These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk [*] to those you've read more than once. Underline what's on your 'to read someday' list.


1984*
Aeneid, The (Not as good as Homer, if you ask me)
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela's Ashes: a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
Blind Assassin, The
Brave New World*
Brothers Karamazov, The
Canterbury Tales, The
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye, The******* and one white tree. A classic deserving of the name.
Clockwork Orange, A
Cloud Atlas
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Confusion, The
Corrections, The
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune (I'm with you on this one, Logan)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma (A level set text. Annoyingly winsome.)
Foucault's Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein (yes, I know. Shocking of me)
Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
God of Small Things, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Gravity's Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver's Travels (Political satire rarely ages well)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A
Historian, The: a novel
Hobbit, The*
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Iliad, The
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences* (by coincidence, reread today on the train)
Inferno, The
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Kite Runner, The
Les Misérables
Life of Pi: a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mists of Avalon, The
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Name of the Rose, The
Neverwhere (Couldn't get into it somehow)
Northanger Abbey (Emma was bad enough...)
Odyssey, The
Oliver Twist
On the Road
Once and Future King, The
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake: a novel  (Never, never, never! It has no talking squids in outer space!)
People's History of the United States, A: 1492-present
Persuasion
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Poisonwood Bible: a novel, The
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
Pride and Prejudice
Prince, The (Simon rates this highly)
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Satanic Verses, The
Scarlet Letter, The
Sense and Sensibility
Short History of Nearly Everything, A
Silmarillion, The (Actually, Logan, I read it cover to cover before my teens...)
Slaughterhouse Five
Sound and the Fury, The
Tale of Two Cities, A
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Risibly badly written and plotted)
Three Musketeers, The
Time Traveler's Wife, The
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island* (Arrrr, Jim lad.)
Ulysses
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down* (Mais bien sur!)
White Teeth
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values (Another of Simon's I've not got round to)