Bookish Things
I decided on a whim to do a 100 books reading project. That way I can fail marvelously!
I figure even if I don't complete it, it may as well push me to actually getting some more reading done and improving my collection of literature. So its win-win! Plus, its fun and I love starting new projects and never finishing them. (Proof being I currently have one wall painted in my room, so it is all splotches of white and purple. I just haven't gotten around to doing the second coat yet... or the other walls. Sigh.)
Anyways, I had no problem at all sitting down and slamming out a list of 80 books. I figured with the last twenty I would just go book browsing and see what caught my attention. But then I thought - friends list!
All of you are smarties and love reading and have amazing taste! So recommend books for me to add to the final twenty if you could! Favorite books, books you think just have to be read, or just something you like or I would like for that matter (I love history, mythology, fiction, psychology, philosophy, romance, classics, fairy-tales ...actually I'm completely unpicky!) My mind is...kind of exhausted trying to think of anymore at this point - so!
Give me ideas lovelies, please please!
These aren't even remotely in order and some of them I've already started on or own, some are just books I have left to read in series I started forever ago. Or classics I just never picked up. A few, very few are ones I have read before.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (O)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (O)
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman (O)
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami (O)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (O) [ Finished ]
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (O)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (O)
A Guide to Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux (O)
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends by Lewis Spence (O)
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (O)
Violin by Anne Rice (O)
Dreams by C.G. Jung (O)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung (O)
Ghosts by Hanz Holzer (O)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (O)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (O)
The Odyssey by Homer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (O)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien (O)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbek
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Good Omens - Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger (O) [ Finished ]
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dracula by Bram Stroker
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Persuasion by Jane Austen (O)
Emma by Jane Austen (O)
Romeo and Juliet by Willian Shakespeare
Anansi boys by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, and Gyurme Dorje
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book 2 by Lian Hearn
Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori, Book 3 by Lian Hearn
The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori by Lian Hearn
Heaven's Net is Wide (The Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
PSIence by Marie D. Jones
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by The Dalai Lama
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Dorothy and the Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1776 by David McCullough
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (O)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That May Just Not by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert (O)
Alex and Me by Irene M. Pepperberg
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian
The Hour I first believed by Wally Lamb
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Pygmalion by Georga Benard Shaw
The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
Watership Down by by Richard Adams
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
The last twenty are up in the air. I keep getting the nagging feeling I'm leaving out some really great things. Books that just aren't coming to mind! Granted, there is a lot of classics and really great books I have already read. But still!
Suggest suggest suggest, darlings!
Edit: Finished! Thank you lovelies! <3 I can finally get started now!
Oh, and randomly its getting to be summer and its so LOVELY out and it smells nice because there are flowers and greenery and I love it. I plan to buy a hammock at some point and just take afternoon naps in the yard. How can I not!? Plus I need a little sun anyways, god knows I'm insanely pale. Not that I mind - I actually think pale is pretty. UM. I can't think of anything else important. Had a slight spiritual breakthrough a few days ago that was really weird idk.
and there are bugs everywhere I hate them. Off to be lazy and useless now! ♥
omg and i swear ill get to replying to comments at some point guys. :( I seriously just have a one track mind.
(ALSO I HAVE WIZARD OF OZ ICONS why didn't this happen 424234234234 years ago. My delight knows no bounds)
I figure even if I don't complete it, it may as well push me to actually getting some more reading done and improving my collection of literature. So its win-win! Plus, its fun and I love starting new projects and never finishing them. (Proof being I currently have one wall painted in my room, so it is all splotches of white and purple. I just haven't gotten around to doing the second coat yet... or the other walls. Sigh.)
Anyways, I had no problem at all sitting down and slamming out a list of 80 books. I figured with the last twenty I would just go book browsing and see what caught my attention. But then I thought - friends list!
All of you are smarties and love reading and have amazing taste! So recommend books for me to add to the final twenty if you could! Favorite books, books you think just have to be read, or just something you like or I would like for that matter (I love history, mythology, fiction, psychology, philosophy, romance, classics, fairy-tales ...actually I'm completely unpicky!) My mind is...kind of exhausted trying to think of anymore at this point - so!
Give me ideas lovelies, please please!
These aren't even remotely in order and some of them I've already started on or own, some are just books I have left to read in series I started forever ago. Or classics I just never picked up. A few, very few are ones I have read before.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (O)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (O)
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman (O)
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami (O)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (O) [ Finished ]
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (O)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (O)
A Guide to Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux (O)
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends by Lewis Spence (O)
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (O)
Violin by Anne Rice (O)
Dreams by C.G. Jung (O)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung (O)
Ghosts by Hanz Holzer (O)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (O)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (O)
The Odyssey by Homer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (O)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien (O)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbek
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Good Omens - Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger (O) [ Finished ]
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dracula by Bram Stroker
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Persuasion by Jane Austen (O)
Emma by Jane Austen (O)
Romeo and Juliet by Willian Shakespeare
Anansi boys by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, and Gyurme Dorje
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book 2 by Lian Hearn
Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori, Book 3 by Lian Hearn
The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori by Lian Hearn
Heaven's Net is Wide (The Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
PSIence by Marie D. Jones
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by The Dalai Lama
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Dorothy and the Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1776 by David McCullough
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (O)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That May Just Not by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert (O)
Alex and Me by Irene M. Pepperberg
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian
The Hour I first believed by Wally Lamb
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Pygmalion by Georga Benard Shaw
The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
Watership Down by by Richard Adams
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
The last twenty are up in the air. I keep getting the nagging feeling I'm leaving out some really great things. Books that just aren't coming to mind! Granted, there is a lot of classics and really great books I have already read. But still!
Suggest suggest suggest, darlings!
Edit: Finished! Thank you lovelies! <3 I can finally get started now!
Oh, and randomly its getting to be summer and its so LOVELY out and it smells nice because there are flowers and greenery and I love it. I plan to buy a hammock at some point and just take afternoon naps in the yard. How can I not!? Plus I need a little sun anyways, god knows I'm insanely pale. Not that I mind - I actually think pale is pretty. UM. I can't think of anything else important. Had a slight spiritual breakthrough a few days ago that was really weird idk.
and there are bugs everywhere I hate them. Off to be lazy and useless now! ♥
omg and i swear ill get to replying to comments at some point guys. :( I seriously just have a one track mind.
(ALSO I HAVE WIZARD OF OZ ICONS why didn't this happen 424234234234 years ago. My delight knows no bounds)