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julietIt's books. I have to do it.
(bold = read)
1984, George Orwell (scared the crap out of me)
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (no, but have been meaning to)
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (I *loved* all of these)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens (cannot stand bloody Dickens. Being paid by the word was *very* bad for his writing style)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (OK, despite general dislike of Dickens, I am rather fond of this)
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, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson (have read a couple of hers, when I was working in a library. No idea which ones. Average)
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 and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (Got through the trilogy but wasn't wildly impressed)
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 trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams (preferred Dirk Gently, mind, & certainly by the end of the Hitchhikers books it was all getting a bit *stretched*)
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar (neverheardofit)
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith (no, but have seen it somewhere & meant to...)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (read for GCSE & *still* adored)
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer (ICK ICK ICK. But he *is* still in prison, you know)
Katherine, Anya Seton (think so, anyway. Read loads of hers)
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis (& never even registered the symbolism till about 10 years later. Didn't like some of the other Narnia ones so much, though)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (one of my favouritest books when I was younger)
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien (still one of my favouritest books. Gets me every time despite the fact that I've read it so many times I could practically recite the damn thing)
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton (yay!)
Magician, Raymond E Feist (don't think so. Think it's on my list)
The Magus, John Fowles (neverheardofit)
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (on the list)
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman (neverheardofit)
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (lovely)
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving (don't like Irving much - read Garp, though)
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell (v fine)
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (there was a wooden door in a big wall round the corner from our house that my sister & I were *convinced* led into a secret garden. We never got to find out, though - too high to try climbing, & it was on a main road)
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King (don't like horror *at all*)
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome (these are all wonderful & I adored them. I still want to learn to sail - a couple of summers ago I got as far as the absolute basics with the university club but then ran out of spare time. I did learn the hard way how to uncapsize, though)
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (on my Favourite Ever Books list)
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (I like the Muppet version, mind)
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce (I've been *meaning* to...)
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy (as a form of protest when forced to go on family holiday aged 16 "See! I'm so bored I'm reading War & sodding Peace!". Cannot, therefore, remember what I thought of it)
Watership Down, Richard Adams (wonderful book)
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame (also a wonderful book)
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne (repeatedly)
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
So that's... 70 read, 30 unread.
In other news, after an extensive search this morning, I finally located my skirt-with-buttons-on, which had in fact been hiding in a *different part* of the wardrobe all along. Which is good, as I kept accusing Pete of having left it in the launderette, & also because I'd miss it.
(bold = read)
1984, George Orwell (scared the crap out of me)
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (no, but have been meaning to)
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (I *loved* all of these)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens (cannot stand bloody Dickens. Being paid by the word was *very* bad for his writing style)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (OK, despite general dislike of Dickens, I am rather fond of this)
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, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson (have read a couple of hers, when I was working in a library. No idea which ones. Average)
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 and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (Got through the trilogy but wasn't wildly impressed)
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 trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams (preferred Dirk Gently, mind, & certainly by the end of the Hitchhikers books it was all getting a bit *stretched*)
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar (neverheardofit)
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith (no, but have seen it somewhere & meant to...)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (read for GCSE & *still* adored)
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer (ICK ICK ICK. But he *is* still in prison, you know)
Katherine, Anya Seton (think so, anyway. Read loads of hers)
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis (& never even registered the symbolism till about 10 years later. Didn't like some of the other Narnia ones so much, though)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (one of my favouritest books when I was younger)
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien (still one of my favouritest books. Gets me every time despite the fact that I've read it so many times I could practically recite the damn thing)
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton (yay!)
Magician, Raymond E Feist (don't think so. Think it's on my list)
The Magus, John Fowles (neverheardofit)
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (on the list)
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman (neverheardofit)
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (lovely)
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving (don't like Irving much - read Garp, though)
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell (v fine)
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (there was a wooden door in a big wall round the corner from our house that my sister & I were *convinced* led into a secret garden. We never got to find out, though - too high to try climbing, & it was on a main road)
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King (don't like horror *at all*)
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome (these are all wonderful & I adored them. I still want to learn to sail - a couple of summers ago I got as far as the absolute basics with the university club but then ran out of spare time. I did learn the hard way how to uncapsize, though)
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (on my Favourite Ever Books list)
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (I like the Muppet version, mind)
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce (I've been *meaning* to...)
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy (as a form of protest when forced to go on family holiday aged 16 "See! I'm so bored I'm reading War & sodding Peace!". Cannot, therefore, remember what I thought of it)
Watership Down, Richard Adams (wonderful book)
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame (also a wonderful book)
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne (repeatedly)
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
So that's... 70 read, 30 unread.
In other news, after an extensive search this morning, I finally located my skirt-with-buttons-on, which had in fact been hiding in a *different part* of the wardrobe all along. Which is good, as I kept accusing Pete of having left it in the launderette, & also because I'd miss it.
