Lists of books

Read, Might Read, Won't Read

I'm a sucker for lists and found these on someone's blog. I've sorted them to make the list fit me, rather than me fit the list. So I deleted almost all the ones I hadn't read and sorted others into lists, adding books I felt were missing from the original list!

Thoroughly enjoyed (no particular order and for a variety of reasons)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman
The Life of Pi-Yann Martel

Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (before the movies!!)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Narnia series C.S. Lewis - don't know how many times I've read this

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Dune (the whole series - Frank Herbert
Dragon series - Anne McCaffrey
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
A Fine Balance, Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Jazz, - Toni Morrison
The reader - Bernand Shlink
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A Wizard of Earthsea series - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dark is Rising series - Susan Cooper
Little Women series - Louisa May Alcott
Mother tongue - Bill Bryson - nice dip-into book
The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, Unless - Carol Shields
Ann Patchett
Possession - A.S. Byatt

There are so many more to put in here - often the names blur, unless I see them to jolt my memory. Should go and look on my bookshelf, but haven't...

Never finished
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Accordion Crimes - E. Annie Proulx
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyesvki

Books/movies/TV
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams - don't think I've read it but enjoyed the TV series and the more recent movie

Ho-hum/yawn

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - He is random, in my opinion. Most recently was Widow for a year - again OK.

Must read again sometime (dim dark reading in the past)

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

1984 - George Orwell

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene - definitely need to revisit Graham Greene

Continuum from OK - Good

All the Harry Potter books - J. K. Rowling - and yes I will read the next one and see the movie

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

On Beauty, White Teeth - Zadie Smith

The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie

Small Island - Andrea Levy

Disgrace - JM Coetzee

Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Taft Ann Patchett

Must get round to reading

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Schriver

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy