Friday, October 13, 2006

That 'Ol Big List O' Books

As usual, Keith DeCandido is the earliest person in the alphabet I noticed doing this, so I picked it up from him.

The rules: books you've read are in bold, books you intend to read are in italics, and add three books at the end. (I foresee this list swiftly consuming all of the computing resources of the world...)

I've added a new twist: books you wouldn't be caught dead with are in strikethrough.

  • 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 (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel (half-credit; I read about 100 pages and gave up in boredom)
  • Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell (at least three times I can recall)
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (at least twice)
  • 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 (at least twice)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
  • Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
  • Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson
  • Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  • The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  • A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (but so long ago I'm not sure it still counts)
  • American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  • Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
  • Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  • 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 Bronte (three times! three goddamn times!)
  • 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
  • The Unberable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  • Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
  • The Nature of Blood - Caryl Phillips
  • Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - Ed. David Sedaris
  • Yarn Harlot - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
  • Spook - Mary Roach
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanne Clarke
  • Marley and Me - John Grogan
  • Gone to the Dogs - Emily Carmichael
  • Book the 11th: The Grim Grotto: The Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
  • State of Fear - Michael Crichton
  • The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
  • Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
  • The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
  • The Snow Fox - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  • Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  • Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
  • Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
  • The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie
  • The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
  • Sabine's Notebook - Nick Bantock
  • Strangers in the Night - Linda Howard
  • Night Tales (v.1) - Nora Roberts
  • Reunion - Nora Roberts
  • White Lies - Linda Howard
  • Fever Season (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Divine Rite (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Angel With a Sword (Merovingen Nights) - CJ Cherryh
  • Mount Dragon - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  • Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
  • Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint
  • Settling Accounts: Return Engagement - Harry Turtledove
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  • Cell - Stephen King
  • Staying Dead - Laura Anne Gilman
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  • Star Trek: S.C.E. #66: Many Splendors - Keith R. A. DeCandido
  • The Crucible, Book Three: The Crippled Angel - Sara Douglass
  • Star Trek: Mere Anarchy, Book One: Things Fall Apart - Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore Dragonlance Chronicles, Book One: Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
  • Star Trek: Mere Anarchy, Book Two: The Centre Cannot Hold - Mike W. Barr
  • Duty First: A year in the Life of West Point and the Making of American Leaders - Ed Ruggo
  • Hit Parade - Lawrence Block
  • Jpod - Douglas Coupland
  • Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
  • The Neon Wilderness - Nelson Algren
  • The Bride Wore Black - Cornell Woolrich
  • Rain in the Doorway - Thorne Smith
  • City of Glass (graphic novel) - Paul Auster with Paul Karasik & David Mazzaucchelli
  • Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero - Karen Traviss
  • The Starslip Crisis Technical Manual - Kristofer Straub
  • Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reinventing Paul- John Gager
  • The Ghost Stories of M.R. James- selected by Michael Cox
  • La vita nuova- Dante
  • Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows- David R. George III
  • Dancing After Hours- Andre Dubus
  • Gun, with Occasional Music- Jonathan Lethem
  • Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
  • Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
  • Dancing on the Edge of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
  • The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
  • Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
I see this list has run through some not-overly-discriminating readers before it reached me...

1 comment:

Andrew Wheeler said...

ray: Someone added them to the list -- that seems to be the only common factor. I have no idea how long the original list was (though I suspect it ended before the romance clump and the STar Trek books).

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