Friday, May 26, 2006

Tagged

Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Make Red the ones you've started to read but never finished.Italicize the ones you might read.Cross out the ones you won’t.Underline the ones on your book shelf.Place (parentheses) around the ones you’ve never even heard of.

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
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J K Rowling
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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
Sula - Toni Morrison
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rusdie
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Schriver
Disgrace - J M Coetzee
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kuresh
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
(The Reader - Bernand Shlink
Father and Son - Larry Brown
Crooked Hearts - Robert Boswell
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb)
Postcards - E. Annie Proulx
(A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (stories) - Robert Olen Butler
Defiance - Carole Maso
Being Dead - Jim Crace
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos - John Berger
Holy the Firm - Annie Dillard
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance - Stephen HerreroDesert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven - Barry LopezRiver Notes: The Dance of Herons - Barry LopezThe Great Gatsby - F Scott FitzgeraldRagtime - E L DoctorowThe House of Sand and Fog - Andre DubusThe Last of the Just - Andre Schwartz-BartZorba the Greek - Nikos KazantzakisHousekeeping - Marilynne Robinson)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
(The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
A Bell for Adano - John Hersey)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(Herzog - Saul Bellow
Ripening Seed - Colette)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
(The Woman Warrier - Maxine Hong Kingston
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin)
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
Harold and the Duck - Bruce Robinson
A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Something Invisible - Siobhán Parkinson

7 comments:

Emmy Ellis said...

What a list!

Currently struggling through DaVinci Code! Hardly heard of any of the others.

Oops!

:o)

Liz Hinds said...

It was given to me! I've not heard of loads of them

Tim said...

Out of that massive list I've read Animal Farm and thats only because we studied it at school!

MaryB said...

This is a fabulous list! May I steal it for Shorty PJs, Liz? I'll give you full credit - (pretty please?)

Liz Hinds said...

I got it from Shirl so please take it, maryb.

Anna said...

What is the theme? Books we should read in our lifetimes? Great books? Hm? I have not heard of SO MANY of those. But am adding a good few to my Amazon Wishlist now.

Anonymous said...

Not my list originally! Hope the next time I'm tagged, it's a list of five things!