book meme

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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:


1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown I don't have time for that crap

2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams 4 or 5 times

4. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee I've started it, but haven't got the time to finish yet.

6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling

9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel I keep hearing good stuff about this

10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell Someday maybe.

11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I definitly want to read this one.

16. 1984 - George Orwell Once when I was 14 and it's marked me for life.

17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling

18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez--I last read this at age 18. My 20 year old niece wants me to reread it. I wonder if I will still think it's brilliant?

19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Looks interesting.

20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

25. Neuromancer - William Gibson I don't like Gibson.

26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman

32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card Another of those books that have really marked me.

33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Summerian mythology meets the computer age, oh yeah !

34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides--so brilliant!

37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

41. Atonement - Ian McEwan

42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood It is sci-fi, hon :p

45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

46. Dune - Frank Herbert - and I didn't like it.

I've read more books there I thought I had... and there's more Science Fiction books there than I thought there would be (this is correlated ^^)

Comments

[dizilla.livejournal.com]

Ah Ender's Game. That was a fantasmic book.

Will definitely do this meme this weekend when everything's sorted out.... =)