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Post by Marv on Jun 7, 2018 8:27:10 GMT
17 out of 100...which is more than I expected to have read.
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Post by Morgana on Jun 7, 2018 11:13:31 GMT
25, though with the Narnia and HP series, it will come to more. I think it's an awful list. |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 7, 2018 12:46:17 GMT
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Post by Marv on Jun 7, 2018 19:56:13 GMT
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Post by louise on Jun 8, 2018 18:50:31 GMT
22, or 22 and a half if getting halfway through Lord of the Rings counts. it's an odd list. funny that Tom Sawyer is on it, but not Huckleberry Finn. It's mostly classics, and I wonder how loved some of them are really.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jun 8, 2018 19:51:51 GMT
I'll preface my comment by explaining my tastes and interests. The majority of my reading--probably the vast majority, is nonfiction. For fiction, I strongly prefer genre (SciFi, horror, fantasy, etc.) and kid's fiction. I'm not a fan of realist fiction. I'm not a fan of soap opera-like plots, etc.
That said, I'll divide these into categories:
One of my favorite books:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Stand - Stephen King
Like it:
1984 - George Orwell
Alex Cross Mysteries - James Patterson
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Lord of the Rings series - J.R.R. Tolkien
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Watchers - Dean Koontz
Not really my kind of book, but surprisingly I liked it:
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery (I also love the Canadian miniseries)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (I like Steinbeck in general)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (as with Steinbeck, I like Hemingway in general)
In general I'm a big fan of pre-20th century Anglo-American literature, so I like all of these a lot (although I still prefer pre-20th century genre fiction):
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Read at least parts of a long time ago, but I don't recall them very well, so it's hard to say--especially to say what I'd think of them now:
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumbass, er Dumas
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Haven't read but might be interested in:
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (I wouldn't normally expect to be interested in him, but Irving is quirky and humorous enough that other books of his that I've read I've liked okay)
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Twilight Saga series - Stephanie Meyer
Either never heard of or I'm not familiar enough with it to say:
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Another Country - James Baldwin
Bless Me Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Dona Barbara - Romulo Gallegos
Ghost - Jason Reynolds
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Hatchet series - Gary Paulsen
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Left Behind series - Tim LaHaye/Jerry B. Jenkins
Looking for Alaska - John Green
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Martian - Andy Weir
Mind Invaders - Dave Hunt
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Shack - William P. Young
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City series - Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
This Present Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Haven't read, know enough about to know I probably wouldn't be interested in:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Read excerpts for various reasons, didn't like:
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Read the whole thing, didn't like:
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Read enough to know that I absolutely hated it:
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
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Post by Marv on Jun 8, 2018 20:59:00 GMT
22, or 22 and a half if getting halfway through Lord of the Rings counts. it's an odd list. funny that Tom Sawyer is on it, but not Huckleberry Finn. It's mostly classics, and I wonder how loved some of them are really. I counted the series I started but haven’t finished...since it seemed to have one entry for an entire series. |
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Post by novastar6 on Jun 9, 2018 5:57:28 GMT
12, a lot of others that I started but never finished, and plenty more on my 'to-read' list.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 9, 2018 14:04:52 GMT
22, or 22 and a half if getting halfway through Lord of the Rings counts. it's an odd list. funny that Tom Sawyer is on it, but not Huckleberry Finn. It's mostly classics, and I wonder how loved some of them are really. Huckleberry Finn has gotten the backs up of too many of the censorship types. Even though Twain was anti-slavery, and Jim is possibly the most positive character in the book, the mere fact of its' containing the N-word has made the book too radioactive to be included on many of these types of lists today. No right-thinking contemporary American is supposed to read it or acknowledge its existence--a real shame, as it's definitely the better book than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on many levels, the truly inspired satirising of many aspects of 19th century American Southern attitudes and culture among the reasons why. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 19, 2018 6:13:51 GMT
13, if I include Godfather and Da Vinci Code which I technically didn't finish. The others:
1984
The Great Gatsby
The Stand
The Outsiders
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Frankenstein
Jurassic Park
Heart of Darkness
Catcher in the Rye
And Then There Were None
And then I can't remember if I read A Separate Peace, or just watched the movie. Then I probably read Call of the Wild in school but can't remember. Everything Jack London blurs together.
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