thanks, auntie
5/30 November 07, 2007

Another book meme, sent to me offline by my "non-blogging but pretty savvy for her age" aunt (who needs to stop reading my diary!)

This sort of thing is vexing to me, I have to confess. I worry that such actions are vague, and don't tell the whole story. For instance, a book's residence on your bookshelf is no guarantee that it was read, and is treasured. That's why you see books both underlined AND bolded on my list.

And please keep in mind, the striking out of the ones I won't read is no strong stand against anything. Some, like Hemingway and C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, are authors I tried, and didn't care for. With others, it could be something as mundane as a genre that holds no interest for me.

Some that are bolded I read, and didn't like at all, but reading it was required of me (Orwell, I'm looking at you!) for a class.

And of course, to somebody like me, the omissions on this list are troubling as well. Since I don't really know the genesis of this list, I can't tell you why any of these books were included, or why other boooks are not.

Anyway; for what it is worth--I don't tag. But if you somehow wander in here and read this, and want to consider yourself tagged please feel quite free to do so.

Bold the ones you've read, italicise the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, and underline the ones on your book shelf!

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
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 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 three copies, at least!
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez
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 Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bront�
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
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert