Books I have read, might read, and will not ever.
Fri, 27 January 2006, 12:16 pm by jadeiteHere are the current top 50 books from What I Should 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 (I don’t like Philip Pullman.)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Oh, delicious.)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
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 (I haven’t actually gotten down to this one yet)
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 (tscd is right, sounds pretty)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (Ick much?)
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 (I can deal without the Bronte sisters, thankyouverymuch)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (Started it, couldn’t finish it.)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender’s Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card (Don’t like him)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (Not really into him either)
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 (No.)
Phew.
from tscd
I think ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ is worth consideration - I read it 5 times over, I liked it so much. It gave me a warm feeling.
I don’t like Phillip Pullman either. The ‘Dark Materials’ trilogy is one that I feel ashamed to have on my shelf even though I haven’t been able to bring myself to throw the books out yet.
What did you think of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?
Read it long ago and I don’t think I understood it as well as I could have :/ It was quite horrifying though, the alternate reality of the handmaidens and the Unwomen and all that. Shudder.
I prefer Atwood’s short stories actually. Good Bones? Read that one? Lovely.
Yeah, I had to read it a few times to really understand what was going on. I haven’t read any of her short stories…why are they better?
I enjoy short stories because I think it’s much more of a challenge to deliver a story in only so many words, and wow, Atwood delivers. She’s very clever and twisty. I loved the one she wrote about the wicked witch in fairy tales, and the one about Hamlet.
Go get a copy :P
Good Bones.
I read Middlesex and liked it. Did the subject matter put you off? The author handled it quite delicately.
No, the title just didn’t sound interesting enough :D
heh ok I thought you were just squeamish about hermaphrodites. yes the title is literal, not a place middle of essex and wessex, or sussex and, uh…