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from darcydodo

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

I honestly do not understand what some of these are doing on this list. (And where's all the James Michener? [I'm not dissing him--I've read and liked a lot of his stuff, and it's given me an appreciation for various aspects of history that I haven't acquired elsewhere--but he does write tomes.])

On reflection--to be fair--I suspect that the original poster (not darcydodo) left out two big reasons why people might have bought some of these books but not read them: recommended by friends with different tastes, or simply not _yet_ read them. I dislike the serious implication of pretension (as distinct from my own humorous self-deprecation in the subject line).

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