Saturday, October 14, 2006

The big list of books

Another meme from Andrew Wheeler.

The rules: books you've read are in bold, books you intend to read are in italics, and add three books at the end.
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (a good beach/vacation/train trip book)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
  • Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
  • Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson
  • Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  • The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  • A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
  • 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
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  • Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  • The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman (one of the funniest books of all time)
  • 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
  • The Unberable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  • Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
  • The Nature of Blood - Caryl Phillips
  • Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - Ed. David Sedaris
  • Yarn Harlot - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
  • Spook - Mary Roach
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanne Clarke
  • Marley and Me - John Grogan
  • Gone to the Dogs - Emily Carmichael
  • Book the 11th: The Grim Grotto: The Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
  • State of Fear - Michael Crichton
  • The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
  • Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
  • The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
  • The Snow Fox - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  • Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman (An all time favourite)
  • Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
  • Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
  • The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie
  • The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
  • Sabine's Notebook - Nick Bantock
  • Strangers in the Night - Linda Howard
  • Night Tales (v.1) - Nora Roberts
  • Reunion - Nora Roberts
  • White Lies - Linda Howard
  • Fever Season (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Divine Rite (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Angel With a Sword (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Mount Dragon - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (Relic and it's sequels rock!)
  • Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
  • Settling Accounts: Return Engagement - Harry Turtledove (the next HT series I'll be tackling, I think)
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  • Cell - Stephen King (I guess, but I'm so far behind in my King reading)
  • Staying Dead - Laura Anne Gilman
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  • Star Trek: S.C.E. #66: Many Splendors - Keith R. A. DeCandido
  • The Crucible, Book Three: The Crippled Angel - Sara Douglass
  • Star Trek: Mere Anarchy, Book One: Things Fall Apart - Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore Dragonlance Chronicles, Book One: Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
  • Star Trek: Mere Anarchy, Book Two: The Centre Cannot Hold - Mike W. Barr
  • Duty First: A year in the Life of West Point and the Making of American Leaders - Ed Ruggo
  • Hit Parade - Lawrence Block
  • Jpod - Douglas Coupland
  • Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
  • The Neon Wilderness - Nelson Algren
  • The Bride Wore Black - Cornell Woolrich
  • Rain in the Doorway - Thorne Smith
  • City of Glass (graphic novel) - Paul Auster with Paul Karasik & David Mazzaucchelli
  • Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero - Karen Traviss
  • The Starslip Crisis Technical Manual - Kristofer Straub
  • Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reinventing Paul- John Gager
  • The Ghost Stories of M.R. James- selected by Michael Cox
  • La vita nuova- Dante
  • Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows- David R. George III
  • Dancing After Hours- Andre Dubus
  • Gun, with Occasional Music- Jonathan Lethem
  • Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
  • Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
  • Dancing on the Edge of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
  • The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
  • Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
  • Davy - Edgar Pangborn
  • Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
  • Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

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