pemakhador ([info]pemakhador) wrote,
@ 2006-11-09 22:05:00
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Book List
Okay, Sarah.  Here is my list.  I look forward to checking out some of the books I haven't read.
Any idea why this book list is considered representative of being well read?
I see a lot of books assigned in high school and some best sellers.  (A lot of favorites!)
Also, what books would you add to it?


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 [on my list of books to read, has come highly recommended]
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 [will read it eventually]
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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
(One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini)
Slaughterhouse 5
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniu
(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 Bronte
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

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[info]dawa_lhamo_9
2006-11-10 04:48 pm UTC (link)
What would I add? Hmmm... some more classics. Homer's Illiad and maybe the Odessey too. I'd put the Bible on there. I'd put the Constitution and maybe something by Thomas Paine... (at least for an American list)... I'd put some philosophical works on there, too, Plato, Aristotle, etc. And "groundbreaking" works like Darwin's The Origin of Species... Works like that, I consider important... And for many of us, we've only read *of* these works, commentary and secondary sources (or heard of them on TV and in school), rather than having read the originals ourselves. And actually, I've read none of them completely, except the Constitution. I might count the Odessey, but it was a textbook version, rather than a seperate book.

(And my list would include things like the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, as well.)

As for the popular culture selections, I'd probably add in a few more sci-fi, like Battlefield Earth, Stranger in a Strange Land... And some oldies like War of the Worlds, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Time Machine, etc...

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