Neat Book List

I've many books in my personal library I haven't read yet and hope to read this summer. There are also books in my parents' extensive library which I wish to read this summer. Then there are the books none of us own which I'll have to borrow from the library to read this summer. Yet, for some reason, I'm always on the look-out for lists of books I should read. So, when I saw the list below on "Oh, Blog, Where Art Thou?" I thought, Must follow this list this summer! Not that I will, most likely, but I thought I should put it down here and mark off, like the exceptionally well-read instigator of this checking off of lists of books and Mlle. Dorkart do, in bold what I've read already.

The Book Meme

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel *
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett *
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson *
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett *
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist *
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden *
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett *
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett *
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot *
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson *
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough *
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson *
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1/2-way done)
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Hm. If I counted correctly, that's 47 books read (one listed is a trilogy). Much better than I would have thought, considering. Perfume is exceptionally good, by the way. It was assigned in an Ethics course I couldn't get into at NYU. It was one of those books I could not put down even though my eyes were crossing I was so tired. I just heard Paulo Coelho being interviewed on NPR this past weekend, so I was planning on reading his book before I'd seen this list. Gone With The Wind sucked ass, as does the movie. Why? Because Scarlett is the most unlikable character I've ever read about in any piece of fiction. I kept hoping she'd died of syphillus, as she so very much deserved to do, but she didn't. She didn't even get beaten with a stick, as I so very much hoped she would. No, she lived to fight another day. Ugh.

Anyway, some of those I've read I liked, some I didn't, most which I haven't I'm not interested in (I don't like Pratchett and I get bored with Dickens very quickly). We'll see how I do, especially since a couple of these are on Mom's shelves. I never did read Anne of Green Gables, which my mother gave me for Christmas when I was in junior high or so. I didn't think it could be as good as the Canadian production they showed on PBS all those years ago. My eldest sister read Memoirs Of A Geisha and said it sucked badly, so I really don't think that one will be checked off any time soon.

*not bloody likely, friend!