- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- The Iliyad - Homer
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Boat - Nam Le
- My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
- Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
- Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
- Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton- 1984 - George Orwell
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The White Earth - Andrew McGhan
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy
- Wanting - Richard Flannagan
- A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
Schindlers Ark - Thomas Kennally- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker- The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel
Bleak House - Charles Dickens- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Anne of Green Gables - LM MontgomeryLove In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Monkeys Mask - Dorothy Porter
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksThe Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
- Tbe Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
East of Eden - John Steinbeck- The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- March - Geraldine Brooks
- The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami- Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
- Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
- The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd- The Gathering - Anne Enright
- Life & Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Divine Comedy - Dante
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
- Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Briony's List
Here's my list! It's made up of books I've been meaning to read but haven't, books I think I should have read, books that have won awards, and Australian books I haven't read (which is a horrifyingly large number and makes me a Bad Australian)
7 comments:
Oh, yay for The Power of One! I adore that book - it's really disturbing in places, but it is fantastic.
I've got to admit, I don't know a lot of Australian authors. I'm so bad!
I love austrailian writers (mostly fantasy though) so i'll definitly be picking from your list later on!
Oh, I've come to this site via Moonrat's blog, and am excited to find another Australian! Hello! Likewise, many of my gaps are in Australian lit. Funny how little of the good stuff we read at school/uni.
This whole project is a fantastic idea, and it's been great reading other people's lists. With each list I read, I spot something I've forgotten, or discover something I've never heard of but wish I had.
I've posted my list here (not sure if this is the way to do this? Apologies if not):
http://nomdegare.blogspot.com/2009/04/filling-in-gaps.html
I'll have to look into some of the books from Australian authors. After looking at my stats last year, I found that I didn't read enough books by non-american authors, so I'm always looking to diversify my selection.
Great choices.
Jen A - I remember my Mum trying to get me to read it a long time ago and I just couldn't get into it, but I was pretty young. Hopefully this time!
Amanda - Australian authors sneak under the radar a bit, I'm happy to fly the flag :)
Emily - Let me know! Actually you probably know more Australian fantasy authors than me!
Nom de Gare - Excellent, I'll check it out
J.C - It's funny, because American authors are probably my least read as well (which isn't a concsious thing, it just seems to be that way). Thanks!
Do make sure to let me know when you're reading His Dark Materials, since I did my undergraduate thesis on it.
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