The books everyone starts and no one finishes | The Independent

Tsundoku: a Japanese term for the habit of buying books, then leaving them unread in a pile. 1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 3. Ulysses by James Joyce 4. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 5. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The constantly changing aspect of (not) reading books means that statistics on which ones are the most unread/least finished are
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-to-read-unread-tsundoku-hawking-index-malcolm-cowley-antilibrary-a8521901.html

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