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thread: Book list challenge on Facebook

  1. #55

    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
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    Subbing

    I didnt know this thread existed but I want in!

    I will be back when I am on Pc and work out which ones I have already read.

  2. #56

    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
    8,425

    The List What I have read so far is in bold

    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Bible - Various - Read bits of but never from start to finish
    Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - love this book
    1984 - George OrwellNorthern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
    Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
    Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
    Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - brilliant book, read many times
    The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - again, brilliant
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Probably the best book ever written...okay, that's a big call, but one of my all time favourites!!!
    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (years ago but not as adult)
    Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
    Emma - Jane Austen - Jane Austen was a woman before her time
    Persuasion - Jane Austen
    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
    Animal Farm - George Orwell - George Orwell is amazing...1984 is better though
    The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - I am a little bit in love with Margaret Atwood
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Atonement - Ian McEwan - reading it at the moment!
    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    Dune - Frank Herbert
    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles ****ens
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meh - thought it was a little overrated
    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Steinbeck...need I say more!
    Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    Moby **** - Herman Melville
    Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - I would probably marry Bill Bryson
    Ulysses - James Joyce
    The Inferno - Dante
    Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom
    Germinal - Emile Zol (it's actually Emil Zola)
    Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
    Possession - AS Byatt
    A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
    Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
    The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Great book!
    A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    Charlotte’s Web - EB White
    The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - I spent my childhood with these books...And the Wishing Chair, Secret Seven, Famous Five, etc, etc (yay for Enid Blyton!)
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
    Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
    Bleak House - Charles ****ens
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

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