Book Meme June 3, 2006
Posted by dhar in Books.trackback
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 NiffeneggerHis Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) – J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi – Yann MartelAnimal 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 HaddonLord of the Flies – William Golding
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen1984 – 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 GoldenHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) – J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner – Khaled HosseiniHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) – J.K. Rowling
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons – Dan BrownHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Book 1) – J.K. Rowling
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Secret History – Donna TarttA Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) – J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights – Emily BronteBrave 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 IrvingThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Middlesex – Jeffrey EugenidesThe Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Jane Eyre – Charlotte BronteGood Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement – Ian McEwanThe Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret AtwoodDune – Frank Herbert
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Unberable Lightness of Being – Milan KunderaThe Last Continent – Terry Pratchett
Hey Nostradamus! – Douglas Coupland
The Nature of Blood – Caryl Phillips
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules – Ed. David Sedaris
The Book of Skulls – Robert SilverbergPersepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi (Havent been able to lay hands on this one yet…)
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King
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
You maybe ought to keep in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Unbearable Lightness of Being – both really fantastic books.
you plan to read da vinci code man ? abominable writing.
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.
I would also strongly recommend The Handmaid’s Tale.
http://vivekspace.wordpress.com/2005/01/27/nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum/