muninnhuginn | Those Books

Well since we complained about the whole thing, we perhaps ought to look at the results. List copied from yonmei, acknowledging her entirely justified correction of the presentation and placement of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and continuing the pedantry by pointing out that Catch-22 has a hyphen in it!

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho--keep seeing this in the squelchy mysticky be your own seer/witch/demon section of Borders; have failed to pick it up
*Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll--hated it as a kid, love it now; prefer(red) the Looking Glass; worship Jabberwocky
*Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy--have signally failed to read much Russian literature, the excuse being that I'd want to learn Russian first
*Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer--looking forward to reading this one with LL
The BFG, Roald Dahl--will do this one with LL
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewel--was never a horsey child
Bleak House, Charles Dickens--loathe 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--almost as important to me as, say, Wilfred Owen's poems
*The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger--read it at 17, but found it disappointing
*Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl--always annoyed me
*A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens--ugh
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
*Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
*The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett--in one sitting, followed by whatever the next one is, then only Equal Rites after that; I'm not really a fan
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson--will catch up on these when LL is older no doubt
*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--ugh
*The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald--a real favourite
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--of the new books I've read recently this is one of the most intriguing; eagerly awaiting the movie
*I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
*Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronté--prefer Villette and Shirley
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 Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
*Magician, Raymond E Feist
*The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl--saving this until Looby Loo is bigger, tho' she has watched the movie (and, no, this is not the reason LL is called what she's called--we don't even spell it this way!--nor is it the Belloc poem)
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
*Middlemarch, George Eliot--another favourite
*Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie--still think Shame is funnier and The Satanic Verses far better, tho' my personal favourite is Grimus
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
*Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell--I've had a crush on O'Brien since I first read it (aged 11)
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
*On The Road, Jack Kerouac--read it at 17 and found it far more of an influence than Catcher in the Rye which I read at about the same time; Gatsby really grabbed me tho'
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
*Persuasion, Jane Austen--my favourite 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 Philanthropists, 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--and all the Lake District based ones (knowing the locations is fun), plus We Didn't Mean to go to Sea, but not the ones on the Broads (flat and boring)
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--read for pleasure first, studied after, have a highly ~~annotated~~scribbled on copy
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
*Watership Down, Richard Adams--prefer Shardik (read both when I was 8, loved the bit in Shardik where the cage with the bear in it ran down a slope and crushed lots of warriors)
*The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame--loathed it, especially Toad and Ratty and Badger (also found it hard to follow at the beginning: it was years after I first read it that I noticed there were pages missing in the copy we had)
*Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne--hated as a kid, hate it now
*The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins--I love Collins' novels
*Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte--never really grabbed me

Encouraging children to vote has had its effects: the Jacqueline Wilsons might otherwise not have made it. There's a satisfyingly large amount of sf & f included. Ulysses rather than Portrait of the Artist... is impressive.