I’ve been meaning to do this…
October 12, 2007 | Deep Thoughts Friday
post the latest* quadrant? nope. Yeah. I know. I completely and utterly suck, Private Practice style. (*oops, from July. I supersuck.)
Reveal the winner of the latest What the J? contest? Um, probably Saturday. Look for it on Saturday.
What I DO mean is this cool book meme which the fabulously curly & cute Miss Zoot just posted. Totally stolen from Miss Zoot! But I don’t think she’d mind…
Here’s the deal:
Bold those you’ve read.
Italicize books you have started but couldn’t finish.
Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
Underline those on your To Be Read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner (on my nightstand!)
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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Because it’s Friday and I feel like sharing (sharing is caring, y’all), I’ll list out my favorite books of all time for you:
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany (If I ever meet Jon Irving, just pray you’re not there to witness the pant soiliage & manic freakout. My other Jon Irving faves include The World According to Garp, A Widow for One Year, and The Cider House Rules…and his sexy gray hair.)
2. The Pillars of the Earth (Buy. This. Book. Now.)
3. Jane Eyre (If I ever meet Charlotte Bronte, that will mean I’m either dead or seeing dead people. Neither are cool in my book.)
4. The Power of One (Boxing, apartheid, South Africa– not my usual fodder, but trust Mrs. Squirrel on this one).
5. The Other Boleyn Girl You would not believe how many historical fiction books I bought after devouring this amazing read…and honestly, none came close to this story (and its sequel). I’m not sure the film based on this book can do the book justice…just like I never saw the remade “Pride and Prejudice.” Well, that and no Colin Firth.
6. I Know This Much is True Heavy and amazing.
I’d love to hear your suggestions, as I’m always up for finding a new favorite author or book!
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October 12th, 2007 at 3:34 pm, Bethany Says:
Garp is one of my all time favorites!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm, Audrey Says:
I just posted my list of 5 Books Everyone Should Read Now and Forever Amen a couple of weeks ago. You and I seem to have similar tastes in books, so you may want to check it out: http://www.sangrialover.com/?p=622 The good news is you’ve already read at least one of them — only 4 to go!
October 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pm, Isabel Says:
I like Jon Irving. But haven’t become a huge fan like some people. Maybe I need to read more of his stuff.
(But for now I can’t seem to read anything NOT written by Maeve Binchy. I heart her.)
I didn’t know The Power of One was a book. I have loved that movie since I was a teenager. It’s one of the few DVD’s that I actually own. I also have loved the soundtrack forever.
Books I love??
I love The Drifters by James A. Michener and Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. They are both amazing. Really!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:18 pm, My Buddy Mimi Says:
I may have to do this mysel when I have a couple of minutes. I just finished The Other Boleyn Girl on Thursday. Definitely a good read.
October 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm, Eris Says:
Hey! I loved Pillars of the Earth too! No one has ever even heard of it! Just bold that whole list, save for most recent works, and you’ve got my reading really. Ever read Atlas Shrugged? I like that one tool
October 14th, 2007 at 9:41 pm, Anth Says:
Ooh, love it. I’m totally stealing this for my blog. Thanks for the book suggestions. I too am always looking for good books to read. My friend and I are in the process of starting a book club and are having a devil of a time finding anyone who wants to read actual literature! It is a TRAVESTY!
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