My 2007 reading list

Nov 22, 2006 16:49

Books already purchased are marked with a *. Take into account, too, that I only included those books on my list that I either haven't read at all, or have read but no longer have and I feel are good enough to keep. Behind a cut, because it's a 9 page word document.


A
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Emma, Jane Austen
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
A Death in the Family, James Agee
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
Money, Martin Amis
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
The Amityville Horror (1977) - Jay Anson
The Restaurant at the End of The Universe (1980) - Douglas Adams
I, Robot (1950) - Isaac Asimov

B
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Herzog, Saul Bellow
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
The Martian Chronicles (1950) - Ray Bradbury
The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty

C
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Falconer, John Cheever
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad (*)
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
Girlfriend In A Coma (1998) - Douglas Coupland
Jurassic Park (1990) - Michael Crichton
Hey Nostradamus! (2003) - Douglas Coupland
Microserfs (1995) - Douglas Coupland
Generation X (1991) - Douglas Coupland
Congo (1980) - Michael Crichton
Shampoo Planet (1992) - Douglas Coupland
Life After God (1994) - Douglas Coupland
All Families Are Psychotic (2001) - Douglas Coupland
The Prince of Tides (1986) - Pat Conroy
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) - Samuel Clemens
The Power of One - Bryce Courtnay
Sphere (1987) - Michael Crichton

D
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The Twits, Roald Dahl
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Deliverance, James Dickey
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
White Noise, Don DeLillo
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
End Zone (1972) - Don DeLillo
Underworld (1997) - Don DeLillo
Americana (1971) - Don DeLillo
Great Jones Street (1973) - Don DeLillo
The Divine Invasion (1981) - Philip K. Dick

E
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
The Virgin Suicides (1993) - Jeffrey Eugenides
Less Than Zero (1985) - Bret Easton Ellis
American Tabloid (1995) - James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential (1990) - James Ellroy

F
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Magus, John Fowles
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Light in August, William Faulkner
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
Alas, Babylon (1959) - Pat Frank

G
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Loving, Henry Green
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
The Recognitions, William Gaddis
A Time to Kill (1989) - John Grisham
Ellen Foster (1987) - Kaye Gibbons
Better Times Than These (1978) - Winston Groom
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Firm (1991) - John Grisham

H
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Dune, Frank Herbert
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
The Hottest State (1996) - Ethan Hawke
Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris
The Blackboard Jungle (1954) - Evan Hunter
Double Whammy (1987) - Carl Hiaasen
Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen

I
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving (*)
The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

J
Ulysses, James Joyce
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (*)
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James (*)
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

K
The Stand, Stephen King
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
KIM by Rudyard Kipling
IT by Stephen King
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
Bag of Bones (1998) - Stephen King
Cell (2006) - Stephen King
The Green Mile (1996) - Stephen King
Rage (1977) - Stephen King
The Talisman (1984) - Stephen King & Peter Straub
The Long Walk (1979) - Stephen King
The Dark Tower: (2004) - Stephen King
The Shining (1977) - Stephen King
Salem’s Lot (1975) - Stephen King
Desperation (1996) - Stephen King
The Colorado Kid (2005) - Stephen King
Christine (1983) - Stephen King

L
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
YARROW by Charles de Lint
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence (*)
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
TRADER by Charles de Lint
GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) - Madelein L'Engle

M
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (*)
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
Fletch (1974) - Gregory McDonald
The Pleasure of My Company (2003) - Steve Martin
All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy
Fletch's Fortune (1978) - Gregory McDonald

N
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
Lucifer's Hammer (1977) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

O
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
Going After Cacciato (1978) - Tim O'Brien

P
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Survivor (1999) - Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahniuk
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) - Steven Pressfield
Davita's Harp - Chaim Potok
Acres and Pains (1947) - S.J. Perelman

R
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

S
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
Cannery Row (1945) - John Steinbeck
Raise High the Roof Beam, Capenters and Seymour An Introduction (1963)
- J.D. Salinger
The Moon Is Down (1942) - John Steinbeck
The Red Pony (1932) - John Steinbeck

T
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

U
Rabbit, Run, John Updike

V
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus (1990) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Bluebeard (1987) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Timequake (1997) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2000) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Jailbird (1979) - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cat's Cradle (1963) - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

W
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Native Son, Richard Wright
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1895) - H.G. Wells
The Bridges of Madison County (1992) - Robert James Waller
The War of the Worlds (1898) - H.G. Wells
Trainspotting (1996) - Irvine Welsh

Y
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

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