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chazzbanner. Books, books, books.... someday I think I'll list all the books in my apartment. Only that would be a long list and I don't think anyone would bother to read it. Still. It would be fun. For me.
Here are the current top 50 books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read, ignore books you have no opinion on. Pass it on.
I'll add stars for my personal quality ratings. *=read it and didn't like it. **= readable, but not good ***good ****excellent *****one of my favourite books. I see only two five-star ratings here, though To Kill a Mockingbird comes close.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger ****
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams ***
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald ***
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ****
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman * Note: I only read the first volume. Why read the rest when I disliked it?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling ****
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell ***
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller ****
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien **
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding ***
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ***
1984 - George Orwell ***
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling ***
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez **? I actually never got through it.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut **
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess ****
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë ***
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *** It strikes me that I don't remember this well, but liked it well enough when I read it.
American Gods - Neil Gaiman ***
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card I have great respect for Card's writing ability, but his personal opinions have made him a writer I can't/won't read.
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving I don't like Irving's style.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis **
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides I have this on loan from the library, but I'm reading another book first.
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien *****
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë *****
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman ****
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway ****
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood *** An odd case; I thught it was brilliant but I can't say I liked it; it terrified me.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert **
chazzbanner. Books, books, books.... someday I think I'll list all the books in my apartment. Only that would be a long list and I don't think anyone would bother to read it. Still. It would be fun. For me.Here are the current top 50 books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read, ignore books you have no opinion on. Pass it on.
I'll add stars for my personal quality ratings. *=read it and didn't like it. **= readable, but not good ***good ****excellent *****one of my favourite books. I see only two five-star ratings here, though To Kill a Mockingbird comes close.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger ****
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams ***
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald ***
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ****
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman * Note: I only read the first volume. Why read the rest when I disliked it?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling ****
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell ***
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller ****
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien **
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding ***
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ***
1984 - George Orwell ***
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling ***
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez **? I actually never got through it.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut **
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess ****
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë ***
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *** It strikes me that I don't remember this well, but liked it well enough when I read it.
American Gods - Neil Gaiman ***
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis **
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides I have this on loan from the library, but I'm reading another book first.
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien *****
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë *****
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman ****
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway ****
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood *** An odd case; I thught it was brilliant but I can't say I liked it; it terrified me.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert **
