book time

[lauralh]

Here are the current top 50 books from http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan to read. Leave the rest.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Comments

[das-prompt.livejournal.com]

Not gonna read Neuromancer?

or LotR

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Is it really worth it? I could barely get through the first chapter.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I really must recommend Shadow of the Wind.
boyfriend's review:
"It's vast in its sensibility but incredibly close and enveloping in its feel, drawing readers in with a style that is somehow shockingly stark as well as impossibly rich, the language a mixture of the contemporary and the semi-baroque. It's set in Spain and Paris during the period from the 1920's through the 1950's. It's the best Gothic written since 1900 I've read in years. It's maaaagic."

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation; I'll add it to my list. :)

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

too much pop lit/gamer lit for my tastes.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Re: or LotR

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

me either! i've always felt kind of guilty about this... based on all the other classic sci-fi i like, i'm supposed to love it. but i just didn't care and i felt like it made me a failure as a geek.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well it's based on people's recs and stuff

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I figure since I read Snow Crash, which parodies it, I'm all set.

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

i have to add an endorsement for 'the secret history' by donna tartt. it's an easy, engrossing read, simply worth it for the classic gaylords she describes, if nothing else. her second novel, 'the little friend,' is also pretty wrought with gothic fabulousness.

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

i know. i was just feeling guilty for having less formatted titles than everyone else, and felt that i needed an excuse.

heh, and i'm glad i'm not the only one without any intention of reading 100 years of solitude. my college offered a whole class on that damned book and people have been trying to get me to read it since i came out of the womb, but i hated chronicle of a death foretold so much that i've written off marquez entirely....

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

i actually read about half of it and was like "I don't care about anyone in this book" so I stopped.

[scarlett723.livejournal.com]

Other than the recommendation from you, the list didn't give me new ideas, but when I actually used the website, I finally starting getting some new recommendations from amazon (no, amazon, I do not want any more david sedaris, yes, I know I bought sarah vowell).

[perich.livejournal.com]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[perich.livejournal.com]

I would say "You're missing the point" but that sounds condescending so I won't.

Suffice it to say: people don't read it for the characters.

[ashlin519.livejournal.com]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

there's no plot either!

[velvet.livejournal.com]

nor do you read it for the plot.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading it because I was tired of being bored to death.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

now you really sound condescending.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Are you actually not going to read any of those, or did you just not follow directions.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye - J.D.
Salinger The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird -
Harper Lee The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell Catch-22 - Joseph
Heller The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Lord of the Flies - William
Golding Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1984 - George
Orwell Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memoirs
of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson The Secret
History - Donna Tartt A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Brave New World - Aldous
Huxley American Gods - Neil Gaiman Ender's Game - Orson
Scott Card Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson A Prayer for Owen Meany -
John Irving The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte
Bronte Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Atonement -
Ian McEwan The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Old Man and the
Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The Bell
Jar - Sylvia Plath

[perich.livejournal.com]

I realized after I hit "Submit" that I have Atonement on my bedside table. Other than that, though, not planning on reading any of those.

[joblessmusician.livejournal.com]

It's like a combination of the bestseller lists, and high school curriculum.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

heh, basically
plus nerd lit