Another one...
bold = read it, loved it
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* Emma
* Sense and Sensibility (read it, saw the movie, saw the masterpiece series, read it again, read it again, own about four copies, need to see the keira version)
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
Danielle’s addition: Definitely on my list to read:
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Mansfield Park (the only Austen I haven’t read, and I need to read it so I can see the movies afterwards. :D)
* Angels & Demons
* Lolita
italics = never read it but think I ought to
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* The Odyssey
* War and Peace
* The Iliad
* Great Expectation
* Oliver Twist
* Gulliver’s Travels
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers
red = read part of it and disliked it so much I didn't finish it
Danielle: Read, but not finished:
* Les Misérables (DID NOT dislike it… it was just long, and summer was over and I only got halfway through it, need to pick it up and finish the other half- of course, I have seen the movie version, the concert play version, and a play performance of it, and own the soundtrack and written a story with Javert as a character)
blue = read it, it was OK
Wuthering Heights
· Madame Bovary (was NOT okay. Hated it)
* Frankenstein - school book, forced too. Was okay.
· * The Inferno -school book, blergh.
· The Scarlet Letter - school book. Double blergh.
green = only have a vague idea of what it's about, may or may not read it
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Tale of Two Cities
* The Kite Runner
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
* The Canterbury tales
* Middlemarch
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* 1984
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves
* The Catcher in the Rye
underline = saw the movie, won't bother reading it
· Vanity Fair (movie was long and complicated. Maybe I should give it another chance?)
* The Grapes of Wrath (surprisingly, I didn’t really like it but I wrote 2-3 essays on it. It’s a good book to write about. Ha ha).
no formatting = never read it and don't intend to
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Catch-22
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* The Silmarillion
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* The Time Traveler’s Wife
* The Blind Assassin
* Mrs. Dalloway
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New world
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* The Satanic Verses
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
* Dune
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
* Cryptonomicon
* Neverwhere
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-five
* The Mists of Avalon
* Oryx and Crake : a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* On the Road
* Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
* White Teeth