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[quidditchgrrl]

Bold = read it
Italics = reading it/plan to read

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 (which didn't come across as either v. witty or v. funny compared to the movie)
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, 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 Bronte
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
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 Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
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 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
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
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 Bronte

If anyone wants to recommend any of the titles that I don't intend to read (I rarely put my faith in literature in these lists - Memoirs of a Geisha? Bleh), please let me know why it's so great.

Comments

[zyll.livejournal.com]

I just liked Memoirs of a Geisha. It was a great story and I felt like it transported me into that other world. I was just fascinated by the whole thing, that's all.

A Prayer for Owen Meany is another wonderful and touching book. It's about faith and friendship and trust and an extraordinary human being. I found it a little slow at times, but I'd still recommend it.

And I haven't read Kane and Abel, but I've read other Jeffrey Archer books and I enjoyed them all. I must put Kane and Abel on my list. I just finished a Jeffrey Archer short story collection called To Make a Long Story Short that was great. Plus since it's stories, you can read it in bits.

I'm also going to give a blanket endorsement to any and all books by L.M. Montgomery. So I'd read all of them, not just Anne of Green Gables. You have to be interested in seeing what happens to Anne to really care, but I loved them all.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, Geisha just didn't do it for me like, say, The Bonesetter's Daughter. I must have been missing something when I began the story - just couldn't get into it.

I'll probably make an attempt to get most of these things off the list (seeing as most of them make it onto nearly every must-read listing). Certainly will hit the children's books first! :)

[greenamber.livejournal.com]

Try Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Absolutely amazing. It takes you back completely and totally to the years of the 1st World War. However... well, go to my journal to see what I wrote about it. Its at the bottom of the BBC Book entry.

[catsperspective.livejournal.com]

I too read "Memoirs Of A Geisha" ehh, it was okay. I agree that Tan certainly tells a better story though.

Shell Seekers was actually pretty good. I became a huge Rosamunde Pilcher after reading this book. Her books do not require much thought, there are really no bad guys verses good guys, just plain enjoyment. When reading one of her books I like to curl up with a hot cup of tea and forget about life's troubles for a while. (I also start speaking with a british accent, but thats another story. LOL)

[water-witch.livejournal.com]

Aargh don't read The Thorn Birds it is total and unmitigated C***. I loved Pillars of the Earth although I don't generally read Ken Follet. It is hisotrical but for some reason was absolutely compelling. Only read The Godfather for the bit about the hugely endowed man!

[delfeus.livejournal.com]

I was told you are a mod for a Remus/Hermione group - care to point the way? I'm looking for stories with that pairing... recs are welcome, too! :D

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[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Er, well, no. I am a moderator for the Hogwarts Boudoir, which caters to NC-17 het featuring Snape, Black, Lupin and Bill Weasley. There you can find some Remus/Hermione fanfiction.

Hope that helps - Remus/Hermione is certainly underrepresented in the fandom.

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[delfeus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! -> joins

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[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now all the cool people belong to the Boudoir! *grin* Beware our Centaur...he likes to lure the newbies into the Forbidden Forest under the pretense of gazing at the stars...

*plugs Bane*

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[delfeus.livejournal.com]

Haha, indeed! I'm the coolest... :D

Thanks for the warning... although there might be... intersting... creatures in the Forbidden Forest.