Monday, March 19, 2007

The Definitive Reading List

Before deadline, I have completed the list. Thank you to all who contributed either by commenting on the original post, or by emailing/calling me to discuss.

LISTED BY TITLE
  1. The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
  2. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
  3. River God - Wilbur Smith
  4. A Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R R Martin
  5. Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
  6. Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
  7. Harry Potter Series - J K Rowling
  8. Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkein
  9. Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
  10. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  11. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  12. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  15. Ulysses - James Joyce
  16. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  17. Herzog - Saul Bellow
  18. Ask the Dust - John Fante
  19. Windup Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  20. Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  21. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral Punk History - Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  22. Death and the a Maiden - Ariel Dorfman
  23. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
  24. Tommyland - Tommy Lee
  25. The Dirt - Motley Crue
  26. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
  27. He Died With a Felafel in His Hand - John Birmingham
  28. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
  29. Set This House In Order - Matt Ruff
  30. Dr Neruda's Cure For Evil - Rafael Yglesias
  31. Sushi for beginners - Marian Keyes
  32. Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
  33. A Country Child - Alison Uttley
  34. Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
  35. A Connecticut Yankk In King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
  36. Papillon - Henri Charriere
  37. The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalisation - London & Kelly
  38. Warlock - Wilbur Smith
  39. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
  40. Sungod - Wilbur Smith
  41. Dangerous Lady - Martina Cole
  42. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
  43. Sickened - Julie Gregory
  44. Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
  45. The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
  46. Emma - Jane Austen
  47. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky
  48. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature - Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault et al.
  49. Anne Frank; The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
  50. Fatal Storm - Rob Mundle

And that, my friends, is that. I am already half way through number 1, so will continue from there.

1 comment:

Miss B said...

Looks amazing Miss B2...

For someone else who finds books an utter joy this makes me smile..

Some I have read, others I am now inspired to!

ps. Had loads on so only just starting Satanic Verses, but so far - wow.

Mwah xx