Julie at Bookworm has the 'books I have read' meme with a difference. You bold the books in the list that you have read, and add three more of your own at the end. The list is 430+ at the moment, and very broad ranging. I liked the look of it, so I'll have a go.... I reckon the clusters are interesting. And only adding three was a big challenge. It's true, I have read no Jane Austen, and as Catch 22 has been strangely impenetrable to me, I haven't read it either. Got half way through a number of times. I've also read some of this list to D'Arcy. His reading has improved a lot recently, which has got to be a good thing, and he's pretty pleased with himself.
   1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
   2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
   3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
   4. The Hitchhikers 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 Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers 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 Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
  28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  30. Alices 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 Joness 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. Midnights 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
 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
 131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
 134. Georges 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 OBrian
 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
 151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
 153. The Fifth Element, Terry Pratchett
 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos 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. Charlottes 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
 175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
 177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
 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, DC Andrews
 201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
 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. Winters 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
 213. The Married Man, Edmund White
 214. Winters 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 Dolls 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
 239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
 240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
 241. 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 Lengle
 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
 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
 262. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
 263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
 264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
 265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
 266. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
 267. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
 268. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
 269. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
 270. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
 271. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
 272. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
 273. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
 274. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
 275. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
 276. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
 277. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
 278. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
 279. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
 280. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
 281. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
 282. Haunted, Judith St. George
 283. Singularity, William Sleator
 284. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
 285. Different Seasons, Stephen King
 286. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
 287. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
 288. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
 289. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
 290. Illusions, Richard Bach
 291. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
 292. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
 293. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
 294. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
 295. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
 296. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
 297. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
 298. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
 299. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
 300. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
 301. Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
 302. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
 303. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
 304. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
 305. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
 306. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
 307. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
 308. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
 309. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
 310. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
 311. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
 312. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
 313. The Giver, Lois Lowry
 314. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
 315. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
 316. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
 317. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
 318. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
 319. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
 320. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
 321. Beowulf, Anonymous
 322. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
 323. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
 324. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
 325. Passage, Connie Willis
 326. Otherland, Tad Williams
 327. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
 328. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
 329. Beloved, Toni Morrison
 330. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
 331. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
 332. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
 333. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
 334. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
 335. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
 336. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
 337. The Genesis Code, John Case
 338. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
 339. Paradise Lost, John Milton
 340. Phantom, Susan Kay
 341. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
 342. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
 343. The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
 344. Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
 345. The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
 346. The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
 347. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
 348. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
 349. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
 350. Othello, by William Shakespeare
 351. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
 352. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
 353. Sati, Christopher Pike
 354. The Inferno, Dante
 355. The Apology, Plato
 356. The Small Rain, Madeline Lengle
 357. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
 358. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
 359. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
 360. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
 361. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
 362. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
 363. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
 364. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
 365. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
 366. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
 367. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
 368. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
 369. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
 370. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
 371. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
 372. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
 373. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
 374. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
 375. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
 376. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
 377. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
 378. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
 379. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
 380. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
 381. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
 382. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
 383. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
 384. Jhereg by Steven Brust
 385. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
 386. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
 387. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
 388. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
 389. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
 390. Neuromancer, William Gibson
 391. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
 392. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
 393. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
 394. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
 395. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
 396. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
 397. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
 398. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
 399. The God Boy, Ian Cross
 400. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
 401. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
 402. Misery, Stephen King
 403. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
 404. Hood, Emma Donoghue
 405. The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
 406. The Diary of Anne Frank
 407. Regeneration, Pat Barker
 408. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
 409. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
 410. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
 411. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
 412. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
 413. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
 414. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine Lengle
 415. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
 416. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
 417. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
 418. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
 419. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
 420. The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
 421. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
 422. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
 423. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
 424. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
 425. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
 426. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
 427. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
 428. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
 429. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
 430. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
 431. The Bridge, Iain Banks
 432. Everythings Eventual, Steven King
 433. The Taking, Dean Koontz
 434. Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian L Weiss
 435. Not What You Expected, Joan Aiken
 436. Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
 437. Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
 438. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin
 439. The L-Shaped Room, Lynne Reid Banks
 440. The Shiralee. D'Arcy Niland
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
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2 comments:
Excellent! :) I'm with you on Jane Austen, though I did finally manage to finish Pride and Prejudice after three tries.
Some of the people who commented on mine also gave recommendations for what to read and what not to read, which I think is very nice. It should be officially part of the meme, in fact. So...
Recommended: The Phantom Tollbooth
Not recommended: Possession
Cool, I like the advice addition, so I went back to yours and recommended some....
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