Tagged Unread

1st May 2008 with 1 Comment

LibraryThing’s list of books tagged unread by its members is fascinating reading. Here’s the top ten, but the rest of this very long list is even more revealing:
Most often tagged unread
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236/9020)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211/8930)
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183/11948)
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