My Short List of Books
After reading Lissa's rant about the book list, I thought I'd take a moment, list the books of the thousand-and-one i've actually read myself, a few I'd like to, and make some suggestions on books I'd prefer to have seen therein. Interestingly enough, I've only read two more books from said list than Lissa in the extra two years I've had to read them. Not such good odds, considering both of us are avid readers.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -This has been bothering me, I'm bloody-well positive I read this before... now I have to go to the library and make sure!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Shining - Stephen King
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde ~honestly, I've still got to finish it, I misplaced my copy :(
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ~Again, unfinshed, Lissa was reading this to me.
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
I'd Like to Read;
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood -interestingly there is a book I have read by her I would have liked to see on the list.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote (Can I admit this is on the list because I love Audrey Hepburn???)
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
So those are the ones I'd read, that were on the list, but what about;
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Good 0mens - Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Roald Dahl
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Schindler's List -Thomas Keneally
???
I'm not putting any effort into that list, because it could be argued forever, but once you get started...
On a side note, here is a link to a list of books that have been banned at one point or another in america... I found it while researching books, authors & titles, because I have a bad memory. Personally, I think if you're ever in need of an interesting book to read, you never have to go any further than a list of banned books to find something.
http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -This has been bothering me, I'm bloody-well positive I read this before... now I have to go to the library and make sure!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Shining - Stephen King
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde ~honestly, I've still got to finish it, I misplaced my copy :(
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ~Again, unfinshed, Lissa was reading this to me.
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
I'd Like to Read;
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood -interestingly there is a book I have read by her I would have liked to see on the list.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote (Can I admit this is on the list because I love Audrey Hepburn???)
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
So those are the ones I'd read, that were on the list, but what about;
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Good 0mens - Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Roald Dahl
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Schindler's List -Thomas Keneally
???
I'm not putting any effort into that list, because it could be argued forever, but once you get started...
On a side note, here is a link to a list of books that have been banned at one point or another in america... I found it while researching books, authors & titles, because I have a bad memory. Personally, I think if you're ever in need of an interesting book to read, you never have to go any further than a list of banned books to find something.
http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html