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    WHAT HAVE YOU READ?

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    Post by Pegasus Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:47 am

    What Have You Read?


    The BBC believes that most
    people will have only read 6 of these 100 books.
    How does your reading habit stack up?

    1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
    2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    4. Harry Potter series –
    5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
    6. The Bible -
    7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    10. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
    11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    12 .Tess of the D’Urbervilles -Thomas Hardy
    13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
    15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
    18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
    21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams
    26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    34. Emma - Jane Austen -
    35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
    36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
    41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -
    42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
    51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    52. Dune - Frank Herbert
    53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    54. Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen
    55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
    60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
    73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    75. Ulysses - James Joyce
    76. The Inferno - Dante
    77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78. Germinal - Emile Zola -
    79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    80. Possession - AS Byatt
    81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
    88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven
    89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
    95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



    Below are books that I think should be added to the list:

    Here are my ten (plus one extra):

    The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova
    Tuesdays With Morrie- Mitch Albom
    The Deep End of the Ocean- Jacquelyn Mitchard
    White Oleander-Janet Fitch
    Dr. Zhivago- Boris Pasternak
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith
    The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux
    Lost Horizon- James Hilton
    Hans Brinker- Mary Mapes Dodge
    Magnificent Obsession- Lloyd C Douglas
    The Mermaid Chair- Sue Monk Kidd

    Now, add your ten,...and lets see how big of a quality list we can build, and
    send to the BBC and elsewhere.


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    Post by The Phoenix Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:54 am

    Wow...I better pick up the pace with my reading, though varied....here are a few of my favorites:

    Edgar Rice Burroughs--the complete Tarzan series
    Cyrano De Bergerac--Edmond Rostand
    Selected Prose of T.S. Elliot
    The Rainbow--D.H. Lawrence
    Lady Chatterly's Lover---D.H.Lawrence
    Psychoanalysis and The Unconscious---D.H.Lawrence
    Slapstick---Kurt Vonnegut
    Please Understand Me 2--David Keirsey
    Lost Teachings on Keys To Spiritual Progress---Elizabeth Clare Prophet
    Seven Summits--Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway

    A few more of my personal favorites :

    Henry Miller--any
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe---any
    William Shakespeare--any
    August Strindberg--Inferno/Tales from an Occult diary
    Arthur Rimbaud---Season in Hell
    Henry Thoreau---Walden
    Rudyard Kipling--any
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Emily Dickinson
    Walt Whitman---Leaves of Grass
    Honore' de Balzac
    Robert Frost
    Anais Nin diaries
    The Iliad and The Odessy--Homer
    Ulysses--James Joyce
    Robert Jordan--Wheel of Time series
    ~~~Now something for the hedonist in you..but be warned very explicit..... WHAT HAVE YOU READ? Icon_tongue WHAT HAVE YOU READ? Icon_redface
    The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty series-- Ann Rice {Roquelaure} WHAT HAVE YOU READ? Fresse
    Laurel K. Hamilton --Anita Blake series WHAT HAVE YOU READ? Fresse

    ~Pegasus, I love the new signature....Great !
    "Tag...you're It !"


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    Post by The Phoenix Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:29 am

    Well one thing is for certain....we all may be a bunch of coconuts....but at least we are well read ! WHAT HAVE YOU READ? Icon_razz
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    Post by Pegasus Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:55 pm

    pegasus wrote:I love Robert Frost! And did I ever tell you that Kurt Vonnegut spoke at
    my College Graduation? He told us that the most memorable advice he ever got
    was to "never stick anything in your ear that was smaller than your elbow."
    LOL...He was great!

    Well I thought of a few more to add to the list. I've read all of the
    recommended oneson both posts except for The Invisible Man
    and Out of Africa. I did go through the original list and
    discovered that I have just about read half the list.
    So I guess you're right, Phoenix... we may be crazy
    but at least we are well read, duly educated looney tunes!...

    The Wizard of Oz- L.Frank Baum
    My Antonia - Willa Cather
    Any work by Guy De Maupassant
    Any work by Edgar Allen Poe
    A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
    Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
    Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    The Man Without A Country- Edward Everett Hale
    Tristan and Isolde (Isolt)- Sir Thomas Malory
    The Invisible Man - HG Wells
    The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
    Beowulf
    The Lost World- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
    Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
    Narcissus and Goldmund- Hermann Hesse
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    Post by Dark1 Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:13 pm

    I see quite a number of things listed that I have read.
    I'm also a fan of Kipling, Frost, and Poe. Seven Summits was truly inspirational, and the latest Wheel of Time book (The Gathering Storm) is now out (and really good).
    Pegasus, in your last post, there almost seems to be a theme at one point, reminiscent of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Perhaps that is coincidence. While the movie missed out on what was surely great potential, it did provoke me to read the original stories behind the characters. Having said that, I would add the Allan Quatermain stories by H. Rider Haggard.
    I would add:

    - The Aeneid – Virgil. Extra points if you have read it in Latin (I have)

    - The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer

    - Anything by John Donne

    - Frankenstein – Mary Shelly

    - The Coldfire trilogy – C.S. Friedman

    - The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown

    Extra points also to anyone who has read any of the books edited out/left out of the King James version of The Bible (there are easily dozens).
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    Post by Pegasus Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:03 pm

    I absolutely loved, "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown. Really made me think....Haven't read the others so I guess I still have a long way to go...
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