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Dec 03, 2005 11:08

A list of books. Bold the ones you've read, and once you're done, add 3 to the end of the list that you've read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling ( Read more... )

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wob_hates_lj December 4 2005, 13:20:16 UTC
Oh, I got this:

...fuck, you can't embolden things in replies. Motherfucker. I'll list the one's I've read, then:

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
15. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott(that's right, I'm a big girl)
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy(longest book EVER; seriously, go look at it in a bookstore, you'll start crying)
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
25. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Ronald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell(pnce again, I'm a big girl)
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky(also read The Trial by Kafka, if you enjoyed this)
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
144. It, Stephen King
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
170. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov(don't ask)
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
188. Goosebumps, R.L. Stine(gag)
194. The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
198. The Once And Future King, T.H. White
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka(that comment above about this? nevermind)
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
245. Candide, Voltaire
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan(girl-books and me)
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (I thought William Goldman wrote this? maybe different book?)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (this book is hilarious; must-read)
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton(<33333)
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
355. The Inferno, Dante
363. Our Town, Thornton Wilder
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
388. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
409. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
410. The Shining, Stephen King
414. The Iliad, Homer
416. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
417. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
418. The Odyssey, Homer
437. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

Damn, I thought I'd have more than that. I'll ad my three, then:

438. The Satanic Verses by Salaman Rushdie
439. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
440. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (if you liked 1984, Anthem, Brave New World, you must read this; the beginning of the genre)

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