More book surveys haha
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glacier_kittyHow old were you when you learned to read? Really really young..I taught myself
What's the first book that you remember reading? Possibly the Bob books
What childhood books/series did you most enjoy? Where the Red Fern Grows, etc
What were you reading in your teens? A bunch of fantasy books, etc
What were you reading in your twenties? I'm only 20! Haha
What are you reading now (is it a phase or standard reading fare for you)? Wizard's First Rule and a Darwin Awards book
Do you enjoy erotic fiction? I don't read that
Do you enjoy romantic fiction? Or that
Do you have 'guilty pleasure' reads? I have before
Is there a genre/title that you particularly want to like but don't seem to 'get'? Uh..
If you were (or indeed, are) a writer, what do you think you would be writing? Fantasy or something
If you were to have a line from a book engraved on your tombstone/memorial stone, what would it be? *shrugs*
What was the last book you lent to someone else? The Five People You Meet In Heaven
What was the last book you bought? Dave Barry's Guide to Life, 1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know, Earth From Above: 365 Days. I went shopping at work today haha
Name a book you have read MORE than once. Eye of the World by Terry Brooks
Has a book ever fundamentally changed the way you see life? If yes, what was it? Uh..
How do you choose a book? e.g. by cover design and summary, recommendations or reviews. Summary, etc
Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? Both
What's more important in a novel - beautiful writing or a gripping plot? A gripping plot
Most loved/memorable character? I used to be obsessed with Morgan Leah from the Shannara series..hmm
Which book or books can be found on your nightstand at the moment? Wizard's First Rule, Brisingr, Denali Books, etc
Have you ever given up on a book halfway in? Umm
1) What author do you own the most books by? Robert Jordan?
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Eh
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? No
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? *shrugs*
5) What book have you read the most times in your life? I read the Star Wars Jedi Apprentice books over and over for YEARS haha
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old? Possibly Where the Red Fern Grows
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? *shrugs*
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Wizard's First Rule?
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be? *shrugs*
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature? Uh
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Hm..
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? *shrugs*
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. Umm
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? ..huh?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? The Red Badge of Courage, etc
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Umm
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Uh..
18) Roth or Updike? Who's Roth?
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Who?
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? Meh..
21) Austen or Eliot? Who's Eliot?
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? Hm..
23) What is your favourite novel? Uhh..
24) Play? *shrugs*
25) Poem? Hm..
26) Essay? Uhh..
27) Short story? *shrugs*
28) Work of non-fiction? *shrugs*
29) Who is your favourite writer? *shrugs*
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Stephanie Meyer?
31) What is your desert island book? Bleh
32) And...what are you reading right now? See other survey
***
1. The Ultimate Hitch-Hiker's Guide by Douglas Adams.
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel
6. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
7. Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
14. The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
18. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson
19. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
20. The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot
22. Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
23. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
24. The Kor'an by Anonymous
25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26. The Odyssey by Homer
27. The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
28. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29. The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
30. The historian: a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
31. Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco
32. Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
33. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
34. The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
35. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
36. The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
37. The Iliad by Homer
38. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
39. Emma by Jane Austen
40. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
41. Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence
42. Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift
43. The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
45. Dracula by Bram Stoker
46. Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence
47. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
48. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
49. The once and future king by T. H. White
50. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
51. To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
52. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
53. Oryx and Crake: a novel by Margaret Atwood
54. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
55. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
56. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
58. The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
59. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
60. Underworld by Don DeLillo
61. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
62. The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
63. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
64. The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
65. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
66. Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy
67. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
68. Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
70. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
71. The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
72. The inferno by Dante Alighieri
73. Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
74. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
75. Swann's way by Marcel Proust
76. The poisonwood Bible: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
77. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel by Michael Chabon
78. Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
79. The portrait of a lady by Henry James
80. Silas Marner by George Eliot
81. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas
83. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
84. The book thief by Markus Zusak
85. The confusion by Neal Stephenson
86. One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
87. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
88. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
89. The system of the world by Neal Stephenson
90. The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene
91. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
92. The known world by Edward P. Jones
93. The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
94. The mill on the Floss by George Eliot
95. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje
96. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
97. Dubliners by James Joyce
98. Les misérables by Victor Hugo
99. The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan
100. Infinite jest: a novel by David Foster Wallace
101. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
102. Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison
103. Persuasion by Jane Austen
104. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
105. The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
106. Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller
107. The Mabinogion by Anonymous
108. Anansi boys: a novel by Neil Gaiman
109. The island of the day before by Umberto Eco
110. The age of innocence by Edith Wharton
111. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
112. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
113. Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel
114. Possession: a romance by A.S. Byatt
115. In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its… by Truman Capote
116. Of human bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
117. Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
118. The phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
119. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
120. As I lay dying by William Faulkner
121. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
122. Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West… by Gregory Maguire
123. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
124. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
125. Women in love by D.H. Lawrence
126. The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
127. The Aeneid by Virgil
128. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
129. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
130. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
131. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
132. Angela's Ashes: a memoir by Frank McCourt
133. Son of a witch: a novel by Gregory Maguire
134. Dune by Frank Herbert
135. The mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
136. Cloud atlas: a novel by David Mitchell
137. Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy
138. Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
139. Pattern recognition by William Gibson
140. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
141. A people's history of the United States: 1492-present by Howard Zinn
142. Cold mountain by Charles Frazier
143. American gods: a novel by Neil Gaiman
144. The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
145. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne
146. Cat's eye by Margaret Atwood
147. The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
148. Vellum by Hal Duncan
149. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
150. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig
151. Paradise lost a poem in twelve books by John Milton
152. The plot against America by Philip Roth
153. The ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke
154. A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
155. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins
156. The plague by Albert Camus
157. Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson
158. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
159. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
160. The idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
161. Northanger abbey by Jane Austen
162. Midnight in the garden of good and evil: a Savannah story by John Berendt
163. The road by Cormac McCarthy
164. Light in August by William Faulkner
165. Notes from the underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
166. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
167. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
168. Watership Down by Richard Adams
169. The histories by Herodotus
170. The return of the native by Thomas Hardy
171. A passage to India by E.M. Forster
172. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
173. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; an experiment in literary… by Aleksander Solzenitsyn
174. Utopia by Thomas More
175. Freedom & necessity by Steven Brust
176. Beowulf: a new verse translation by Anonymous (any translation)
177. The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
178. Everything is illuminated: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
179. The moonstone by Wilkie Collins
180. Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs
181. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
182. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne
183. The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
184. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
185. Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire
186. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
187. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
188. That hideous strength: a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups by C. S. Lewis
189. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman
190. For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
191. The mysterious flame of Queen Loana: an illustrated novel by Umberto Eco
192. The thirteenth tale: a novel by Diane Setterfield
193. The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent by Washington Irving
194. Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
195. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
196. The ground beneath her feet: a novel by Salman Rushdie
197. Unfinished tales of Numenor and Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
198. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
199. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
200. The glass bead game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse
Pic of the day:
Summer: A brief period of bright sun and warm air, usually on a Thursday afternoon in July or August
What's the first book that you remember reading? Possibly the Bob books
What childhood books/series did you most enjoy? Where the Red Fern Grows, etc
What were you reading in your teens? A bunch of fantasy books, etc
What were you reading in your twenties? I'm only 20! Haha
What are you reading now (is it a phase or standard reading fare for you)? Wizard's First Rule and a Darwin Awards book
Do you enjoy erotic fiction? I don't read that
Do you enjoy romantic fiction? Or that
Do you have 'guilty pleasure' reads? I have before
Is there a genre/title that you particularly want to like but don't seem to 'get'? Uh..
If you were (or indeed, are) a writer, what do you think you would be writing? Fantasy or something
If you were to have a line from a book engraved on your tombstone/memorial stone, what would it be? *shrugs*
What was the last book you lent to someone else? The Five People You Meet In Heaven
What was the last book you bought? Dave Barry's Guide to Life, 1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know, Earth From Above: 365 Days. I went shopping at work today haha
Name a book you have read MORE than once. Eye of the World by Terry Brooks
Has a book ever fundamentally changed the way you see life? If yes, what was it? Uh..
How do you choose a book? e.g. by cover design and summary, recommendations or reviews. Summary, etc
Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? Both
What's more important in a novel - beautiful writing or a gripping plot? A gripping plot
Most loved/memorable character? I used to be obsessed with Morgan Leah from the Shannara series..hmm
Which book or books can be found on your nightstand at the moment? Wizard's First Rule, Brisingr, Denali Books, etc
Have you ever given up on a book halfway in? Umm
1) What author do you own the most books by? Robert Jordan?
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Eh
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? No
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? *shrugs*
5) What book have you read the most times in your life? I read the Star Wars Jedi Apprentice books over and over for YEARS haha
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old? Possibly Where the Red Fern Grows
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? *shrugs*
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Wizard's First Rule?
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be? *shrugs*
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature? Uh
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Hm..
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? *shrugs*
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. Umm
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? ..huh?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? The Red Badge of Courage, etc
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Umm
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Uh..
18) Roth or Updike? Who's Roth?
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Who?
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? Meh..
21) Austen or Eliot? Who's Eliot?
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? Hm..
23) What is your favourite novel? Uhh..
24) Play? *shrugs*
25) Poem? Hm..
26) Essay? Uhh..
27) Short story? *shrugs*
28) Work of non-fiction? *shrugs*
29) Who is your favourite writer? *shrugs*
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Stephanie Meyer?
31) What is your desert island book? Bleh
32) And...what are you reading right now? See other survey
***
1. The Ultimate Hitch-Hiker's Guide by Douglas Adams.
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel
6. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
7. Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
14. The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
18. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson
19. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
20. The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot
22. Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
23. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
24. The Kor'an by Anonymous
25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26. The Odyssey by Homer
27. The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
28. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29. The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
30. The historian: a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
31. Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco
32. Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
33. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
34. The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
35. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
36. The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
37. The Iliad by Homer
38. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
39. Emma by Jane Austen
40. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
41. Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence
42. Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift
43. The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
45. Dracula by Bram Stoker
46. Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence
47. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
48. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
49. The once and future king by T. H. White
50. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
51. To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
52. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
53. Oryx and Crake: a novel by Margaret Atwood
54. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
55. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
56. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
58. The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
59. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
60. Underworld by Don DeLillo
61. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
62. The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
63. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
64. The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
65. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
66. Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy
67. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
68. Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
70. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
71. The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
72. The inferno by Dante Alighieri
73. Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
74. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
75. Swann's way by Marcel Proust
76. The poisonwood Bible: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
77. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel by Michael Chabon
78. Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
79. The portrait of a lady by Henry James
80. Silas Marner by George Eliot
81. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas
83. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
84. The book thief by Markus Zusak
85. The confusion by Neal Stephenson
86. One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
87. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
88. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
89. The system of the world by Neal Stephenson
90. The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene
91. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
92. The known world by Edward P. Jones
93. The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
94. The mill on the Floss by George Eliot
95. The English patient by Michael Ondaatje
96. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
97. Dubliners by James Joyce
98. Les misérables by Victor Hugo
99. The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan
100. Infinite jest: a novel by David Foster Wallace
101. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
102. Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison
103. Persuasion by Jane Austen
104. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
105. The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
106. Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller
107. The Mabinogion by Anonymous
108. Anansi boys: a novel by Neil Gaiman
109. The island of the day before by Umberto Eco
110. The age of innocence by Edith Wharton
111. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
112. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
113. Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel
114. Possession: a romance by A.S. Byatt
115. In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its… by Truman Capote
116. Of human bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
117. Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
118. The phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
119. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
120. As I lay dying by William Faulkner
121. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
122. Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West… by Gregory Maguire
123. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
124. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
125. Women in love by D.H. Lawrence
126. The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
127. The Aeneid by Virgil
128. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
129. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
130. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
131. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
132. Angela's Ashes: a memoir by Frank McCourt
133. Son of a witch: a novel by Gregory Maguire
134. Dune by Frank Herbert
135. The mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
136. Cloud atlas: a novel by David Mitchell
137. Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy
138. Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
139. Pattern recognition by William Gibson
140. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
141. A people's history of the United States: 1492-present by Howard Zinn
142. Cold mountain by Charles Frazier
143. American gods: a novel by Neil Gaiman
144. The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
145. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne
146. Cat's eye by Margaret Atwood
147. The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
148. Vellum by Hal Duncan
149. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
150. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig
151. Paradise lost a poem in twelve books by John Milton
152. The plot against America by Philip Roth
153. The ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke
154. A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
155. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins
156. The plague by Albert Camus
157. Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson
158. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
159. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
160. The idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
161. Northanger abbey by Jane Austen
162. Midnight in the garden of good and evil: a Savannah story by John Berendt
163. The road by Cormac McCarthy
164. Light in August by William Faulkner
165. Notes from the underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
166. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
167. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
168. Watership Down by Richard Adams
169. The histories by Herodotus
170. The return of the native by Thomas Hardy
171. A passage to India by E.M. Forster
172. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
173. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; an experiment in literary… by Aleksander Solzenitsyn
174. Utopia by Thomas More
175. Freedom & necessity by Steven Brust
176. Beowulf: a new verse translation by Anonymous (any translation)
177. The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
178. Everything is illuminated: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
179. The moonstone by Wilkie Collins
180. Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs
181. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
182. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne
183. The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
184. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
185. Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire
186. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
187. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
188. That hideous strength: a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups by C. S. Lewis
189. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman
190. For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
191. The mysterious flame of Queen Loana: an illustrated novel by Umberto Eco
192. The thirteenth tale: a novel by Diane Setterfield
193. The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent by Washington Irving
194. Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
195. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
196. The ground beneath her feet: a novel by Salman Rushdie
197. Unfinished tales of Numenor and Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
198. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
199. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
200. The glass bead game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse
Pic of the day:
Summer: A brief period of bright sun and warm air, usually on a Thursday afternoon in July or August
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Date: 2009-06-16 03:48 am (UTC)You should really read Ivanhoe - it takes place in the same time period as Robin Hood, and it's got crusades and jousting and all that other fun medieval stuff.
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Date: 2009-06-16 12:09 pm (UTC)In my twenties, I read Heinlein almost to the point of exclusivity.
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Date: 2009-06-17 10:59 pm (UTC)