100 books I haven't read....... (624 hits)
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Submitted by <danzxc13.at.cs.com> (View user info) at 2005-03-22 16:45:19 EST
Maybe I should learn how to read........................
My Moma always said it makes yoo more edumacated!
1. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
2. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown (Yes, better than the Da Vinci Code)
3. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
4. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
5. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Forde (part of a series- all good)
6. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
7. Middlemarch, George Elliott
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
11. Money, Martin Amis
12. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
13. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
14. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
15. Heroes and Villians, Angela Carter
16. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling (like them all)
17 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, Mark Haddon (cool: about an autistic boy.
18. A Heartbreaking Work of Outstanding Genius, Dave Eggers
19. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
20. The Hobbit, JR Tolkein (Like it better than LOTR)
21. Catcher In the Rye, J.D. Salinger
22. Dracula, Bram Stoker
23. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
24. It, Stephen King
25. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
26. Tess D`Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fieldning
28. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
29. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
30. Artemis Foul, Eoin Colfer
31. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
32. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
33. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
34. Persuasion, Jane Austen (not pride and prejudice. it is stupid)
35. I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
36. Jennifer Government, Max Barry (it's ok)
37. No Logo, Naomi Klein
38. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
39. Spies, Michael Frayn
40. The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
41. The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
42. The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
43. Number9dream, David Mitchell
44. Oxygen, Andrew Miller
45. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
46. The Shadow in the North, Philip Pullman
47. Border Crossing, Pat Barker
48. Dead Famous, Ben Elton
49. Filth, Irvine Welsh
50. Atonement, Ian McEwan
51. The Plato Papers, Peter Ackroyd
52. Orlando, Virginia Woolfe (I love this book)
53. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
54. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
55. Paddy Clarke, Ha-Ha-Ha, Roddy Doyle
56. Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt
57. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
58. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
59. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
60. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
61. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
62. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
63. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
64. The Secret diary of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend
65. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
66. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
67. The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart
68. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
69. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
70. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
71. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
72. The Beach, Alex Garland
73. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
74. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
75. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
76. The Time Machine H.G. Wells
77. Little Women, Louisa May Alcot
78. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
79. Overtaken, Alexi Sayle
80. Case History, Kate Atkinson
81. Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen
82. Boiling a Frog, Cristopher Brookmyre
83. The Map that Changed the World, Simon Winchester
84. the girl with a pearl earring, Tracy Chevalier
85. Twelve, Nick McDonald
86. Pompeii, Robert Harris
87. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
88. A Winters Tale, William Shakespeare
89. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tenessee Williams
90. The Guiness book of Records (the old ones are the best, because they have things like most beer drunk and other stuff that can kill you)
91. Hedda Gabbler, Ibsen
92. Mr Nice, Howard Marks
93. Slow, Carl Honore
94. The Timewaster Letters, Robin Cooper
95. Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges,
Guy Browning
96. Millennium People, J.G. Ballard
97. Stupid White Men, Michael Moore (although I disagree with a lot of it)
98. Hotel World, Ali Smith
99. Thinks...,David Lodge
100. Jamie's Dinners, Jamie Oliver (yes a cookbook haha)
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Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2005-03-22 17:56:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:51:56 (#)
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Thanks Bob, I appreciate the love!
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I do what I can, there was no comics in the list so -2 for making me feel like a doche for not knowing any of the books. Actually, thats not true, I only read like the first 3 titles and decided the post wasnt for me
Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:57:54 EST (#)
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But I just joined the book club...
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:56:48 EST (#)
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I'm bored at looking at that list of books- don't read any of them ok.
Submitted by Dannie (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:56:00 EST (#)
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Join the bookclub!
...and get free "100 Places No One's Ever Been".
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:55:30 EST (#)
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Cool.
I haven't read 97 of those either.
Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:54:45 EST (#)
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Ok, I can see where you might get some similarities between the two.
Thanks for the +1
Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:54:02 EST (#)
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What are you talking about Cindy, I just made that myself!
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:52:28 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/62305
way to steal my list!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:51:57 EST (#)
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Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:51:56 EST (#)
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Thanks Bob, I appreciate the love!
Submitted by Danzxc (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:50:51 EST (#)
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Thanks, I try!
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:47:48 EST (#)
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This is the equivelant of giving the complete works of Mozart to a room full of shit-flinging monkeys.
+1 for bravery
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2005-03-22 16:47:18 EST (#)
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