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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Readings To Catch Up On ....

Sonic gave me the list of the current top 50 books from What To Read Next. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won’t read. Pass it on:

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 (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (it is actually together with the entire LOTR trilogy, so in a way, it should be considered I have read it.)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

1984 - George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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 (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Dune - Frank Herbert

Gosh, there are still so many books I have not read?! I better do some real catching up, on top of the readings I need to do for my own studies! Back to work, back to work again!

3 comments:

Goy said...

Hey. I finally bought the copy of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon! Haha, it is quite interesting. The main character suffers from Asperger's Syndrome as he is quite anti social and spends more time on maths and logic. He founds a dead dog with a pitchfork sticking out of it and thus decided to investigate it.

shakespeareheroine said...

I suppose you like it? I also finally finished reading the book after so many false starts. Kept reading halfway or three-quarters of the way than stopped. :-p

Goy said...

I thought it was rather interesting becaues the author was able to place himself in the main character's eccentric personality.

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