That Book Sheep

[lathany]

Here are the current top 50 books from here (note: I just nicked _kent's list rather than checking it was still the same). Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Underline the books you probably won't read. Pass it on:

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

Pretty much all the ones I don't want to read I've seen as films or know enough about them to have been put off. Being a creature of habit, most of the ones I want to read are by authors I've read other work of.



In other news, I have the cold. Along with bateleur and Ryan. However I'm feeling pretty upbeat; my year-delayed game is due to debut this weekend!

Comments

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't torture yourself with Catcher in the Rye. I read it on the advice of a friend and had to force myself to finish it. It is so boring that it was painful, and I don't like to think about it.

I know it's supposed to be one of the great novels of the twentieth century, but I can't figure out why.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

I utterly agree. One of my most tortured childhood memories is trying to write an essay for English recommending this piece of crap. Maybe I'd appreciaate it more now I'm older, but I doubt it.

Read the Orwell first. At least it's not turgid.

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

I have heard that Salinger's other stuff is better, but I'm not willing to take the plunge. Bore me once, shame on you, you know.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Ahem...you'd read Dan Brown before George Orwell?!?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Worse than that - she'd read another Dan Brown before George Orwell.

[applez.livejournal.com]

[shakes head in disappointment]