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[quidditchgrrl]

Books I've read are in bold.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4. Middlemarch - George Eliot
5. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
8. Emma - Jane Austen
9. Unless - Carol Shields
10. To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
11. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
12. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
14. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
15. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
16. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
17. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
18. Silas Marner - George Eliot
19. Possession - AS Byatt
20. The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
21. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
22. The Mill On The Floss - George Eliot
23. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
24. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
25. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
26. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
27. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proux
28. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
29. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
30. I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
31. Family Bites - Lisa Williams
32. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
33. The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
34. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
35. The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
36. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
37. The Girl With The Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
38. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
39. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
40. Clan Of The Cave Bear - Jean Auel
41. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
42. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
43. Five Quarters Of The Orange - Joanne Harris
44. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
45. Beloved - Toni Morrison
46. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
47. Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner
48. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
49. Regeneration - Pat Barker
50. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Boy, fewer than I thought, which makes me feel like a loser for some reason. Most of these are more contemporary - for most of the 90s I was in school and not really reading much in the way of contemporary fiction. *scribbles in notebook*

Comments

[sunshyndaisies.livejournal.com]

I feel like such a schmuck... I've read maybe 10 of these at most!

[schuywriter.livejournal.com]

You've read more of these than I have. I did read I Capture The Castle, which is being made into a film now. Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit was made into a film which I saw a long time ago but I never read the book. I read Clan of the Cave Bear and 2 of its sequels. Jane Eyre is one of my faves:)

Where's the list from?

[fraulein.livejournal.com]

Hey - Thanks for the great list! I've copied it- and I'm amazed at how many of these I haven't read. Looks like a good place to start expanding my reading for the summer!

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[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think sometimes (especially with Austen) if you've read one you've read them all...