Thursday, April 06, 2006

Book Meme!

I love memes. I know some people find them annoying, but me, I love them. Especially when they have to do with books!

So, ripping this from booklust

Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place (parentheses) around the ones you've never even heard of.

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - Scott F. 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 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 - J. K. Rowling (as well as 1, 2, 4 and 5)

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
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 Can't do it, not after I've just sworn off Hemingway...
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Hated this book. I just, ugh. I got maybe a third of the way through and put it down. Didn't grab me at all.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
Sula by Toni Morrison I know, I know
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

What titles would you add to this list, be it because you love them or because you think they're worthy of note?

I would add:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Um, I know I have more...

Right. Thanks to Magnus, I'll have to add Philip K. Dick. The link is to a published collection of his short stories, which I highly recommend for anyone who hasn't yet read anything by him.

1 comment:

Magnus said...

If it isn't here haven't read it
* I liked it **** a lot - * it was okay
# I want to read it
@ I hated it

*** The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (a long time for this one)
** The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald
*** To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
# His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
# Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
**** Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
*** Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
@ Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Don't care for 19th century lit much.
*** 1984 - George Orwell
# Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling (as well as 1, 2, 4 and 5)
**** Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
*** The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
*** The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
@The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood -Couldn'tfinish this either. Hate Atwood's writing.
**** Dune - Frank Herbert
# White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
# Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
**** The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
# Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

My Additions?

The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell.
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
War in Heaven - Charles Williams
Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick