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I haven't been here in months. I still read everyone else's entries but find myself with nothing to say. I will do an update at some point I suppose.
But for now I am just here to write a list that's more for my benefit than yours. Sorry if you're reading this expecting breaking news or exciting tales of intrigue and whooping.
I have decided that there are an enormous amount of books that I have not read that I really should. There are also some that I read a long time ago and want to reread in order to appreciate them fully. So I've made a list that I am going to work through until they are all done. I still have loads of books left unread from Christmas presents so I'm not sure when I will even start this list, but I wanted to have it written down somewhere before it's lost.
1. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
4. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
4. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
5. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jnr
9. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
11. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
12. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
13. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
14. The Beautiful and the Damned - F Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Outsider - Albert Camus
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
17. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
18. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
19. Middlemarch - George Eliot
20. Incest/ Henry and June - Anais Nin
21. Howards End - E.M Forster
22. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
23. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
24. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
25. Highland Fling - Nancy Mitford
A very cliched list, but as I said they are books that I feel I really should've read/ should read again at some point in my (nearly) 25 years on this planet. There are also a lot of 1910-20s authors...I have just finished reading a book about 'the Bright Young People' (e.g the Mitfords, Waugh, Guiness, Tennant etc.) and it has really pricked my interest. I am currently reading the 'Letters between six sisters' book about the Mitfords and have been going to bed early to read it every night.
If there are any books you think should be on here that are in the same vein please let me know. I may have read them but then we can be book geeks and chat about them!