Monday, October 18, 2010

Jo's list

My list is mostly classic books I should have read, those by favourite authors that I haven't read, and some which have been on my TBR pile for far too long.  I'll be blogging about them at my book blog, Book Jay.


1. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett  
2. Eric - Terry Pratchett 
3. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett 
4. The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
5. Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
6. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 
7. Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
8. Nation - Terry Pratchett
9. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
10. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
11. The Marlows & The Traitor - Antonia Forest
12. The Player's Boy - Antonia Forest
13. The Players & The Rebels - Antonia Forest
14. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
15. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
16. Looking For Alaska - John Green 
17. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
18. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
19. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
20. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
21. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
22. 1984 - George Orwell
23. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
24. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
25. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut 
26. Evelina - Frances Burney
27. Redgauntlet - Walter Scott
28. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
29. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
30. Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
31. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
32. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
33. Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
34. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
35. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
36. Middlemarch - George Eliot
37. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
38. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
39. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
42. Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
43. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
44. Swallows & Amazons - Arthur Ransome
45. Skellig - David Almond 
46. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
47. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
48. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
49. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
50. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
51. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
52. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
53. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster 
54. The Longest Journey - E.M. Forster
55. Howards End - E.M. Forster
56. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster 
57. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
58. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
59. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Suzanna Clarke
60. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
61. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
62. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
63. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
64. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
65. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
66. North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
67. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
68. Another Country - James Baldwin
69. Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
70. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
71. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
72. The Quincunx - Charles Palliser
73. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
74. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
75. Possession - A.S. Byatt
76. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
77. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
78. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel 
79. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
80. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
81. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
82. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
83. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
84. Atonement - Ian McEwan
85. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
86. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
87. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
88. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
89. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
90. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
91. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92. Troubles - J.G. Farrell
93. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
94. Master & Margharita - Mikhail Bulgkov
95. Holes - Louis Sachar
96. Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
98. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
99. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
100. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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9 comments:

  1. ImageNationsOctober 18, 2010 at 3:06 AM

    We have some titles and authors in common. Would be following you on your reviews.

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  2. moonratOctober 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM

    Interesting list!

    MIDDLEMARCH has been one of my favorite Gaps books so far--I'm really glad this project made me get around to it :)

    I'm a big Sarah Waters fan, too.

    Welcome!

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  3. UnknownOctober 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM

    Jo -
    Very nice list. In fact I will be recreating mine with a few of yours added. Welcome!

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  4. JoOctober 18, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    Thanks for the welcomes (and hello!).

    I got halfway through MIDDLEMARCH once and then got distracted; am looking forward to going back to it.

    Shellie - which of mine are you adding? That is intriguing.

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  5. Emily CrossOctober 18, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    Great list. I see alot of my own in there too. I Capture the Castle is a wonderful book!!

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  6. UnknownOctober 18, 2010 at 8:49 AM

    Jo -
    I think about 10 of them, perhaps more. I am reworking my list so it is really interesting that you have so many that I plan to add.

    I would like to read a Pratchett and a Gaiman since I have not yet, as well as Rebecca by du Maurier. Just to name a few.

    The new list should be live soon. That's the plan anyway.....

    Looking forward to your reviews.

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  7. JoOctober 18, 2010 at 8:57 AM

    Emily - thank you. I Capture the Castle has been on my to read list forever, it will be good to read it at last.

    Shellie - Pratchett is one of my favourite authors; I'm really trying to plug the gaps in the Discworld series, which is fantastic.

    Now I just need to write a review...

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  8. LindaOctober 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM

    Great list. I see some overlap with my list as well as few of my favorites (Gone With The Wind, Anne of Green Gables).

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  9. J.C. MontgomeryOctober 19, 2010 at 9:35 PM

    I love your list. And welcome!

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