Book meme
I'm doing this mostly just to see how many on the list I've read and if there are any that my friends would recommend...
from
seumas_13
1 - Read through this list of fiction books.
2 - If there is a book that I haven't read, but you think I should, comment and tell me so.
3 - Copy this list to your journal.
4 - Bold the ones you have read.
5 - Italicize the ones you have read more than once.
6 - If your Favorite book is on here, add a "*" next to it.
7 - If your Childhood Favorite is listed, put a "#" next to it.
8 - If your favorite book(s) is/are NOT on here, add it/them to the end of the list.
9 - If you can't stand the book and think it should never have been written, much less required reading, underline it.
Now, the List . . .
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix, JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
1984, George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm, George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Max Eirlich
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
The Stand, Stephen King (read the original and the unabridged, both twice)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough (and the sequel)
Mort, Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
The Magus, John Fowles
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Illiad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Holes, Louis Sachar
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Magician, Raymond E Feist
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The Beach, Alex Garland
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (in french and in english)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Shogun, James Clavell
The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
It, Stephen King
James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl The Green Mile, Stephen King
Papillon, Henri Charriere
Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz (I have it but I haven't read it yet.)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The World According To Garp, John Irving
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
The Once And Future King, T. H. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Flowers In The Attic, VC Andrews
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
Anthem, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Summerland, Michael Chabon
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Candide, Voltaire
Ringworld, Larry Niven
The King Must Die, Mary Renault
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
Wicked, Gregory Maguire (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Singularity, William Sleator
The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
Illusions, Richard Bach
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern
Beowulf, Anonymous
Otherland, Tad Williams
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (in french and in english)
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
The Genesis Code, John Case
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Inferno, Dante
The Apology, Plato
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Our Town, Thorton Wilder
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Neuromancer, William Gibson
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Misery, Stephen King
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Island in the Sea of Time, by S.M. Stirling
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller (read it in a bookstore - complete waste of time)
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (and most of the sequels too)
Moonheart, Charles DeLint
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Robert Asprin
The Wind in the Door, by Madeleine L'Engle
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Game Of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory (I have it, but I haven't read it yet.)
Through a Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke (reading it right now)
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Ireland: A Novel, Frank Delaney
1776, David McCullough
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
American Sideshow - Marc Hartzman
Pet Semetary - Stephen King
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
VURT, Jeff Noon
The Amber Chronicles, Roger Zelazny
from
seumas_13
1 - Read through this list of fiction books.
2 - If there is a book that I haven't read, but you think I should, comment and tell me so.
3 - Copy this list to your journal.
4 - Bold the ones you have read.
5 - Italicize the ones you have read more than once.
6 - If your Favorite book is on here, add a "*" next to it.
7 - If your Childhood Favorite is listed, put a "#" next to it.
8 - If your favorite book(s) is/are NOT on here, add it/them to the end of the list.
9 - If you can't stand the book and think it should never have been written, much less required reading, underline it.
Now, the List . . .
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix, JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
1984, George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm, George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Max Eirlich
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
The Stand, Stephen King (read the original and the unabridged, both twice)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough (and the sequel)
Mort, Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
The Magus, John Fowles
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Illiad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Holes, Louis Sachar
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Magician, Raymond E Feist
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The Beach, Alex Garland
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (in french and in english)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Shogun, James Clavell
The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
It, Stephen King
James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl The Green Mile, Stephen King
Papillon, Henri Charriere
Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz (I have it but I haven't read it yet.)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The World According To Garp, John Irving
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
The Once And Future King, T. H. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Flowers In The Attic, VC Andrews
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
Anthem, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Summerland, Michael Chabon
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Candide, Voltaire
Ringworld, Larry Niven
The King Must Die, Mary Renault
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
Wicked, Gregory Maguire (I have it, but haven't read it yet.)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Singularity, William Sleator
The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
Illusions, Richard Bach
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern
Beowulf, Anonymous
Otherland, Tad Williams
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (in french and in english)
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
The Genesis Code, John Case
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Inferno, Dante
The Apology, Plato
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Our Town, Thorton Wilder
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Neuromancer, William Gibson
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Misery, Stephen King
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Island in the Sea of Time, by S.M. Stirling
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller (read it in a bookstore - complete waste of time)
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (and most of the sequels too)
Moonheart, Charles DeLint
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Robert Asprin
The Wind in the Door, by Madeleine L'Engle
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Game Of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory (I have it, but I haven't read it yet.)
Through a Glass Darkly, Karleen Koen
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke (reading it right now)
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Ireland: A Novel, Frank Delaney
1776, David McCullough
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
American Sideshow - Marc Hartzman
Pet Semetary - Stephen King
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
VURT, Jeff Noon
The Amber Chronicles, Roger Zelazny