Books
I typically don't do lists or meme's or tags or whatever, but this one looked interesting to me. So there. I stole it from A High and Hidden Place, go there and have a look-see around, will ya?
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 Five (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)]
I thought this post would be quick and easy, however my habit of plowing through books means that quite a few titles I didn't realize I had read until I looked them up on Amazon.com. This even applied to a few on my bookshelf. I try to give away or donate books whenever I can, so I don't have much of a collection. It's my way of keeping the clutter under control. Did you notice how all of these books I've either read or never heard of at all? I know, boring post. Sorry. G'nite.
*Review the following list of books. Boldface the books you've read, italicize those you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, put an asterisk beside the ones on your bookshelves, and place brackets 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 Five (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)]
I thought this post would be quick and easy, however my habit of plowing through books means that quite a few titles I didn't realize I had read until I looked them up on Amazon.com. This even applied to a few on my bookshelf. I try to give away or donate books whenever I can, so I don't have much of a collection. It's my way of keeping the clutter under control. Did you notice how all of these books I've either read or never heard of at all? I know, boring post. Sorry. G'nite.
posted by Sam at
12:06 AM
17 Comments:
I have got to stop reading so much trash! If I did that list I would look silly.
Awww a fellow bookslut. I'm all warm and fuzzy now.
You have never heard of Catch 22?! Holy shit. Holy crap.
I say this - though I have never read it. And I am shitty ass drunk RIGHT NOW. You can always claim superiorty when you are drunk. I can't wait to come back and re-read this when I am sober.
I love you.
My clarivoyance, ESP, what have you is kicking in... I sense some leg-humping about to happen...
Clarivoyance? Fuck me. It's early.
I've only read four of those books. I miss having free time.
Jomama
(blogger's not letting me login)
That looks like fun! I might have to do it later.
I love to read just can't find the time anymore. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Some other fabulous reads:
Stranger in a Strange Land - by Robert Heinlein
Steel Beach - by
John Varley
Ender's Game - by
Orson Scott Card (Your kid might like this book too)
The above mentions are all sci-fi, but they manage to bridge the gap to modern times quite well.
Have a nice weekend sweetie!
The only one that surprises me is that you haven't heard of Catch-22. Where have you been?
One more thing totally unrelated to this post.
Addressing the comment by Cold Hands in the "I peed a Little" sidebar feature:
Cold Hands-Oh hell, if I wrote about every sex dream I've had about Sam, I'd have to start another blog.
The problem I have is that I choose to read books from the library while in the meantime my purchased are getting dusty on the bookshelf.... There is this time-pressure luring with the library. I just keep telling myself that once I will get a chance to my ever growing collection.
And yes, I also donate books to the library I either have read and moved on (parenting books anyone??)and don't wanna keep around any or books that were bought on a whim which were not that great after all.....
I am so glad I am not the only one that owns the Harry Potter books. For a while, I was worried about that, you know?
Too much trash is getting published nowadays. I blame the invention of word processing software...and al qaaeda.
Hey there Ms Hotness. Very impressive list there. Thanks for coming to visit! And not boring at all, not to a fellow book whore like myself :)
You really should read The Kite Runner. It is heartbreaking and wonderful. I enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife as well. And definitely LOVED The Shadow of the Wind.
Sam:
Judging from your blog you would probably really enjoy White Teeth by Zadie Smith. It is a quick read and really pretty funny. Check it out.
PS: Congratulations on Chicken's first recital. I am no piano afficanado but he seemed to do really well. Good kid you have there.
Be Cool.
Sam, you have to read The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and Peace Like a River (sorry, author's name escapes me...)
i am too embarrassed to do this list. i am a librarian and have not read half of these. but i want to!
maybe i will do it anyway....
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