booooooks

Apr 08, 2006 18:06

Because it's rainy and gross and I feel like doing a non-horsey post. *gasp* it's hard to believe there is ANY part of my life left that does not revolve around them :P

Here are the current top 50 books from http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com.
Bold the books you have read.
Italicize the books you plan to read.
Leave the rest.

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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (never got into the whole Harry Potter thing-shoot me.)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (it's on the to-read-shelf at home)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (holy cow-LOVED this book, have read it several times-have yet to see the movie though, want to.)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (Finally saw Narnia and it was rather enjoyable)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (again, never had any interest in the LotR things-shoot me.)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Life of Pi - Yann Martel

I never have time to read anymore...*sigh*.  Hopefully this summer when C is working more I will take refuge and hide out in the house with a good book and air conditioning.  We'll see...
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