Mommy has been panicking lately over Al’s allegedly sorry state of writing and reading, and the people in her life who are bad influences. Shra and I think she’ll be fine, but I have promised to go through a book and a book report-type assignment with Al every week this summer once she gets out of school.
Since I’ve got books on the brain:
BOOKS MEME
Yes, this is hugely long. Probably not fun to read, but fun to do. Some people don’t know when to capitalize their title words and when not to. I’ve corrected them when I noticed, but I probably missed a lot.
– bold those you’ve read
– underline those you own but haven’t gotten to yet
– italicize those you don’t own but plan to some day
– add three of your own
– post to your journal
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
1984, George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling
Middlemarch, George Eliot
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez – attempted, will one day re-attempt
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
Ulysses, James Joyce
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Shogun, James Clavell
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Possession, A. S. Byatt
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Papillon, Henri Charriere
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco – this is the first one Al and I are going to read together [this did not happen]
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery – actually I own the French
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Once and Future King, T. H. White
Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
Letters To a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
The Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Tartuffe, Jean-Baptise Moliere
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Candide, Voltaire
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin – one of my favorite books ever
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Giver, Lois Lowry – another all-time favorite
Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler
The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Beowulf, Anonymous – yes, and it is strange
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
The Genesis Code, John Case
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Paradise Lost, John Milton
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
Othello, by William Shakespeare
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas – a few of
The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats – a few of
The Inferno, Dante
The Apology, Plato
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Our Town, Thorton Wilder
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Neuromancer, William Gibson
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers – read a few of hers and can’t remember which is which [now one of my favorites!]
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le’Guin
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
Count Zero, William Gibson
Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Idoru, William Gibson
The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
The Agony and the Ecstacy, Irving Stone
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
Maus, Art Spiegelman
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
Right Ho, Jeeves!, PG Wodehouse
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill
The Gallery of Regrettable Food, James Lileks
The Years of Rice And Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
Illusions, Richard Bach
Living, Loving and Learning, Leo Buscaglia
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata
Letters From Earth, Mark Twain
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
A Question of Power, Bessie Head
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Beat Queen, Louise Erdich
The House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
The Republic, Plato – parts of
The World According to Garp, John Irving
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck – I’ve always liked this one
Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Cave, Jose Luis Saramago
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
[This post was imported on 4/10/14 from my old blog at satsumabug.livejournal.com. I’ve read an additional 12 books on this list since 2003.]
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goodness gracious
that list is much too long to go through my dear. and none of my friends would read it. they’re too unacademic acting.
~Shra
Very scary, but I’ve read more than 80 percent of these books…is this what I did at Berkeley?
Ying
Well love, you are an English major after all! You were REQUIRED to do this. 🙂
bold AND underline if you’ve seen the movie! 😉
-dana
(why it is 1:14am and i am still awake, i have no idea)
Hey Dana!
I thought it was you 😀
Because it’s FRIDAY and you have no work tomorrow, that’s why. 😉
Good to see you got home safely!
Good luck on that LSAT!
underline and italicize if you own it and never plan on reading it! =P
(man, i’m such a bad english major…)