Reading List

Okay, Okay, I stole this from Jess. At least it prompted me to go buy a new book!

Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, place an asterisk* after the ones on your book shelf, and place (parentheses) around the ones you've never even heard of.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown* << the aforementioned new book
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams**** all FIVE books plus the extra “short story!
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger)
(His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman)
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* (started it . . . )
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 (does watching the movie count?)
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)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut*
(The Secret History - Donna Tartt)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
(Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides)
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(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


Plus Jess’s add-ons:
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
(Mrs. Mike - Benedict & Nancy Freedman)
(My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult)
The Illiad - Homer
(The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien)
The Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing - Melissa Banks
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
(Age of Iron - JM Coetzee)
(Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre)

And now, some from my own list (consider them bold & with a *):
Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
Contact – Carl Sagan
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
Marley & Me – John Grogan
Swim Naked, Defy Gravity & 99 Other Essential Things To Accomplish Before Turning 30 - Colleen Rush
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places – David Quammen