Book meme

[owlmoose]

Home sick + not sick enough to be laid up in bed - focused enough to write = spamming LJ

Ganked from madlori

Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Leave the rest.

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - T has been after me to read this one forever
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
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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
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
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
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 - I keep hearing really good things about this one.
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
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
46. Dune - Frank Herbert


What do all these books have in common? Besides having been popular, at one point or another? Odd selection.

Comments

[rustehroll.livejournal.com]

O.O I've only read six on that list, including the Harry Potter books.

HMM! I think I need to go to the library...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Have you read "His Dark Materials"? If not, start with those. They are *wonderful*. Oh, and "Good Omens". I bet you would like "Good Omens".

[rustehroll.livejournal.com]

Hrrrm. I'm really sure my roommate has both of these so I am totally going to sneak into her room and stealzors them from her.... and then mock her with pictures of her books in front of different world icons, like the eiffel tower. (But of course these will only be taken in front of postcards. Hah.)

Good Omens??? I shall look. *snugs* Yey. I don't normally read... well, the stuff on there I had read was like To Kill a Mockingbird and what not... XD asides from Harry Potter.

I figured you'd know: do they still publish a book called I Am The Cheese?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I Am The Cheese

Robert Cormier, right? I think that is still in print. If not, any half-decent public library certainly ought to have it.

Roommates with books worth stealing are an excellent thing to have. :)

[waterowl.livejournal.com]

I recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon which I felt was interesting and gave me some insight into autism.a

I also recommend The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. It's a very moving book, somewhat uneven, because at times the plot drives the book but with compelling characters.

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Very well written. The girl seemed so real that I had to stop reading it, because it was too chilling for me.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs!

I do intend to read "Curious Incident" at some point, although sometimes books about autism hit a little too close to home for me.

[giandujabird.livejournal.com]

I've read about half of the items on that list. Memoirs of a Geisha is quite good. smfr has recommended Cloud Atlas, but I haven't gotten to reading it yet. I haven't read Slaughterhouse 5, but Cat's Cradle is hilarious, sad, enjoyable.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I thought Cat's Cradle was by far the best Vonnegut. FWIW.