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Listening: Ani
Enjoying:
we used to hold hands down
those unfamiliar streets
you used to take me diving
into the watery blue deep
but now you're trying to find every tiny treasure
every shiny penny of pleasure
satisfy every selfish purpose
before you swim back up to the surface
--Come Away
--Ani di Franco
I saw someone's list of 100 Top Movies and in going through I realized I'd rather curl up with a good book. Being in a mood to waste time at work I decided to track down a list of 100 great books.
The BBC polled a bunch of people and the subsequent list can be found at The Guardian. This is NOT that great of a list, eventhough it has some truly great books on it. Children's classics are given a lot of weight as noted by the *high* presence of one JK Rowling. But do note that the list isn't numbered (so I'm going on faith that there ARE 100 entries) so one must assume the books aren't ranked.
I'll give a cookie to anyone else who can find me other lists of top books (or creates one).
(I italicized the book titles. Bolds are ones I haven't 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' Diary Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Berničres
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (I think I've read this all the way through, it's tough to say because I've taken in SO many versions of it I can't recall the differences any more.)
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 & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr 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 & the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
(AW c'mon!!! There's two trilogies on this list and they only get one entry EACH! What gives???)
His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
Holes Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontė
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
Nightwatch 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 Süskind
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meaney 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 Rosamund 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 (I don't think I've read this, though I know I've read some Pooh stories, but in this day and age little kids aren't expected to read this...*rolls eyes*)
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontė
Goodness that's a lot of books I gotta go read. Most of the ones I did read were assigned in English classes. And they left out a lot of books that I think are indespensible. Maybe I should make my own list...
Enjoying:
we used to hold hands down
those unfamiliar streets
you used to take me diving
into the watery blue deep
but now you're trying to find every tiny treasure
every shiny penny of pleasure
satisfy every selfish purpose
before you swim back up to the surface
--Come Away
--Ani di Franco
I saw someone's list of 100 Top Movies and in going through I realized I'd rather curl up with a good book. Being in a mood to waste time at work I decided to track down a list of 100 great books.
The BBC polled a bunch of people and the subsequent list can be found at The Guardian. This is NOT that great of a list, eventhough it has some truly great books on it. Children's classics are given a lot of weight as noted by the *high* presence of one JK Rowling. But do note that the list isn't numbered (so I'm going on faith that there ARE 100 entries) so one must assume the books aren't ranked.
I'll give a cookie to anyone else who can find me other lists of top books (or creates one).
(I italicized the book titles. Bolds are ones I haven't 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' Diary Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Berničres
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (I think I've read this all the way through, it's tough to say because I've taken in SO many versions of it I can't recall the differences any more.)
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 & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr 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 & the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
(AW c'mon!!! There's two trilogies on this list and they only get one entry EACH! What gives???)
His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
Holes Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontė
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
Nightwatch 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 Süskind
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meaney 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 Rosamund 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 (I don't think I've read this, though I know I've read some Pooh stories, but in this day and age little kids aren't expected to read this...*rolls eyes*)
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontė
Goodness that's a lot of books I gotta go read. Most of the ones I did read were assigned in English classes. And they left out a lot of books that I think are indespensible. Maybe I should make my own list...
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