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
