1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (I LOVED this book as a little girl--I think I read it at least 3 or 4 times--as well as the rest of the series.)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens (ugh I HATE Dickens)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (ugh I HATE Dickens)
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (ugh I HATE Dickens)
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen (Oooh, I LOVE Austen--probably my favorite author)
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (ugh I HATE Dickens)
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (The Brontes also write good books, including this one)
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (I also adored this book!)
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac (I only got through half this book, so I guess I won't count it....sorry Martin)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (HA HA this is like the 4th mention of this book in 2 days, and I hadn't heard of it before.)
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen (Did I mention how much I LOVE Austen?)
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen (Austen ROCKS)
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (You'd think I would like this book, but I was actually quite bored by it as a kid.)
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (Did I mention how much I hate Dickens?)
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (Also an excellent book.)
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame (Another book I found boring as a kid and couldn't finish.)
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (Another awesome book from a Bronte sister.)

Overall, I don't think I fared TOO badly on this list, do you? So which books have you read? Which ones would you like to read? Which ones do you hate?? I'd like to read a good number of books on this list, although excluding Dickens, I'd probably be interested in reading all these books just to see what the hype is about.

Add a Comment]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2004 8:36:13 -0800 http://www.icyshard.com/archives/2004/01/read_much#000679 Hitchikers Guide and Good Omens are 2 of the funniest books ever written.

I know I wrote essays on quite a few of these, but that definitely doesn't mean I read them. I think the only respectable book I read on there was Anna Karenina. That was long and boring, but brought a good sense of accomplishment when I was done. I've read a couple others on there but not many. Most of the books I've read don't appear on there. Seems like "Peter Rabbit" and "The Fox and The Hound" didn't make the grade for this summer reading list.