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Sunday, July 05, 2009
Stole this from qian. I need a list to keep track of my readings.
Instructions: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicise those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. (eh, I cant underline so I shall make them red.)
Them Silly List of Books
- Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I probably wouldnt ever get started..)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (DUH)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Just finished it yesterday! Way surpass my expectations.)
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (a big maybe)
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (He's an anti-christ author I think, can tell from reading this trilogy, but I still like it luh.)
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare (Siao..)
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I cant see whats so nice about this one..)
- The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (MY FAVOURITE!)
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (gonna borrow from asshole)
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I dont really like it much.)
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell (lit text!)
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Angels & Demons is wayyyy better I think.)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding (I kept seeing this in the Top Lists, is it really that good?!?)
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Another bestsellers book which doesnt appeal to me..)
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- 55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (bestfriend says theres INCEST! D:)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Sounds like a good one too.)
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (ANOTHER FAVOURITE. I cried like a baby reading this.)
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (Im quite sure I read it long long ago..)
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Ooooo this is the one Mr Shankar talked about! Something about teaching you to be happy.)
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdied
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker (AM READING NOW. INTERESTING.)
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce (Crazy book.)
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dr Watson is always so funny..)
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton (I LOVED IT WHEN I WAS YOUNG. Moonface!)
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (For some reason, I never read this.)
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (read a chapter, not very interesting. I prefer the musical.)
I've read 20 books in the list, loved 7 and intend to read 13.
Other books that are not mentioned but I find them interesting:
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (It's a touching book, but her words dont pull me in as much as authors like Alice Sebold & Audrey Niffenegger did.)
- Diary - Chuck Palahniuk (His writing style is not like the norm I think, he likes to "talk" to the reader.)
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (Bestfriend says its really good, I just bought it.)
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (Not sure how to describe this.. )
- The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult (Just bought this, people kept saying her books are good, idk)
- There's No Place Like Here - Cecelia Ahern (Quite okay, about being lost and being found.)
Thats all. Labels: books, lists
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