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[sarahmichelef]

Here are the current top 46 (where on earth did the last 4 go?) books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Pass it on:

My twist - I'm italicizing the ones I'd like to read, because I might read anything!
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling -- Well, duh.
9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -- I tried once when I was probably 14... and thought "these people are so STUPID!" and quit reading it. Then, in college, I tried again, and thought with glee, "these people are so STUPID!" It's all about understanding the social satire...
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -- and I have no desire to see the movie.
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -- I know I've heard about this, but I can't remember what I've heard!
21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Neuromancer - William Gibson -- I've tried several times; got halfway through it once, but I just can't bring myself to finish it!
26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson -- and I'm pretty sure that amuntari still has my copy of it, wayward child that she is.
27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess -- I tried once in high school or early college, and just couldn't do it. I need to try again, though.
29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman -- I'm not sure... if I have read it, it didn't make that big an impression on me, which makes me think I haven't read it.
32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card -- I've never been tempted to read Card. Not sure why.
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan
42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath -- I went on a HUGE Plath kick in high school. And in college I directed a staged reading of "Three Women".
46. Dune - Frank Herbert -- never had any desire to read Herbert, either. Does this make me a bad geek?

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[amuntari.livejournal.com]

26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson -- and I'm pretty sure that amuntari still has my copy of it, wayward child that she is.

Really? Goodness, I'm sorry, I didn't realize... I'm going home in a couple of weeks and I'll check my bookshelves for it... : )

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[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

it's all good. ;^)