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Book Meme -- How well read are you?

A really long list of books I found --- bold, the ones i have read; italics, the ones i am reading. copy, paste and apply the same rules ... when you finish, add…

Narendra Nag Recorded 30.06.04

A really long list of books I found — bold, the ones i have read; italics, the ones i am reading. copy, paste and apply the same rules … when you finish, add three books you have read to the end of the list.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. 1984, George Orwell

  1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

  1. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

  1. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières

  2. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s / Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

26. Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch, George Eliot

  1. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

  2. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

  1. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen

39. Dune, Frank Herbert

40. Emma, Jane Austen

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

42. Watership Down, Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

  1. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell

47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

  1. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

  2. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

  3. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

  4. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

  5. The Stand, Stephen King

  6. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

  7. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

  8. The BFG, Roald Dahl

  9. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

  1. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  2. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

  1. Mort, Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

  1. The Magus, John Fowles

  2. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

  3. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding

  1. Perfume, Patrick Susskind

  2. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

  3. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

  4. Matilda, Roald Dahl

  5. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

  6. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

  7. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

  8. Ulysses, James Joyce

  9. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

  10. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

  11. The Twits, Roald Dahl

  12. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar

  1. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

  1. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

  1. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist

  1. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel

  1. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

  1. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  1. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

  2. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot

100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

  1. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett

  2. The Beach, Alex Garland

104. Dracula, Bram Stoker

  1. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz

106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

  1. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz

  2. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks

109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth

  1. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson

111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy

  1. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend

  2. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat

  3. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

  1. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson

  2. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson

118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

119. Shogun, James Clavell

  1. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham

  2. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson

  3. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

  4. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy

  5. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

  6. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

  7. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

  8. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison

128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

  1. Possession, A. S. Byatt

  2. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

  3. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

  4. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl

  5. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck

  6. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl

  7. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

  8. The Color Purple, Alice Walker

  9. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

  10. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

  11. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson

  12. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson

  13. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  14. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson

143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

  1. It, Stephen King

  2. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

146. The Green Mile, Stephen King

147. Papillon, Henri Charriere

  1. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett

  2. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian

  3. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz

  4. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett

  5. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett

  6. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett

  7. Atonement, Ian McEwan

  8. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson

  9. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier

  10. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

  11. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling

  1. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon

161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

162. River God, Wilbur Smith

  1. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  2. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

  3. The World According To Garp, John Irving

  4. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore

  5. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson

  6. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye

  7. The Witches, Roald Dahl

  8. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White

171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

  1. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams

173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway

  1. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco

175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder

  1. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson

  2. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl

  3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach

180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

  1. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson

182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

  1. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay

184. Silas Marner, George Eliot

  1. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

  2. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith

  3. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine

  1. Heidi, Johanna Spyri

  2. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence

  3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

  4. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons

  5. The Truth, Terry Pratchett

194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells

195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans

  1. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

  2. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

  3. The Once And Future King, T. H. White

  4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

  5. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

  6. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan

203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan

204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan

205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan

206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan

207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan

208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan

209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan

210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan

  1. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto

  2. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

  3. The Married Man, Edmund White

  4. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin

  5. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault

  6. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice

  7. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell

  8. Equus, Peter Shaffer

  9. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten

  10. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

  11. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn

222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

  1. Anthem, Ayn Rand

  2. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

  3. Tartuffe, Moliere

  4. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

  5. The Crucible, Arthur Miller

  6. The Trial, Franz Kafka

229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles

  1. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther

  2. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen

  3. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen

  4. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

  5. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

  6. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read

  7. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono

  8. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde

  9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  10. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson

  11. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny

  12. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

  13. Summerland, Michael Chabon

  14. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

  15. Candide, Voltaire

246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl

247. Ringworld, Larry Niven

  1. The King Must Die, Mary Renault

  2. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

  3. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

  4. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

  1. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson

  2. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith

  3. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony

  4. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum

  5. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

  6. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde

  7. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde

  8. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel

  9. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver

  10. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris

  11. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

  12. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

  13. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock

  14. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland

  15. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien

  16. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

  17. The Cay, Theodore Taylor

  18. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg

  19. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester

  20. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

  21. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan

  22. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan

  23. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child

  24. Wicked, Gregory Maguire

  25. American Gods, Neil Gaiman

  26. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry

  27. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum

  28. Haunted, Judith St. George

  29. Singularity, William Sleator

  30. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

  31. Different Seasons, Stephen King

  32. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

  33. About a Boy, Nick Hornby

  34. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning

  35. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns

  36. Illusions, Richard Bach

  37. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey

  38. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey

  39. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey

  40. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav

  41. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker

297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

  1. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love

  2. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.

  3. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.

  4. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.

302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

  1. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland

  2. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille

  3. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust

  4. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh

  5. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco

  6. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

  7. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

  8. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz

311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

  1. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk

313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu

  1. The Giver, Lois Lowry

315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin

  1. Xenogenesis, Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)

  2. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold

  3. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold

  4. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)- in Latin, even

  5. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill

  6. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)

  7. Beowulf, Anonymous

  8. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell

  9. Deerskin, Robin McKinley

325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey

  1. Passage, Connie Willis

327. Otherland, Tad Williams

  1. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay

  2. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

  3. Beloved, Toni Morrison

  4. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore

  5. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin

  6. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume

  7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

  8. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev

  9. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie

  10. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson

  11. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

  12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

  1. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg

  2. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy

  3. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

  4. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

  5. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo

  6. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer

  7. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck

  8. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

  9. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston

  10. Time for bed by David Baddiel

  11. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  12. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre

  13. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  14. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

  15. Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

  16. Shackle and Sword by Alanna Morland

  17. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle

  18. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle

  19. The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L’Engle

  20. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg

362. Prey by Michael Crichton

363. Timeline By Michael Crichton

  1. Summon The Keeper by Tanya Huff

  2. Naked In Death by J.D. Robb

  3. Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold

  4. The Firebrand, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  5. Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn

  6. Grail Prince, Nancy McKenzie

  7. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

  8. Waiting for the Galactic Bus, by Parke Godwin

372. The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

  1. Death of a Nightingale, PD James

  2. Rabbit, Run, John Updike

375. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

376. The Blandings Omnibus, P.G.Wodehouse

377. The Agony and The Ecstasy, Irving Stone

378. Faith of the fallen, Terry Goodkind

379. Foundation, Isaac Asimov

380. Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds

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