Oh, yes they are! Here’s another that has been in draft for a while (I don’t think I was tagged for this one, I just grabbed it off someone’s blog a few months ago (months!)). The list is pretty random, and since I’ve read and own most of them, I’ve included some notes and links to reviews where appropriate. Meme ad libbing! Doesn’t that just fly in the face of all the meme rules? I’m such a blog rebel.
How it works: bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, and underline the ones on your book shelf.
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (review)
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (read this as a teenager, didn’t get the hype; read it again in my 20s and fell in love)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (also first read as a teenager, one of my all-time favourites)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (you already know how I feel about this one; review)
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (I’ve pulled out this series every year during the winter break, swearing that I will read them all; not sure why it hasn’t happened yet but I do look upon these three books longingly every time I walk by my bookshelves. One of these days I’ll have some time to read these indulgently, all in one go, cover to cover.)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel (review)
- Animal Farm: A Fairy Story – George Orwell
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien(yes, it’s on the shelves, it belongs to the mister. I have no desire to read it, although I feel like I probably should.)- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (review)
- 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 García Márquez
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (hated it!)
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (review)
- Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown(also one of the mister’s)- Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt (why do I feel like I should know this book?)
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (you’ve heard the story on this one too)
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (review)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell- The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman- Atonement – Ian McEwan (review)
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(one of the mister’s favourites. He’s tried to force it upon me many times, I’ve managed to resist).