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Unfinished books meme

According to Kim these are the top 106 most unfinished books according to LibraryThing.



Bold are the ones I've read. Strike-through indicates I started but didn't finish. I've also noted the ones I read for school. Yeah, I'm doing my formatting different.




  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • Anna Karenina (school)

  • Crime and Punishment

  • Catch-22 (don't remember it though)

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • Wuthering Heights

  • The Silmarillion

  • Life of Pi : a novel

  • The Name of the Rose

  • Don Quixote

  • Moby Dick

  • Ulysses

  • Madame Bovary (school)

  • The Odyssey

  • Pride and Prejudice

  • Jane Eyre

  • The Tale of Two Cities

  • The Brothers Karamazov (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies

  • War and Peace

  • Vanity Fair

  • The Time Traveler’s Wife (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • The Iliad

  • Emma

  • The Blind Assassin (I'll get back to again some day)

  • The Kite Runner

  • Mrs. Dalloway

  • Great Expectations

  • American Gods

  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

  • Atlas Shrugged (I need to read this so I understand the kooky side of libertarians)

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books

  • Memoirs of a Geisha (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • Middlesex (was thinking about making this my next book)

  • 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 (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • Love in the Time of Cholera

  • Brave New World (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • The Fountainhead (same comment as previous Ayn Rand book)

  • Foucault’s Pendulum

  • Middlemarch (school)

  • Frankenstein

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Dracula (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • A Clockwork Orange

  • Anansi Boys

  • The Once and Future King (might have read this)

  • The Grapes of Wrath (school)

  • The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • 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 (school)

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  • Oliver Twist

  • Gulliver’s Travels

  • Les Misérables

  • 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 (can't remember if I finished this, so it goes here for now)

  • A Confederacy of Dunces (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

  • Dubliners

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • Beloved

  • Slaughterhouse-five

  • The Scarlet Letter (school)

  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves (currently own, haven't gotten to it yet)

  • 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

  • Watership Down (school)

  • Gravity’s Rainbow

  • The Hobbit

  • In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

  • White Teeth

  • Treasure Island

  • David Copperfield

  • The Three Musketeers

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