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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Book List

Came across this book list courtesy of Kitty_Dollies

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Here are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. 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 ( Didn't understand half of it. Borrowed Amazing Bean's copy, so I've a really brainy sister here! )
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( Standard lit text for Sec 4. Loved it very much! )
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( Gave up half way )
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien ( Oh no, I seem to have a habit of giving up on books half way ... )
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( All time favourite from 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
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 ( Dark n depressing I thot )
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 ( Too ... many ... words ... )
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( Read this to pieces too )
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 ( Totally confused at the end of it )
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ( I could have been too young when I read this. Felt helplessly angry )
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
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I've to confess: There're so many books I dun even know existed. Ah such a woefully lacking education I've had in E Lit.


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