in our house when I don’t have anything to read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought this was cool, so I stole it from Limax. These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. I’ve bolded what I’ve read and italicized what I started but couldn’t finish (some italicized I read excerpts of in school). I put an asterisk by the ones we have … Continue reading 106 Books<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t