Reading Room

[Lilith]

I'm curious. Mark the ones you have read. Which did you love? What's not worth the paper it's written on IYHO?

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

[Neige]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights - I think I read this in high school. I evidently don't remember much of it.
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary - I'm pretty sure I read this, but I honestly don't remember.
A Tale of Two Cities - I know I have this one at home, and I may have read it, but I'd have to skim over it again to remember for sure.
Jane Eyre - I read this for the same undergrad lit course as Pride and Prejudice (I think).
The Name of the Rose - I read this just two weeks ago, and I really liked it.
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice - I read this for an undergrad lit course. It was a fun read, especially since we compared it to the much more modern but surprisingly similar Bridget Jones's Diary.
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - I was given this book as a gift last summer, but I haven't read it yet. I am looking forward to reading it though.
Atlas Shrugged - I have this one, but I haven't read it yet. I do want to read it though, since Rand's Anthem is possibly my favourite book in the world.
Foucault's Pendulum - I'm about halfway through this one.
Dracula - I've read it, because of my love of vampires, but it didn't make a big impression on me.
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - I bought this one last month and I'm very much looking forward to reading it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - I loved this book. Wilde writes beautifully.
Dune - I started reading it, but couldn't stay interested.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead - see Atlas Shrugged
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - I have it, but have not read it yet.
Oliver Twist - I read this quite a few years ago - the edition I have is over a hundred years old and seriously falling to pieces - I remember liking it.
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe - I remember reading this when I was a child, I liked it.
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners - I've started reading this, but haven't finished it yet.
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover - I have it but haven't read it yet. I am reading Women in Love by Lawrence at the moment though.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables - I love it.
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I bought this per Booger's recommendation but I haven't read it yet.
Treasure Island - I read this as a child... I remember I liked it.
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

[Atlas]

Listed below are all the ones I've read. Unfortunately I don't remember most of them since I was under the age of 10 when I read them. My thirst for reading began a little young, and I spent many hours in the library as a child. I began reading Stephen King religiously by the time I was in fourth grade and quit the classics. Now I just don't seem to have to time to read anymore. I recall liking these books though, and still have a copy of The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck was a wonderful author and I enjoyed all his books.

A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
The Grapes of Wrath
The Three Musketeers
Oliver Twist
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
Treasure Island
The War of the Worlds

[Neige]

What about you, Lilith?

[Lilith]

What about you, Lilith?

I'm completely embarassed by what I have not read. My children have read more of them than I have. I grew up in a really rural setting when I should have been introduced to these. Now I read kid's lit.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West~ I am halfway through
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces~ remember very little
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli~ grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Theater History Class
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

[PantyFanatic]

Thanks Lil. You just made me realize that while I, like most people, always state "the book was better than the movie", find that after many years, the movie seem to be more memorable. :shrug:

I recall reading a number from your list but most were 'required reading'. As you know, most of my reading now is more technical and I never have enough time to do as much as I'd like there.

Here's the ones I do recall reading.


Wuthering Heights :shrug:
War and Peace :thumbs:
A Tale of Two Cities :eew:
Moby Dick :thumbs:
The Canterbury Tales :eew:
Great Expectations :hair:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (only followed the good series)
The Grapes of Wrath :shrug:
The Sound and The Fury :thumbs:
Brave New World :line:

[PantyFanatic]

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (does knowing the Wicked Witch of the North count? )
The Picture of Dorian Gray :thumb:
Dune :thumbs:
Gulliver's Travels :shrug:
The Inferno :shrug:
Oliver Twist :shrug:
Robinson Crusoe :thumbs:
The Scarlet Letter :eew:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame :shrug:
Lady Chatterley's Lover :rolleyes:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :thumbs:

[PantyFanatic]

Treasure Island :shrug:
David Copperfield :hair:
The War of the Worlds :thumb: Only the movie

[IowaMan]

Sort of embarrassed that I haven't read more of these. :o

For the most part, all of the ones listed, I did enjoy. There really isn't any of them that didn't like.


Catch-22
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov ~ Loved it!!! :thumbs:
Ulysses
War and Peace ~ Hey, I read over 3/4 of it so I'll claim I've read it! :rofl:
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Was a very difficult read for me.
Jane Eyre ~ Enjoyed it very much! :thumb:
The Iliad
The Canterbury Tales
Great Expectations
Atlas Shrugged ~ Been working on this one for months now.
The Grapes of Wrath ~ Loved it!!! :thumbs:
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Inferno ~ Loved it!!!! :thumbs:
The Fountainhead ~ Perhaps the best development of characters of anything I've ever read.
A Clockwork Orange ~ Loved it!! :thumbs:
The Scarlet Letter ~ Liked it but expected more. :shrug:
In Cold Blood ~ Loved it!!! :thumbs: :thumbs:
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf

[jseal]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote: the first book is well worth the effort.
The Odyssey: I have enjoyed it more than once.
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace: I cannot do the Russians
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose: An enjoyable read.
Moby Dick: Yes!
Emma
The Iliad: Sing, goddess ...
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice: Good stuff.
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales: Timeless.
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged: see The Fountainhead.
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula: Did not get through to me.
The Grapes of Wrath: A must read
Frankenstein: see Dracula
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World: Huxley's dystopia should be required reading for all who love liberty.
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West[B]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
[B]Dune: Frank Herbert Rules!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels: Recommended.
The Three Musketeers: :thumb:
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead: Rand Rocks!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist: Dickens needed an editor.
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe: :)
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter: :thumbs:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Harsh, nasty, and spellbinding!
The Once and Future King: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night. :)
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: If enough people read it, we may save our so called civilization.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood: :thumb:
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down: :thumbs: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night. :)
Beowulf :(
The Aeneid: :(
A Farewell to Arms: I enjoyed it.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: :thumbs: Beauty in prose.
Treasure Island: Mo’ good bedtime stories.
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds: A good read.

[Neige]

Oh!!! Forgot one! I read Brave New World last year!!!!! I loved it!

[scotzoidman]

Been a long time since I read any fiction book, just for the fun of it. Some of these I think I might have read, or maybe I just read the Classic Comics version... :banghead:

A Tale of Two Cities - it was the best of books, it was the worst of books ;)
The Canterbury Tales - read this when I was old enough to snicker at the Miller's Tale...modern translation, of course.
Great Expectations - req. in jr high, I think
Memoirs of a Geisha - just sold MIL's copy on ebay, was I supposed to read it?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - read it, liked it better than the movie.
David Copperfield - my aunt had me read this when I was way too young to absorb a tome of this size, but it did leave me with a lifelong appreciation of Mr Dickens. (BTW, I also read the book version of A Christmas Carol)

[fzzy]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury TalesThe Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New WorldQuicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds
__________________

Almost all of those I have read have been since leaving school..... my setting was also VERY rural and we didnt' really have a required reading list.

[Atlas]

I recall reading a number from your list but most were 'required reading'.



Speaking of "required reading," does anyone recall "Flowers For Algernon?" It was a fantastic book that I had to read in 4th grade and again in 7th grade (apparently the reading comprehension level went down). You may know it as "Charlie" but either way, it was great.

If anyone's down for camping and survival living, "Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature and Survival For Children" is a fantastic read....especially for adults. It may not be a classic, but you'll never be in the middle of nowhere feeling like a dumbass after learning some techniques.

I especially like reading psychology books and am currently studying a few books in that field, to include hypnotism. Who am I to say they're good though...I read crap about quantum physics and manage to understand it for 1/2 a day.

[Neige]

I remember reading Flowers for Algernon!!! I think it was for grade 7. We had watched the movie after finishing the book.

We also had to read Shane, The Pearl, The Cay... I don't remember which was for grade 7 and which for grade 8 though.

(I went to French schools. Our first English classes were in grade 3. In high school though, our English courses were the same as in any of the English schools of the province, and we wrote the same provincial exams in English as every other 12th grade student in Nova Scotia.)

[Atlas]

Is it just me, or is education going downhill? What I used to have to do in 3rd grade is now acceptable in 6th or 7th grade. When I went to kindergarten, I already wrote in cursive (taught in 3rd grade in my day....I don't know when it's taught now). Then again, my grade school didn't teach languages though so many people spoke French in my area (northeast coast).

Thankfully enough, I love learning more than anything else and am trying to learn French and German all at once. Unfortunately, I know more Korean than anything else without even trying.

[Neige]

What I see happening a lot (my best friend is an elementary school teacher) is that children who aren't really at the level to pass the grade are being passed anyway. Supposedly failing a year is bad for a child's self-confidence, I guess. I don't see how it's supposed to help by passing a child who isn't yet ready though - it just creates more problems, for that child as well as for the others who will be slowed down the next year because of that child.

[Fangtasia]

I've not even heard of most of em *LOL*

Ones i've read (or seen movie)

The Silmarillion ~ if this one is the SciFi type novel, then i have read it, cant remember it much tho
Moby Dick
Emma
Great Expectations
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dune
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The InfernoOliver Twist
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest~ A must read for school
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Watership Down ~ Absolutley LOVE this book
Beowulf
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The War of the Worlds

[Atlas]

It is bad to not keep a child back who isn't ready. Just as it is not passing someone ahead who is ready. When I was young, I was reading trigonometry books at the library, but had to say in addition/subtraction classes with my fellow classmates. By the time I was in 9th grade, I was doing my older brother's drafting homework and creating battleship designs for the Navy. Being held back gives people such as me less confidence because we're denied the ability to do what we dream of. Unfortunately, I'm incredibly smart and have no way of directing that intelligence since I'm so used to being forced behind others.

Then I have the ability to act stupid and say "RELEASE THE KRACKEN!!!!!!!!!!"

[Atlas]

Oh yeah, and to make matters even worse, my baby brother (11 years difference) got the job I applied for even though I already had the security clearance and the experience.

[Lost]

the ones I have read....

Catch-22 - read it in my teen years, thought it was ok
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
Moby Dick
Emma
The Canterbury Tales
Great Expectations
Atlas Shrugged
Dracula
Frankenstein
Brave New World
American Gods - have read ALL his stuff, really enjoy it
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune - enjoyed it but got lost a few times reading the series, enjoyed it though
The Inferno
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Anansi Boys - thought it was great, read it last month
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass - read the whole series just recently, really enjoyed them
Watership Down
The Aeneid
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - a must read in my opinion!
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The War of the Worlds

the ones I didnt comment on I read YEARS ago

[dicksbro]

I'm curious. Mark the ones you have read. Which did you love? What's not worth the paper it's written on IYHO?

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds[/QUOTE]

[oxyuranus]

A Clockwork Orange (the full version)

that's it.

[wyndhy]

most of these were read in school. can't think of one i didn't like although some were harder to read - well, not so much read but comprehend - than others

Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
Ulysses
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
Moby Dick
The Iliad
Pride and Prejudice
The Canterbury Tales
Great Expectations
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
Sense and Sensibility
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Satanic Verses
Gulliver's Travels
The Inferno
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Watership Down
Beowulf
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

[Rhiannon]

most of the others i have read in school. i am huge reader. tons of books on my bed bookcase

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula[/B] loved it
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha Loved it
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible read it but didnt enjoy it
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West bleck
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys hated it
Atonement reading now
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes hated it
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds[/QUOTE]

[wyndhy]

most of these were read in school. can't think of one i didn't like although some were harder to read - well, not so much read but comprehend - than others

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

forgot about what a chore this one was. went to reread it recently to see if it was a maturity thing. yawn and double yawn.

[scotzoidman]

I almost put A Clockwork Orange on my read list, but I didn't really read it as such - I saw (& somewhat enjoyed) the movie, & before I was old enough to see the movie someone I knew had a book with stills & captions from the movie...I know, doesn't count as reading the book. But about 20 years ago, an article in Rolling Stone revealed that the UK version of the book contained a final chapter or epilogue that was not included in the US version, and RS then printed the missing chapter. I did read that, & it gives a whole different spin to the story that I knew from the movie.

[AngelicVampires]

Wuthering Heights - Not too bad
The Odyssey- Read it a long time ago...wasn't too bad
Ulysses- Blah
The Iliad- Not my favorite
Pride and Prejudice- Good book
The Canterbury Tales- EWWWWWWW
Great Expectations- Also, not too bad
Dracula- Love vampires...this one started off kinda slow but it was ok
Frankenstein- Not too bad
The Count of Monte Cristo- Great movie
The Sound and The Fury- If this is the one I am thinking of, I was lost through most of it
Memoirs of a Geisha- Good movie
The Three Musketeers- Good movie
Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Run away screaming
Beowulf- I liked this one

Also recommend To Kill a Mockingbird, Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys, White Fang, Black Beauty, Firestarter, and Sole Survivor

[jseal]

Speaking of "required reading," does anyone recall "Flowers For Algernon?" It was a fantastic book that I had to read in 4th grade and again in 7th grade (apparently the reading comprehension level went down). You may know it as "Charlie" but either way, it was great...
Atlas,

Yes'm, and it remains so. It broke new ground in SF in ethics and morality.

[Jude30]

Catch-22 (currently in the middle of this one0
The Canterbury Tales (Parts for English in school)
Brave New World
American Gods (Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite writers)
Dune (My favorite science fiction novel of all time)
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Anansi Boys (See note above)
In Cold Blood
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli


Now a lot of the others on the list I own, but have never read entirely.

[Booger]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22 - Enjoyed this book a lot
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities - I love Dickens
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations - I love Dickens
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath I think I read this in high school
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha - read this and enjoyed it a lot
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible - read this and enjoyed it
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune - one of the first book I read when I really started reading
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist - I love Dickens
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange - Read this a bit on the strange side but I enjoyed it
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - would say this rates in the to 25 of my favorite books
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms - read this was not one of my favorites but not bad
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - read this not sure if I truly understood this book but did enjoy it
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds - I think I read this in high school


Lilith where did you get this list?

Here's a short list of other books that I have read that I think would fit into this list well.

Fahrenheit 451
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher In The Rye
The Great Gatsby
Steppenwolf
On The Road

[Lilith]

stole it :D

[Booger]

stole it :D


From where?

[wyndhy]

read eat, pray, love by liz gilbert this summer if you can lil. you'll enjoy it. i'm sure of it.

[scotzoidman]

Fahrenheit 451
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher In The Rye
The Great Gatsby
Steppenwolf
On The Road
Boog, how many of those were required reading for you in school?

I'm pretty sure the first two were on mine, & just shows to go ya how science fiction becomes science fact, Fahrenheit 451 showed up on #2 son's req. list last year (I copped him a lightly used copy off Ebay).

[Neige]

I know that To Kill A Mockingbird has been taken off the required reading list in Nova Scotia schools. A teacher isn't even allowed to recommend it anymore, from what I understand. It's still in the libraries though, I think.

[Booger]

Boog, how many of those were required reading for you in school?

I'm pretty sure the first two were on mine, & just shows to go ya how science fiction becomes science fact, Fahrenheit 451 showed up on #2 son's req. list last year (I copped him a lightly used copy off Ebay).


To tell the truth Scotz none of them were for me. I read them all in my mid to late 20's on my own.

[scotzoidman]

I know that To Kill A Mockingbird has been taken off the required reading list in Nova Scotia schools. A teacher isn't even allowed to recommend it anymore, from what I understand. It's still in the libraries though, I think.
Kinda like Huck Finn has been banned from assigned reading lists in the US. Something about using a PI word...