Book meme
I love doing quizzes, memes, etc. that I find in people's journals. Usually I save the results in a file and then later go through it and decide which ones I want to inflict upon you people. I saw this one about 5 minutes ago and couldn't resist. Despite the fact it's long.
Bold those you've read. Italicize those you haven't finished. Underline those you own.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Although I have to say, I think the movie is 20x better!
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman The first book of the series was the best, but all good.
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams I really should finish it. Especially as I heard the man talk and loved him.
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling No surprise...
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Had to read it for school in 7th grade, but loved it!
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne And I own other Winnie the Pooh books too. I love Eeyore.
8. 1984, George Orwell I didn't get the whole impact of the book when I first read it at 11 or 12, but I've always liked it.
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis I've read the whole series multiple times. Again, I don't think I got the whole impact the first time I read it. (I think I was 7 or so at the time?)
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Not a fan of the Brontes, but I did read this one.
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier My mom got it for me for my 12th(?) birthday, but I couldn't finish it.
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger But I freaking hated it. Both times that I read it for class. I actually started quite the argument about it in my Young Adult literature class. Ugh.
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Does it count if it was read to me back when I was a little kid? As it was many, many years ago, I don't remember the actual book, but I do remember the experience of my father reading it to me.
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens I tried. I think the only Dickens book I made it through was "Oliver Twist"
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Read in my "I won't read any book that doesn't have a female protagonist" phase. This obviously fit in well. *grin*
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell And actually wrote a book report on it when I was 11 or 12. Not exactly a typical choice for a preteen, I wouldn't think.
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling I actually refused to read these books for the longest time because I thought they were over-hyped. I succumbed. *grin*
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien I liked this one much better than the trilogy. Although I haven't read it as a grown-up, so maybe it isn't as good as I remember it being?
26. Tess Of The DUrbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck I know, I know, classic and all.
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll And the sequel.
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery And all 7 others in the series. I haven't read the series in awhile, though.
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams So much love for this book! Again it is one that I first read as a kid so didn't catch all of the references to the state of society. If you haven't read it and you like "Lost", I highly recommend it. Heck, I highly recommend it even if you don't watch "Lost". Don't be put off by the fact it's "about bunnies" because it is so much more.
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Read it for school. Hated it.
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas I really want to read this book as I quite enjoyed the recent movie. I haven't gotten around to it, though.
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell Yet another book that I understood/appreciated so much more when I reread it when I was older. That's the problem with reading well above your age level, you can understand the words and the basic plot, but the nuances whoosh right over your head.
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens I can't believe I haven't read this one. Does it count if I've seen the play numerous times? I didn't think so.
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Another one from my "girl" phase. I didn't love it all that much, though. Mary irritated me a bit, and the sick boy (so forget his name) irritated me a lot. I thought the spiritual thing was a bit hokey too. Of course I was a kid, so... Maybe I should try reading it again.
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King I got it as a birthday gift and started reading it on a camping trip. (Seriously wasn't the best idea. Who the heck brings Stephen King to read when they're going to be out in the woods in a tent?) One day we were out and about when there was a rainstorm. The tent flooded, wrecking the book, and I've never tried to read it again. Horror isn't particularly my thing.
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy This one sort of interests me as well from what I know about it. I doubt I'll ever get to reading it, though.
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl I have read most of his works. They're just so twisted!
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell I started it as a kid, but don't remember finishing it. I might have.
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer I've read (and own) the whole series so far, but the original is my favorite. I like the way fairy tale things are twisted. Not a deep thinking book, but a fun read.
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens I read this for school and really liked it. Okay, so I guess I was mistaken when I said that I'd only finished "Oliver Twist". I had forgotten about this one,
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough Nothing like reading about a priest having sex with someone as an 11 year old. Of course, considering what else I was reading at the time, this was pretty tame. Have I mentioned the problems of having an adult reading level before being old enough to read "adult" books?
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding My father recommended this to me a long, long, long time ago and I just couldn't finish it. Maybe I should try it again now that I'm a grown up.
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl Again, so much love for him!
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding I did see (and didn't particularly care for) the movie, but that, of course, doesn't count.
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl Obviously whoever started this list is a Dahl fan too!
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley One of a myriad of books I own and haven't read yet.
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel This is another book that an impressionable 11 year old shouldn't read.
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer I like a lot of his books, but some of them are a bit repetitive. This was the first one I read, though, so I really liked it.
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth I think this was the first book I had read in which I was rooting for the "villain". I think it started my twisted nature in which I prefer complex, dark characters to cookie-cutter heroes.
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend It sounds interesting. Maybe I should check it out.
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde My sister and I were just talking about this book the other day! So freaky.
119. Shogun, James Clavell Another one that I can't remember if I finished. I know I got through a good portion of it, but I don't think I finished it.
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle I own (and have read more than once) "The Complete Sherlock Holmes". I like it. Maybe that was an indication that many years later I'd watch a ton of crime shows?
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood Again, understood it a lot better upon rereading. I didn't even catch the significance of the "Offred" name at first! *facepalm*
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Damn, a Roald Dahl book I haven't read. How did that happen?
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan I don't remember anything about it, including why I didn't finish it.
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King I was freaked to no end at the scary clown in the movie. (The spider? Not so much.) I tried to read it, but couldn't get myself to finish it.
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King Wait! A Stephen King book I finished! (There are a couple of others as well.)
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad God, no. I didn't even make it through "Lord Jim", and I was supposed to read that one for AP English.
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon No. I have read four others by her, though. Maybe I should check this one out.
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville I tried.
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson I swear, how many books by this author are there on this list?
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye So good.
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl I think this is the book of his that freaked me out the most. I still sometimes catch myself smashing eggshells so witches cannot ride in them.
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White One of my earliest memories is my mother crying as she finished reading this to me before naptime. I still cry at the end. *sniffle*
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco Eventually...
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl Another one I haven't read? Hmm... (And, also, I love him, but what the heck is up with all of these Roald Dahl books on the list?)
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach I didn't even realize I owned this until I cleaned out my book collection from my mom's house when she moved. I have no idea where it is right now. Probably in a box in my mom's basement.
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery In French! Go me!
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine Which one? That's the series title. I've read two of the series.
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri As a kid. I wonder if it would hold up to an adult reading?
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence I tried "Lady Chatterly's Lover", but it bored me, so I've never read others by D.H. Lawrence.
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White As part of my King Arthur class in college.
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle So many times! I love it, the kids always love it, the whole world should love it! I've even based lessons around this book.
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews A book I don't want to admit I've read. I read the whole series at age 12 or 13 or so, and even then I recognized it as trash, but what twisted trash it was! (And isn't it V.C. Andrews? Since when is it Virginia Andrews?)
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan I think the first in this series will always be my favorite, despite the fact I have read each subsequent one.
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan Was there really a need to list a bunch of the subsequent ones? People who like the series probably have read all of them, and others have probably have read none of them.
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson Another must read for everyone, even if it is a kids' book. I've read it on my own multiple times and was told to read it for both of my children's literature classes. (Just make sure you have a supply of tissues handy if you tend to get at all emotional about books.)
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka I was given an excerpt from it to read for part of a quiz team I was on in high school. It didn't intrigue me enough to want to read the whole thing.
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles For my drama class in high school. It was good, so I don't know why I didn't read the others.
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen For my drama class in college. This one I didn't like that much.
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton Another required reading book.
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read And it freaked me out. I don't think I could ever eat human flesh to survive. Of course, I've never been put in that position, but still... *shudder*
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley So awesome! I read it for my King Arthur class, but I've reread it since. It's such an interesting (female) twist to the classic legend/story.
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson I did not really care for it, though. The main character irritated me to no end. I wanted to go into the book and slap him on more than one occasion.
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl Again with the Dahl?!
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle I even wrote a paper on the analysis of the growth of Meg from a psychological (I can't remember which one, now, maybe Erik Erikson's psychosocial?) perspective. I found a way to make my psychology classes pay off in my library studies, yay!
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum I read them all, but the original is still the best, in my opinion.
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris I was supposed to read this for my YA class. I can't remember why I didn't. I'm usually so good about reading books for school.
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder The whole series again... *grin*
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Another one I read for school. Unfortunately I read the end in school and started bawling right there in class. I warned my sister about my experience and told her not to read it in school, but she ignored me and she ended up crying in her class. My warning to y'all: Don't read it in a public place, and make sure to have lots of tissues on hand. *sniffle*
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt I saw the movie because it had "Rory" in it, but never read the book.
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg Not only did I read it, it was the inspiration (such as it was) for the title of my journal. Great book.
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster Awesome. I loved the land of math, land of words thing when I was a kid.
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin I've tried. Twice. I just can't get into it.
276. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator I read a different book by him for my Young Adult Literature class, and I would really rather not read another by him, thankyouverymuch.
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King Another King book that I've finished.
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby I loved the movie, so maybe I should try the book.
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice I saw the movie, so picked up the book. I never got that into the series, though. I think I only read 3 or 4 of them.
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Such an awesome book! I read it for my Children's Literature class and loved it. Of course, not everyone did, but the ones who didn't have no taste... :P
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry Another book I read for my Children's Literature class and loved.
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman) No, and I keep thinking I should, as I adore the movie so.
322. Beowulf, Anonymous For class, of course.
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley No. If "The Hero and the Dragon" and "The Blue Sword" aren't mentioned, though, I would highly recommend those, though.
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey I've read one Anne McCaffrey book, and I think it was this one. I wasn't highly impressed by it and did not read more.
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry Another really good kids' book. This one deals with the Holocaust.
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin I read it as a kid and seem to recall that I didn't like it that much.
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare I've taken a Shakespeare class and two drama classes. It's safe to say, I've read a lot of Shakespeare. *grin*
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown I was doing really well with this list. Now, not so much. I loved this book more than "The DaVinci Code", which is, of course, the one that got all of the press.
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley I so don't remember the title, but I looked it up and it is part of the "Darkover" series. As I read that entire series, I'm sure I've read this one.
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje I hated that movie so much that I don't think anything could get me to read the book.
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman I swear I've read some books by Neil Gaiman; they're just not being listed!
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss I really should read this. It's right up my alley and sounds really amusing. And, I mean, it's sitting right on my bookshelf, so it's not like I have to go out and find it or anything.
385. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine L'Engle Huh. I thought I'd read pretty much all of her books, but that one doesn't sound familiar at all.
386. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman I know she took liberties with her history, but I like her books well enough. I really like "A Sunne in Splendor".
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest I'm pretty sure I've read some of the tales in my history classes, but I wouldn't swear by it.
388. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card "Ender's Game" is better, though.
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini Haven't read the sequel yet, though. I heard it wasn't so good.
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket I've made it through number 8 or 9, I think. I liked the first couple a lot, but my love for the series has waned.
408. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
409. Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins Nice children's fantasy book.
410. The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley Again, a children's fantasy book, but it has a woman as the main protagonist, which is difficult to find in fantasy.
411. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier A story of high school, but so much more.
The King of the Mild Frontier, Chris Crutcher Chris Crutcher is a fairly well known writer for Young Adults, but this is actually his autobiography. It's absolutely hysterical, and if you have any siblings, you're sure to really appreciate some of what he went through as a kid.
This list was a lot of fun to go through. I have so many memories associated with books. I don't know if I was supposed to add any, but I did anyway. The last four are my additions. (I couldn't resist!) I can't decide how pathetic it is how many of these I haven't read considering I'm, you know, a librarian and all. I have read the majority of the kids' ones on the list, so I guess it's not so bad, as I'm a children's librarian. I really need to reread some of these books, and I highly recommend a bunch of them. Don't be turned off by the kids' books just because they're kids' books; most of them are well worth reading. (Well, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" isn't all that great a read if you're above the age of 10, but... *grin*)
Okay, that's enough geekiness for today. Sorry to subject you to that. *grin*
Oh, and if you want to do this yourself, I stole cut-and-pasted the basic list from here; it is easier to work off of that than off of my list full of ramblings. (If you want to add my additions to the list, feel free, but you don't have to. I just felt the need to pimp those books.)
Bold those you've read. Italicize those you haven't finished. Underline those you own.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Although I have to say, I think the movie is 20x better!
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman The first book of the series was the best, but all good.
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams I really should finish it. Especially as I heard the man talk and loved him.
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling No surprise...
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Had to read it for school in 7th grade, but loved it!
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne And I own other Winnie the Pooh books too. I love Eeyore.
8. 1984, George Orwell I didn't get the whole impact of the book when I first read it at 11 or 12, but I've always liked it.
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis I've read the whole series multiple times. Again, I don't think I got the whole impact the first time I read it. (I think I was 7 or so at the time?)
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Not a fan of the Brontes, but I did read this one.
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier My mom got it for me for my 12th(?) birthday, but I couldn't finish it.
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger But I freaking hated it. Both times that I read it for class. I actually started quite the argument about it in my Young Adult literature class. Ugh.
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Does it count if it was read to me back when I was a little kid? As it was many, many years ago, I don't remember the actual book, but I do remember the experience of my father reading it to me.
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens I tried. I think the only Dickens book I made it through was "Oliver Twist"
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Read in my "I won't read any book that doesn't have a female protagonist" phase. This obviously fit in well. *grin*
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell And actually wrote a book report on it when I was 11 or 12. Not exactly a typical choice for a preteen, I wouldn't think.
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling I actually refused to read these books for the longest time because I thought they were over-hyped. I succumbed. *grin*
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien I liked this one much better than the trilogy. Although I haven't read it as a grown-up, so maybe it isn't as good as I remember it being?
26. Tess Of The DUrbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck I know, I know, classic and all.
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll And the sequel.
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery And all 7 others in the series. I haven't read the series in awhile, though.
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams So much love for this book! Again it is one that I first read as a kid so didn't catch all of the references to the state of society. If you haven't read it and you like "Lost", I highly recommend it. Heck, I highly recommend it even if you don't watch "Lost". Don't be put off by the fact it's "about bunnies" because it is so much more.
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Read it for school. Hated it.
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas I really want to read this book as I quite enjoyed the recent movie. I haven't gotten around to it, though.
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell Yet another book that I understood/appreciated so much more when I reread it when I was older. That's the problem with reading well above your age level, you can understand the words and the basic plot, but the nuances whoosh right over your head.
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens I can't believe I haven't read this one. Does it count if I've seen the play numerous times? I didn't think so.
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Another one from my "girl" phase. I didn't love it all that much, though. Mary irritated me a bit, and the sick boy (so forget his name) irritated me a lot. I thought the spiritual thing was a bit hokey too. Of course I was a kid, so... Maybe I should try reading it again.
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King I got it as a birthday gift and started reading it on a camping trip. (Seriously wasn't the best idea. Who the heck brings Stephen King to read when they're going to be out in the woods in a tent?) One day we were out and about when there was a rainstorm. The tent flooded, wrecking the book, and I've never tried to read it again. Horror isn't particularly my thing.
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy This one sort of interests me as well from what I know about it. I doubt I'll ever get to reading it, though.
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl I have read most of his works. They're just so twisted!
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell I started it as a kid, but don't remember finishing it. I might have.
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer I've read (and own) the whole series so far, but the original is my favorite. I like the way fairy tale things are twisted. Not a deep thinking book, but a fun read.
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens I read this for school and really liked it. Okay, so I guess I was mistaken when I said that I'd only finished "Oliver Twist". I had forgotten about this one,
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough Nothing like reading about a priest having sex with someone as an 11 year old. Of course, considering what else I was reading at the time, this was pretty tame. Have I mentioned the problems of having an adult reading level before being old enough to read "adult" books?
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding My father recommended this to me a long, long, long time ago and I just couldn't finish it. Maybe I should try it again now that I'm a grown up.
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl Again, so much love for him!
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding I did see (and didn't particularly care for) the movie, but that, of course, doesn't count.
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl Obviously whoever started this list is a Dahl fan too!
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley One of a myriad of books I own and haven't read yet.
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel This is another book that an impressionable 11 year old shouldn't read.
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer I like a lot of his books, but some of them are a bit repetitive. This was the first one I read, though, so I really liked it.
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth I think this was the first book I had read in which I was rooting for the "villain". I think it started my twisted nature in which I prefer complex, dark characters to cookie-cutter heroes.
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend It sounds interesting. Maybe I should check it out.
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde My sister and I were just talking about this book the other day! So freaky.
119. Shogun, James Clavell Another one that I can't remember if I finished. I know I got through a good portion of it, but I don't think I finished it.
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle I own (and have read more than once) "The Complete Sherlock Holmes". I like it. Maybe that was an indication that many years later I'd watch a ton of crime shows?
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood Again, understood it a lot better upon rereading. I didn't even catch the significance of the "Offred" name at first! *facepalm*
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Damn, a Roald Dahl book I haven't read. How did that happen?
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan I don't remember anything about it, including why I didn't finish it.
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King I was freaked to no end at the scary clown in the movie. (The spider? Not so much.) I tried to read it, but couldn't get myself to finish it.
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King Wait! A Stephen King book I finished! (There are a couple of others as well.)
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad God, no. I didn't even make it through "Lord Jim", and I was supposed to read that one for AP English.
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon No. I have read four others by her, though. Maybe I should check this one out.
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville I tried.
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson I swear, how many books by this author are there on this list?
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye So good.
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl I think this is the book of his that freaked me out the most. I still sometimes catch myself smashing eggshells so witches cannot ride in them.
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White One of my earliest memories is my mother crying as she finished reading this to me before naptime. I still cry at the end. *sniffle*
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco Eventually...
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl Another one I haven't read? Hmm... (And, also, I love him, but what the heck is up with all of these Roald Dahl books on the list?)
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach I didn't even realize I owned this until I cleaned out my book collection from my mom's house when she moved. I have no idea where it is right now. Probably in a box in my mom's basement.
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery In French! Go me!
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine Which one? That's the series title. I've read two of the series.
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri As a kid. I wonder if it would hold up to an adult reading?
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence I tried "Lady Chatterly's Lover", but it bored me, so I've never read others by D.H. Lawrence.
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White As part of my King Arthur class in college.
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle So many times! I love it, the kids always love it, the whole world should love it! I've even based lessons around this book.
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews A book I don't want to admit I've read. I read the whole series at age 12 or 13 or so, and even then I recognized it as trash, but what twisted trash it was! (And isn't it V.C. Andrews? Since when is it Virginia Andrews?)
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan I think the first in this series will always be my favorite, despite the fact I have read each subsequent one.
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan Was there really a need to list a bunch of the subsequent ones? People who like the series probably have read all of them, and others have probably have read none of them.
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson Another must read for everyone, even if it is a kids' book. I've read it on my own multiple times and was told to read it for both of my children's literature classes. (Just make sure you have a supply of tissues handy if you tend to get at all emotional about books.)
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka I was given an excerpt from it to read for part of a quiz team I was on in high school. It didn't intrigue me enough to want to read the whole thing.
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles For my drama class in high school. It was good, so I don't know why I didn't read the others.
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen For my drama class in college. This one I didn't like that much.
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton Another required reading book.
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read And it freaked me out. I don't think I could ever eat human flesh to survive. Of course, I've never been put in that position, but still... *shudder*
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley So awesome! I read it for my King Arthur class, but I've reread it since. It's such an interesting (female) twist to the classic legend/story.
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson I did not really care for it, though. The main character irritated me to no end. I wanted to go into the book and slap him on more than one occasion.
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl Again with the Dahl?!
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle I even wrote a paper on the analysis of the growth of Meg from a psychological (I can't remember which one, now, maybe Erik Erikson's psychosocial?) perspective. I found a way to make my psychology classes pay off in my library studies, yay!
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum I read them all, but the original is still the best, in my opinion.
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris I was supposed to read this for my YA class. I can't remember why I didn't. I'm usually so good about reading books for school.
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder The whole series again... *grin*
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Another one I read for school. Unfortunately I read the end in school and started bawling right there in class. I warned my sister about my experience and told her not to read it in school, but she ignored me and she ended up crying in her class. My warning to y'all: Don't read it in a public place, and make sure to have lots of tissues on hand. *sniffle*
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt I saw the movie because it had "Rory" in it, but never read the book.
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg Not only did I read it, it was the inspiration (such as it was) for the title of my journal. Great book.
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster Awesome. I loved the land of math, land of words thing when I was a kid.
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin I've tried. Twice. I just can't get into it.
276. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator I read a different book by him for my Young Adult Literature class, and I would really rather not read another by him, thankyouverymuch.
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King Another King book that I've finished.
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby I loved the movie, so maybe I should try the book.
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice I saw the movie, so picked up the book. I never got that into the series, though. I think I only read 3 or 4 of them.
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Such an awesome book! I read it for my Children's Literature class and loved it. Of course, not everyone did, but the ones who didn't have no taste... :P
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry Another book I read for my Children's Literature class and loved.
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman) No, and I keep thinking I should, as I adore the movie so.
322. Beowulf, Anonymous For class, of course.
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley No. If "The Hero and the Dragon" and "The Blue Sword" aren't mentioned, though, I would highly recommend those, though.
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey I've read one Anne McCaffrey book, and I think it was this one. I wasn't highly impressed by it and did not read more.
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry Another really good kids' book. This one deals with the Holocaust.
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin I read it as a kid and seem to recall that I didn't like it that much.
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare I've taken a Shakespeare class and two drama classes. It's safe to say, I've read a lot of Shakespeare. *grin*
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown I was doing really well with this list. Now, not so much. I loved this book more than "The DaVinci Code", which is, of course, the one that got all of the press.
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley I so don't remember the title, but I looked it up and it is part of the "Darkover" series. As I read that entire series, I'm sure I've read this one.
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje I hated that movie so much that I don't think anything could get me to read the book.
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman I swear I've read some books by Neil Gaiman; they're just not being listed!
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss I really should read this. It's right up my alley and sounds really amusing. And, I mean, it's sitting right on my bookshelf, so it's not like I have to go out and find it or anything.
385. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine L'Engle Huh. I thought I'd read pretty much all of her books, but that one doesn't sound familiar at all.
386. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman I know she took liberties with her history, but I like her books well enough. I really like "A Sunne in Splendor".
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest I'm pretty sure I've read some of the tales in my history classes, but I wouldn't swear by it.
388. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card "Ender's Game" is better, though.
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini Haven't read the sequel yet, though. I heard it wasn't so good.
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket I've made it through number 8 or 9, I think. I liked the first couple a lot, but my love for the series has waned.
408. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
409. Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins Nice children's fantasy book.
410. The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley Again, a children's fantasy book, but it has a woman as the main protagonist, which is difficult to find in fantasy.
411. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier A story of high school, but so much more.
The King of the Mild Frontier, Chris Crutcher Chris Crutcher is a fairly well known writer for Young Adults, but this is actually his autobiography. It's absolutely hysterical, and if you have any siblings, you're sure to really appreciate some of what he went through as a kid.
This list was a lot of fun to go through. I have so many memories associated with books. I don't know if I was supposed to add any, but I did anyway. The last four are my additions. (I couldn't resist!) I can't decide how pathetic it is how many of these I haven't read considering I'm, you know, a librarian and all. I have read the majority of the kids' ones on the list, so I guess it's not so bad, as I'm a children's librarian. I really need to reread some of these books, and I highly recommend a bunch of them. Don't be turned off by the kids' books just because they're kids' books; most of them are well worth reading. (Well, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" isn't all that great a read if you're above the age of 10, but... *grin*)
Okay, that's enough geekiness for today. Sorry to subject you to that. *grin*
Oh, and if you want to do this yourself, I stole cut-and-pasted the basic list from here; it is easier to work off of that than off of my list full of ramblings. (If you want to add my additions to the list, feel free, but you don't have to. I just felt the need to pimp those books.)