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[electricland]

from raithen:

Here are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Pass it on:

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 (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
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 (Book 3) - 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 - got it out of the library once but didn't start it, I know it's supposed to be marvellous, but am not sure.
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown Thanks, Da Vinci Code was PLENTY.
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson - does getting halfway through count? I keep running into people who adore it, but I really had a hard time with it.
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess mmmmaybe...
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - one day maybe...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - that one is actually on the List of Doom!
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - never heard of it! Any good?
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway - since I loathed For Whom the Bell Tolls, perhaps I'll like this...
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

Comments

[themusesbitch.livejournal.com]

Definitely pick up a copy of The Kite Runner, it's excellent.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Good to know! I think my mother read it and liked it a lot, too. Right, on the list it goes.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

I was just given a gift certificate to Chapters, so I might just get it. BSG dvds can wait.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

As I had to run errands today, I did, in fact, pick it up. I'm looking forward to reading it.