Saturday, May 24, 2008

Lists

Here's Deepti's post and here's my list -

  1. Addendum
  2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  3. Anna Karenina
  4. Crime and Punishment
  5. Catch-22
  6. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  7. Wuthering Heights <--
  8. The Silmarillion
  9. Life of Pi : a novel <--
  10. The Name of the Rose
  11. Don Quixote
  12. Moby Dick
  13. Ulysses
  14. Madame Bovary
  15. The Odyssey
  16. Pride and Prejudice
  17. Jane Eyre
  18. ATale of Two Cities
  19. The Brothers Karamazov
  20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
  21. War and Peace
  22. Vanity Fair
  23. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  24. The Iliad
  25. Emma
  26. The Blind Assassin
  27. The Kite Runner *
  28. Mrs. Dalloway
  29. Great Expectations
  30. American Gods
  31. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  32. Atlas Shrugged
  33. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
  34. Memoirs of a Geisha <--
  35. Middlesex <--
  36. Quicksilver
  37. Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
  38. Frankenstein
  39. The Count of Monte Cristo
  40. Dracula
  41. A Clockwork Orange
  42. Anansi Boys
  43. The Once and Future King
  44. The Grapes of Wrath
  45. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
  46. 1984
  47. Angels & Demons
  48. The Inferno
  49. The Satanic Verses
  50. Sense and Sensibility
  51. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  52. Mansfield Park
  53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest <--
  54. To the Lighthouse
  55. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  56. OliverTwist
  57. Gulliver’s Travels
  58. Les Misérables <--
  59. The Corrections
  60. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  61. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  62. Dune
  63. The Prince
  64. The Sound and the Fury
  65. Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
  66. The God of Small Things
  67. A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
  68. Cryptonomicon
  69. Neverwhere
  70. A Confederacy of Dunces
  71. A Short History of Nearly Everything - SorryMr. Bryson <--
  72. Dubliners
  73. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  74. Beloved
  75. Slaghterhouse-five
  76. The Scarlet Letter
  77. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  78. The Mists of Avalon
  79. Oryx and Crake : a novel
  80. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
  81. Cloud Atlas
  82. The Confusion
  83. Lolita
  84. Persuasion
  85. Northanger Abbey
  86. The Catcher in the Rye
  87. On the Road
  88. The Hunchback of Notre Dame <--
  89. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
  90. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values *
  91. The Aeneid
  92. Watership Down
  93. Gravity’s Rainbow
  94. The Hobbit
  95. In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
  96. White Teeth
  97. Treasure Island
  98. David Copperfield
  • Bold - ones I've read
  • Underlined - ones I read for school
  • Italicized - ones I started but didn't finish
P.S
(*) - ones I liked and would (or did) read again or recommend
(<--) - books on my wishlist

Thanks Deepti!

Here are a few other's I'd recommend personally -
  1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull *
  2. The Day of the Jackal *
  3. Roots *
  4. Mister God, This is Anna *
  5. Marley and Me :) *

4 comments:

Santosh said...

Wow ! this is cool ; Am gonna do this :0)

Santosh

Pranjal said...

I thought so too :)...

Deepti Dani said...

I have read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and I found it boring. Sorry. The others I'll surely try. :)

Pranjal said...

Hey! Why sorry?! I know your choice (pretty much) :)! Ujji, Baba and me have read it SO many times now, Heh!