Meme thing.
These are the ones I haven't read.........
Some of them I can't bear the sight of : Nos. 5, 28, 76 and 61 spring to mind. Requests for them are usualy from desperate college students who've left it far too late to get a copy, and who are almost always always rude and baffled at the prospect of having to provide their own copy having missed the 15 or 16 copies that the library service can provide.
Some I can't bring myself to read as they seem to have the awful taint of "book club" all over them, you just know that these books are being "read" by people who wouldn't normally read this type of book, who don't understand what they've just "read" and who, once again, are surprised when they can't instantaneously get hold of a copy of a book for their special snowflake selves that has an endless reserve list (because 6 bandwaggon bookclubs are reading it at once) : Nos 37, 38, 17, 50, 51, 69, 88 and 64 spring to mind here; 64 in particular seemed almost unreadable.
A couple I'm pretty certain I have read, I just can't remember a single thing about them so I can't justify my suspicion and therefore they stay on the list.
Obviously I have read most of the Bible, I skipped all the dull "begats" though, therefore I can't claim to have read the whole thing. And I can't say I've read everything Shakespeare ever wrote either, but given my obsession with that bit of history I'd say I've ploughed through most of it, some with delight and some with a feeling of duty.
So great Hive mind, of those books left on this list which do you suggest I read, and why?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - God :>
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Some of them I can't bear the sight of : Nos. 5, 28, 76 and 61 spring to mind. Requests for them are usualy from desperate college students who've left it far too late to get a copy, and who are almost always always rude and baffled at the prospect of having to provide their own copy having missed the 15 or 16 copies that the library service can provide.
Some I can't bring myself to read as they seem to have the awful taint of "book club" all over them, you just know that these books are being "read" by people who wouldn't normally read this type of book, who don't understand what they've just "read" and who, once again, are surprised when they can't instantaneously get hold of a copy of a book for their special snowflake selves that has an endless reserve list (because 6 bandwaggon bookclubs are reading it at once) : Nos 37, 38, 17, 50, 51, 69, 88 and 64 spring to mind here; 64 in particular seemed almost unreadable.
A couple I'm pretty certain I have read, I just can't remember a single thing about them so I can't justify my suspicion and therefore they stay on the list.
Obviously I have read most of the Bible, I skipped all the dull "begats" though, therefore I can't claim to have read the whole thing. And I can't say I've read everything Shakespeare ever wrote either, but given my obsession with that bit of history I'd say I've ploughed through most of it, some with delight and some with a feeling of duty.
So great Hive mind, of those books left on this list which do you suggest I read, and why?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - God :>
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute