Interesting random stuff...
Stolen from shadorunr very cool story from NPR, has an interview with Jack Wall, one of my favorite video game composers:
NPR.org, All Things Considered, April 12th 2008
Stolen from erin_ruston
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Add * beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend, even if you read them for school in the first place.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Angels & Demons*
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote (read fully in English, started to read in Spanish)
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves* (one of my favorite books)
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein*
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations (started to read for school, couldn't stand it, passed the test, but very low grade)
Gulliver’s Travels*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (currently sitting in my house, hubby is reading it)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian: a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (might read again, depends on how depressed I want to be)
The Iliad*
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi: a novel
Lolita (way too depressing)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon*
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose (on the shelf, from Eddy's collection)
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey*
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (passed that test, barely)
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion* (liked as much as I read [the creation of the world and early history], but haven't had time to finish it)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island*
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down*
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights (got it as a gift, got about 2 chapters in and was bored to tears)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (on my husband's shelf, but never read it)
NPR.org, All Things Considered, April 12th 2008
Stolen from erin_ruston
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Add * beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend, even if you read them for school in the first place.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Angels & Demons*
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote (read fully in English, started to read in Spanish)
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves* (one of my favorite books)
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein*
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations (started to read for school, couldn't stand it, passed the test, but very low grade)
Gulliver’s Travels*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (currently sitting in my house, hubby is reading it)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian: a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (might read again, depends on how depressed I want to be)
The Iliad*
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi: a novel
Lolita (way too depressing)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon*
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose (on the shelf, from Eddy's collection)
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey*
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (passed that test, barely)
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion* (liked as much as I read [the creation of the world and early history], but haven't had time to finish it)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island*
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down*
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights (got it as a gift, got about 2 chapters in and was bored to tears)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (on my husband's shelf, but never read it)