Stealing from the Jones's
Or, actually, the Ducks.Ahem. Meme meme meme meme meme...
Bold the books you have read.* Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Underline the books you have on your shelf to read or have started reading.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
*I'm taking this to mean read, as in I have looked at most of the pages and read the beginning and the end--which is how I read most things. If it means "sitting down and reading from the beginning to the end" I don't get to check off any of them, and that's no fun.
posted by Elizabeth @ 6:30 PM
2 Comments:
You'd probably like Philip Pullman and his trilogy. I actually like his other (earlier, I think?) books as well. About HDM, I say "probably" since it appears to be one of those series which polarises people and turns mates into argumentative enemies.
Dan Brown: I read both of those when I was in OOD. Not many books in OOD though, for reasons I can't fathom, their local library had the Dan Brown collection. The Card book is actually one I began but never finished (got bored halfway through and wandered off to read something even more frivolous) as is Garcia Marquez's (though I'm reading his latest right now)
Golden: apparently it's all about the "oppression" of women.
I've not read the Sebold one, Niffenegger or Zafon (Never even heard of those) or any of Vonnegut's books (though always meant to) but think everything else has passed through my hands at one time or another. We actually had to read Dune for one of my undergrad classes. I liked the TV series better.
I shudder to think about the possibility that I've read more of these than I remember. This is evidence enough that I have no life.
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