This is a extract from a Librarything.com blog about the top 106 unread books on their system (106?...I don'tknow either). Below is my take and the overall assessment which suggests that I only have 10 books that have been on my TBR pile for more two years
We've been meaning to blog this for a while, so here it is! This meme has been going around for a while now: Top 106 unread books on LibraryThing. People are going through the top 106 books tagged "unread" on LT, and then marking which ones they've read, which they read for school, which they started but didn't finish, which are on their to read list, which they loathed, which they read more than once...
Read and Enjoyed: 41 Awaiting: 6 Never/Abandoned 20TBR<> 29 TBR> 2 years: 10
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams (43)
Read and enjoyed but having read his biog not sure if he is talented as the hype says
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236)
Read and enjoyed and it is not slow!
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (19)
Sigh… have but no urge to read
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211)
Read and enjoyed several times
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (17)
Over hyped twaddle and abandon
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (152)
One day...one day
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (176)
One day...one day
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183)
One day...one day
Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (115)
Read and enjoyed several times
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155)
Read and enjoyed several times…yes really
Ulysses by James Joyce (135)
One day...one day...maybe
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (132)
Read and enjoyed several times-just skip the long essays he drops in
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (132)
One day...one day
The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (136)
One day...one day
Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller (158)
Read and enjoyed several times
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (162)
Read and enjoyed several times
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (110)
One day...one day
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson (92)
One day…one day
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (124)
Run a mile away from reading any Dickens
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (88)
Unreadable rubbish
Middlemarch by George Eliot (96)
Tried three times and have never got past half way
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi (96)
One day...one day
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (120)
Read and enjoyed several times-the film is ok too
The Kor'an by Anonymous (11)
Er… don’t we know who wrote it?...but have not read
Moby *** by Herman Melville (119)
One day...one day
Read and enjoyed…rosy fingers of dawn etc
The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (108)
Yes…and in Middle English!
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (114)
One day...one day
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (75)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (108)
Read and enjoyed
Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (101)
One day...one day
Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (102)
Over dead body- men in white coats territory
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (67)
Dreary may work as an audio book
The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (87)
One day...one day
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (95)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (94)
The One day...one day
Read and enjoyed… friendship, love of men for war etc
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (97)
One day...one day
Emma by Jane Austen (117)
Read and enjoyed
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (64)
Read and enjoyed…several times
Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (69)
Read and enjoyed…several times
Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (88)
Read and enjoyed
The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (62)
Never had any interest in wanting to
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (104)
Read and enjoyed
Dracula by Bram Stoker (100)
One day…one day
Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (73)
Read and enjoyed
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (97)
Read and enjoyed
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (83)
Argggggg Dickens
The once and future king by T. H. White (81)
Read and enjoyed …several times
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (82)
Yes but a bit theological
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (83)
One day…one day
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (88)
Read and enjoyed
Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (78)
Er… never heard of it
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (106)
Argggggg Dickens
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (56)
One day…one day
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (83)
Loathe Hardy even more then Dickens
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (76)
One day…one day
The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (84)
One day…one day
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (58)
One day…one day
Underworld by Don DeLillo (64)
Lost the will to live about a 1/3 of the way through
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (63)
The same ilk as Dickens and Hardy
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99)
One day…one day
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (124)
Read and enjoyed
The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (47)
Read and enjoyed several times
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (66)
Read and enjoyed
Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (65)
Loathe Hardy even more then Dickens
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (62)
One day…one day
Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (66)
One day…one day
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (89)
Read and enjoyed
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (59)
Read and enjoyed
The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri (63)
One day…one day
The inferno by Dante Alighieri (84)
One day…one day
Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (66)
One day…one day
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (83)
Over dead body- men in white coats territory
Swann's way by Marcel Proust (59)
One day…one day…if can over find all the volumes
The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (91)
One day…one day
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (83)
One day…one day
Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (96)
Read and enjoyed many times
The portrait of a lady by Henry James (62)
One day…one day
Silas Marner by George Eliot (57)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (89)
Read and enjoyed
The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas (43)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (80)
Read and enjoyed but strange prose
The book thief by Markus Zusak (67)
Read and enjoyed
The confusion by Neal Stephenson (61)
One day…one day
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (82)
Read and enjoyed
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (97)
One day…one day
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (63)
Argggggg Dickens
The system of the world by Neal Stephenson (55)
One day…one day
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene (60)
One day…one day
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (78)
One day…one day
The known world by Edward P. Jones (53)
One day…one day
The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (105)
Read and enjoyed
The mill on the Floss by George Eliot (54)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64)
One day…one day
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (47)
One day…one day
Dubliners by James Joyce (78)
One day…one day…maybe
Les misérables by Victor Hugo (73)
One day…one day
The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan (56)
Never had any interest in wanting to
Infinite jest : a novel by David Foster Wallace (54)
One day…one day
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (53)
Read and enjoyed
Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (77)
One day…one day
Persuasion by Jane Austen (82)
Read and enjoyed
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (83)
Read and enjoyed
The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (69)
Argggggg Dickens
Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller (54)
Read and enjoyed
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