The top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users:

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - don't know much about it
Anna Karenina @
Crime and Punishment @
Catch-22 @
One Hundred Years of Solitude @
Wuthering Heights - I refuse to read it.
The Silmarillion @ - A Christmas gift from my mom.
Life of Pi : a novel @
The Name of the Rose @ - a "borrowed" copy that hasn't been returned... or read.
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities @
The Brothers Karamazov @
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace @
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife - I didn't finish it because I chose not to; it was a depressing book.
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner @
Mrs. Dalloway @
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged @
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera @
Brave New World
The Fountainhead @
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange @
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath @
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 @
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist @
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables - I'm not sure how to categorize this book; I've been working through for three years now, but I don't consider it abandoned. Just not finished.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince *
The Sound and the Fury @
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present @
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere @
A Confederacy of Dunces @
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being @
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves @
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield @
The Three Musketeers