The book meme
May. 21st, 2003 12:16 pmThe ones I've read in bold. Quite a few, I must admit, I read just because someone shoved them at me. I didn't necessarily enjoy them.
I must also point out this is a terribly anglo-american list. Where's "Seven Little Australians"? How about "My Brother Jack" or "Tangara", "We of the Never Never", "An Older Kind of Magic" or even "Dot and the Kangaroo"? Or a classical old one like "For the Term of his Natural Life"?
Oh well - time to count.
1984 - George Orwell
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Charlie & Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Emma - Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Holes - Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Katherine - Anya Seton
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe - CS Lewis
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Magician - Raymond E Feist
The Magus - John Fowles
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History - Donna Tart
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
The Stand - Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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Date: 2003-05-21 01:32 am (UTC)HSC (Matric) exam fodder.