I rediscovered a list on here which I made 4 years ago, I then stopped blogging and promptly forgot about this list.
These are the books I have left on it to read, there are a few that I have can't remember why they are on the list, these I will have to investigate:
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
3. The Cider House Rules: A Novel by John Irving
4. Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally
5. Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
7. Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
8. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
9. Gravity's Rainbow
10. Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
11. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
12. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
13. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
14. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
15. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
16. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
18. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
19. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
20. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
21. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Danial Deronda, George Eliot
23. The Water-Babies (a Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby) by Charles KIngsley
24. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
25. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
26. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
27. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
28. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
29. The Metamorphoses by Ovid
30. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
31. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
32. Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
33. A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
34.Merlin's Brooke, Jane Yolen
35. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
36. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
37.Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
38. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
39. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
40. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
41.Canary Row, Steinbeck
42. In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
43.Migel Street, Naiupaul
44. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
45.The Wild Wood, Charles de Lint
46.In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje
47.Pendragon
48. The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
49. Crash by J.G. Ballard
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
51. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
52. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
53.The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
54. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
55.Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono
56.The Devil that Danced on the Water, Aminatta Furna
57.The Circle of Karma, Kunzang Choden
58. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
59.I AM David, Holm
60. The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps by Michel Faber
Quite nice to see that I had read 40 from the list with no prompt. I will continue tackling this list and see what I can acheive by April next year.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Katrina's List
This is my 5 year list, a lot of books are from the 1001 btrbyd list because I used that kick-start my memory, I own 46 of these books already so they would make a much needed dent in my tbr mountain
1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
5. Blonde: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
6. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. Great Apes by Will Self
9. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
10. A Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth
11. WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA, by Jung Chang
12. The Cider House Rules: A Novel by John Irving
13. Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally
14. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
15. Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
16. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
17. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
18. Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
19. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
20. Gravity's Rainbow
21. Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
22. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
23. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
24. The Go Between, L. P Hartley
25. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
26. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
27. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
28. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
29. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
30. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
31. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
32. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
33. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
34. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
35. The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton
36. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
37. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
38. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. Danial Deronda, George Eliot
40. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
41. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
42. The Water-Babies (a Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby) by Charles KIngsley
43. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
44. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
45. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
46. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
47. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
48. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
49. The Metamorphoses by Ovid
50. Aesop's Fables
51. Affinity, Sarah Waters
52. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
53. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
54. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
55. Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
56. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
57. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
58. Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
59. A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
60.Merlin's Brooke, Jane Yolen
61. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
62. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
63. The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye, A.S Byatt
64. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
65. Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
66. Love in the Time of Cholera
67.Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
68. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
69. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
70. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
71.Canary Row, Steinbeck
72. In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
73.Migel Street, Naiupaul
74. Whole of a Morning Sky, Nichols
75. Small Island, Levy
76. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
77. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
78.The Wild Wood, Charles de Lint
79. Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
80.In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje
81.White Tiger
82.Pendragon
83. The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
84. Crash by J.G. Ballard
85. Toms Midnight Garden, Pearce
86. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
87. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
88. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
89. A Fraction of a Whole, Tolkz
90. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
91.The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
92. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
93.Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono
94.The Devil that Danced on the Water, Aminatta Furna
95.The Circle of Karma, Kunzang Choden
96. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
97.I AM David, Holm
98. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
99. We, Eugene Zamitin
100. The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps by Michel Faber
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
6.
12. The Cider House Rules: A Novel by John Irving
13. Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally
15. Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
16. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
18. Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
19. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
20. Gravity's Rainbow
21. Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
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24.
25. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
26. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
27.
28. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
29. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
30. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
31. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
32. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
33.
34. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
35.
36. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
37. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
38. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. Danial Deronda, George Eliot
41.
42. The Water-Babies (a Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby) by Charles KIngsley
43. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
44. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
45.
46. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
47. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
48. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
49. The Metamorphoses by Ovid
50. Aesop's Fables
51.
52. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
53.
54.
55.
56. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
57. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
58. Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
59. A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
60.Merlin's Brooke, Jane Yolen
61. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
62. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
68. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
69. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
70. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
71.Canary Row, Steinbeck
72. In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
73.Migel Street, Naiupaul
74.
75.
76. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
77.
78.The Wild Wood, Charles de Lint
79.
80.In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje
81.
82.Pendragon
83. The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
84. Crash by J.G. Ballard
85.
86. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
87. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
88. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
89.
90.
91.The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
92. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
93.Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono
94.The Devil that Danced on the Water, Aminatta Furna
95.The Circle of Karma, Kunzang Choden
96. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
97.I AM David, Holm
98.
99.
100. The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps by Michel Faber
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