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Book Meme June 3, 2006

Posted by dhar in Books.
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Tried one of the book memes floating around on the Net and realized surprisingly that I haven't even heard of a few titles. Anyway, the way I have categorized stuff is as follows: 

Read / Currently Reading: Bold
Planning to Read: Italicized
Havent Heard / Not planning to read / Given Up: Strike Out 

And here is the list: 

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
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
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
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi (Havent been able to lay hands on this one yet…)
The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Green
Philosophy & Social Hope - Richard Rorty
The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
The Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Comments»

1. litlove - June 3, 2006

You maybe ought to keep in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Unbearable Lightness of Being - both really fantastic books.

2. jake - June 3, 2006

you plan to read da vinci code man ? abominable writing.

3. dhar - June 3, 2006

Aha.. this is what I love about Blogs and comments. I would have never bothered reading The Handmaid’s Tale and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But since someone recommends them strongly, I will give them both a try.

And Jake, I read da Vinci code long time back. :)

Cheers,
D.

4. Vivek Kumar - June 3, 2006

I would also strongly recommend The Handmaid’s Tale.

http://vivekspace.wordpress.com/2005/01/27/nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum/