Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Book List

  OK, here's me breaking one of my rules again. I don't usually do these blog 'memes,' but reading is somewhat of a passion for me. I pilfered this list from Elizabeth's journal. She doesn't know where she got it, but I think we can safely say it's been floating around the blogosphere for some time. Liz has surmised that it's a list of classics, and it may have started out that way, but that description no longer applies. I mean, it's got Harry Potter on it, doesn't it? I have simplified it somewhat as I'm not going to separate the titles into favourites, super favourites, and ultimate all time favourites. I'll just mark off the ones I've read. Another twist: I've added several books to the list that weren't previously on it, but that I recommend. If you want to know which ones, you'll have to copy the list off of Elizabeth yourself and compare. On second thought, it may just be obvious.

Bold  = Books I've read

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay 
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
 
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Last Light Of The Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Lions Of Al Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blighton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Song For Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne

The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

  I do not have any body modifications, although I'm trying to lose a few pounds.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey thanks for the comment in my journal.  I'm glad I could inspire you.  I actually had to compare your list to mine side by side to see which ones you added, although some were obvious (like the 5th Harry Potter which I didn't even think to add).  I just started a new journal where I write about the books I read.  Come by and check it out if you like  http://journals.aol.com/Skycladbythemoon/Bookshelf/
~Liz  

Anonymous said...

I agree that the descriptor of 'classics' no longer applies.  There are some good reads on there though.  'The Alchemist' is one that I've read fairly recently and would highly recommend to you.  You can knock it off easily in a day and it's a good one to keep going back to.

I'm pretty sure I know which books you included without going to Elizabeth's list to compare.  :)

Simon

http://simianfarmer.blogs.com

Anonymous said...

There are books on that list that I've read and you haven't and vice-versa, books that I feel guilty for not having read, and books I'm glad not to have read. What, if anything, does that prove? If I've never read Dune or anything by *your favorite writer*, does that make me an sf/fantasy illiterate?  Is it wrong of me not to read more Dickens? Tolstoy? Should I hang my head in shame, or just shrug? - Karen

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness you included the "disclaimer" that the description of classics no longer applies! LOL.  I believe I have read 33 of them.  Surprised you have not read "Ulysses".....just kidding.

Anonymous said...

Hello there; I saw your comment in KCtoonguy's journal and came to check you out.  So many journals, so little time!