50 Book Challenge 2013 Book List
So this challenge is something I'd been seeing a lot Tumblr, and since it looked fun, and I've never attempted to record my reading habits in any way, I thought I'd give it a shot myself. I've made up a list of some things I'm hoping to get read at some point this year, while crossing off what I've already finished. Some of these I've already read in the past, some I own but have yet to read, and some I don’t own but would like to. There's probably a few others I may end up re-reading as well.
Part of why I'm posting it here is because I'm drawing a complete blank on what else I might be interested in, and am hoping some of my LJ friends may be able to give me recommendations. I don't have any genre preferences (though sci-fi and horror are a plus), but I'll say right off the bat that I'm not interested in the Tumblr staples of Perks of Being a Wallflower, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (which I already have read and disliked), or any of John Green's books. That man is hot as hell, but damn if his writing just doesn't look like anything I'd enjoy.
But, yes, thanks in advance for anything you might suggest. :)
- Aleister Crowley - Moonchild
- Arthur Machen - The White People and Other Weird Tales
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind
- Comte de Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror
- Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
- Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
- Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
- H.P. Lovecraft - Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Tree of Codes
- Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
- Michael Moorcock - The Black Corridor
- Miyuki Miyabe - Ico: Castle in the Mist
- Nick Blinko - The Primal Screamer
- Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Philip K. Dick - VALIS
- Roland Topor - The Tenant
- Stanisław Lem - Solaris
- The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud - The Book of Lyrics
- Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer
- Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco
- Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- William Gibson - Neuromancer
- William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive
- William Gibson - Virtual Light
- William Gibson - Idoru
- William Gibson - All Tomorrow’s Parties
- William Gibson - Zero History
- William Gibson - Spook Country
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- William Sleator - House of Stairs
- William Sleator - Into the Dream
- Yevgeny Zamyatin - We