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I've been thinking about books lately... I don't do nearly enough reading. And that which I do is rereading my favorite things over and over again. Came across a listing in a friend's LJ the other day which made me think and made me pull out my "need to read" list. Bold entries are ones I've read...

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
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
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel- got it for Christmas, haven't finished it yet
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
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- is top on my list
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
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, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien

need to finish

Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
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
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce-have only read a bit of in Irish Lit class
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Not too bad, really... 36/100... of course, I've seen a lot of these in movie form, but that doesn't count *G*

I ran across this one and thought it was interesting since I'm in grad school now. It's Recommended Readings for College Bound Students:

1984 by George Orwell
American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
Chosen by Chaim Potok
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak -excellent movie
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man…by Paul Zindel
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Exodus by Leon Uris
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway -actually, started but never finished
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
Fried Green Tomatoes at the… by Fannie Flagg
Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur C. Doyle
Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by maya Angelou
Invisible Man by H. G. Wells -read it in 3 days without sleeping for a minute... don't really remember it but managed to write 12 3page papers on it at the time
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Lawrence/Lee
Native Son by Richard Wright
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
Odyssey by Homer
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Picwich Papers by Charles Dickens
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
QB Vii by Leon Uris
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Rover Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Roots by alex Haley
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Stranger by Albert Camus
Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Thread That Runs So True
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
War and Peace by Leo Tolstory
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Winds of War by Herman Wouk

Now THAT is sad... *hangs head in shame* 20/74(assuming I don't count as badly as I don't read)

Another College-bound reading list that I've been referred to. It's based off some ALA lists:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm George Orwell
Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island) Charles B. Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Complete Tales and Poems Edgar Allen Poe
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel del Saavedra Cervantes
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Fixer Bernard Malamud
Giants in the Earth Ole E. Rolvaag
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Mansions W.H. Hudson
How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn
Human Comedy William Saroyan
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien