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Found this at tobey’s.

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Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Them Silly List of Books

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I’m guessing I’ve read this thrice. The appendices probably more.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (And this is here because?)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (The problem with having seen the film first is that Atticus has to look like GregoryPeck in your head.)
6. The Bible (Not all of it you understand. Favorite bit - Ecclesiastes)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (And this was a decade before that year actually hit.)
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (In progress)
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I loved it at the time. But then I was 16 so I doubt I’d underline this now.)
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (I already knew that the very rich could be horrible people but it was a good reminder)
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Especially the Vogon Poetry)
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (Isn’t this covered in 33?)
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (Why is this here?)
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (The movie wasn’t as funny as the book. What do you mean it’s not supposed to be a comedy? Why is this here?)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (High school assignment)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (You see it’s really a book about writing as process of redemption.)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (Have you ever noticed that all the greatest sci-fi novels are really about religion?)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Pomo gothic-horror about a writer in Barcelona.)
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (Seen both film and mini-series though.)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (And apart from all the Shakesperean references – starting with the title – have you ever noticed that all the great sci-fi stories are really about religion?)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (small man tries to teach big man to stop killing his pet mice.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (How to get even. Really even. Keep notes since you will lose track of who did what to him to deserve what he does to them.)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (There’s too much chick-lit here already.)
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdied 
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (there are really only two novels, MD and Don Quixote. Everything else is just gravy.)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker (I’m still wondering why I haven’t)
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce (I’m still wondering why I haven’t)
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (It has it’s moments. But you have to try to stop laughing at others.)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (Maybe 10 times. Well it’s short.)
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams 
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (The humor here is intentional.)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (But there’s a “Complete Works” up there!)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo 

 

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And just to let everyone understand that it’s a dumb list, here are some missing in action (that I’ve read):

Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man & The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (Ok, I had my EH period)
 The World According to Garp – John Irving
Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (Okay, add this to DQ and MB)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll 
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig (Look for this in Fully Booked in the Philosophy Section.)
The Once and Future King – T. H. White
Morte d’ Arthur – Thomas Mallory (Now what made me think of that?)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach (I just thought I’d throw that in since everyone wanted to choose this for a book report in high school for very understandable reasons, until the teacher got wise and banned book reports of it. I was intending to do “Old Man & The Sea” anyway. It’s also short. Having said that, I did really enjoy the story of the little seagull that went splat! and became a Christ-like ghost symbol to the other seagulls.)
Stranger In a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (I grok it)
I, Claudius – Robert Graves
 

 Okay I’m tired. Enough trying to remember every book I’ve ever  liked.

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