Showing posts with label Katrina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katrina. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2013

A list rediscovery

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.

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