Reading list

(Was previously a draft)

Original meme is missing though. IIRC bold items are read, italicized unfinished, normal unread.

Bah. Sucks to be me.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. 1984, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach, Alex Garland 104. Dracula, Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun, James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison — I blame Diane for this. 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 144. It, Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile, Stephen King 147. Papillon, Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 162. River God, Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp, John Irving 166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches, Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco — definitely recommended 175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder — was introduced to me via Philo class, as with most people AFAICT 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov — I'm curious enough to really want to read this 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner, George Eliot 185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith 187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine 189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons 193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews 201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien — The language doesn't agree with me 202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan 203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan 204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan 205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan 206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan 207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan 208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan 209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan 210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan 211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto 212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland — anyone willing to lend his/her copy? 213. The Married Man, Edmund White 214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin 215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault 216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice 217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell 218. Equus, Peter Shaffer 219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten 220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke 221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn 222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice 223. Anthem, Ayn Rand 224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson 225. Tartuffe, Moliere 226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller 228. The Trial, Franz Kafka 229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles 230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles 231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther 232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen 233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen 234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton 235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry 236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read 237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono 238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde 240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley 241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson 242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny 242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 243. Summerland, Michael Chabon 244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 245. Candide, Voltaire 246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl 247. Ringworld, Larry Niven 248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault 249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle 251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde 252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne 253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan 255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson 256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith 257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony — other Xanth novels, yes, but not this 258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum 259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon 260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde 261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde 261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel 263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver 264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris 265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder 267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls 268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock 269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland 270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien 271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt 272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor 273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg 274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster 275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan 277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan 278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child 279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire 280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman 281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry 282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum 283. Haunted, Judith St. George 284. Singularity, William Sleator 285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson 286. Different Seasons, Stephen King 287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk 288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby 289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning 290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns 291. Illusions, Richard Bach 292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey 293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey 294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey 295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav 296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker 297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love 299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. 301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving. 302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card 303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland 304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille 305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust 306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh 307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco — best read before reading "The Da Vinci Code" 308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson 309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk 310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz 311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand — must get myself a copy 312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk 313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu 314. The Giver, Lois Lowry 315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin 316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) 317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold 318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold 319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) 320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill 321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman) 322. Beowulf, Anonymous 323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell 324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley 325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey 326. Passage, Connie Willis 327. Otherland, Tad Williams 328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay 329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 330. Beloved, Toni Morrison 331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore 332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin 333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume 334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo 335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev 336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover 337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson 338. The Genesis Code, John Case 339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson 340. Paradise Lost, John Milton 341. Phantom, Susan Kay 342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice 343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman 344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher 345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson 346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service 347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz 348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok 349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler 350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill 351. Othello, by William Shakespeare 352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats 354. Sati, Christopher Pike 355. The Inferno, Dante 356. The Apology, Plato 357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle 358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick 359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater 360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier 361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier 362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder 364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King 335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass 336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie 337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson 338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster 339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky 340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux 341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg 342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy 343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones 344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown 345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo 346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer 347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck 348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston 350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel 351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold 352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre 353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley 354. Sewer, Gas, and Electric by Matt Ruff 355. Jhereg by Steven Brust 356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane 357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville 358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte 359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz 360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 361. Neuromancer, William Gibson 362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr 364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault 365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King 366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare 367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner 368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens 370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons 371. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel 372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers 373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond 374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card 375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold 376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper 377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett 379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson. 380. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin. 381. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb. 382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass 383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie 384. Sabriel, Garth Nix 385. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman 386. The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris 387. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston 388. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin 389. The House with a Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs 390. The Wings of a Falcon, Cynthia Voigt 391. Gain, by Richard Powers 392. White Noise, by Don DeLillo 393. Koko, by Peter Straub 394. Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan 395. Wind Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery 396. The Monkeywrench Gang, Edward Abbey 397. Mistress Marsham's Repose, T. H. White 398. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon 399. Regeneration, Pat Barker 400. How to be good, Nick Hornby 401. Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold 402. The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer 403. Goodbye, Johnny Thunders, Tania Kindersley 404. Elvis Has Left The Building, Tania Kindersley 405. The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice 406. Chocolat, by Joanne Harris 407. Rhapsody, by Elizabeth Haydon 408. An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth 409. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath 410. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf 411. Franny and Zooey, by JD Salinger 412. Vigilant, by James Alan Gardner 413. Greenmantle, by Charles de Lint 414. Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison 415. Ham on Rye, by Charles Bukowski 416. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse 417. The Stranger, by Albert Camus 418. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig 419. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 420. The Redneck Manifesto, Jim Goad 421. Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr 422. Tin Drum, Gunther Grass 423. From Russia, with Love, Ian Fleming 424. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 425. Swan Song, Robert McGammon 426. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire 427. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes 428. Chonicles of Wasted Time by Malcom Muggeridge 429. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 430. Bones of the Moon, Jonathan Carroll 431. Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow 432. Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore 433. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea 434. The Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison 435. Book of the Damned, Tanith Lee 436. Motel of the Mysteries, David Macaulay 437. 21 Balloons, William Pene Dubois 438. It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis 439. The Ivankiad, V. Voinovich 440. Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse 441. The Gospel of Corax, P. Park 442. The Dark Is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper 443. Elfshadow, Elaine Cunningham 444. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse 445. Sacrament, Clive Barker 446. The Joy of Gay Sex, any edition 447. Like The Molave and other poems, R. Zulueta da Costa 448. Stupid White Men by Michael Moore 449. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck 450. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 451. 31 Songs, Nick Hornby 452. Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut 453. Hard Love, Elle Wittlinger 454. Idoru, William Gibson 455. Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson 456. The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle

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