Tuesday, May 8, 2007

It

*bows low before Anahita for giving her something to post*

Instructions:



Look at the list of books below.

*Bold the ones you've read

*Italicize the ones you want to read

*leave blank the ones that you aren't interested in.


  1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
  2. Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) [Read half.Got bored.Thus.]
  3. To kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  4. Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell)
  5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the king (Tolkien) [NO WAY AM I READING IT.Got the compiled edition from the library,squinted long and hard,read three pages,got muddled, returned it.]
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) [Self explanatory]
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two towers (Tolkien) [Self explanatory]
  8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) [Made a lot of mistakes, I have.This was one of them.Read only if you are super optimistic.Or a 10 year old.]
  9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
  10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
  11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
  12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
  13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
  14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
  15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
  16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
  17. Fall on your Knees (Anne-Marie Macdonald)
  18. The Stand (Stephen King)
  19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
  20. Jane Eyre(Charlotte Bronte)
  21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) [You seriously don't give up, do you?]
  22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
  23. Little Women (L.A. Alcott)
  24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) [Mine, they were :D]
  25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(Douglas Adams) [Definitely one of my favourites.Yeah, moi lurvey Marvin :P]
  27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
  28. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)
  29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
  30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Ablom) [My mum bought it.I picked it up.Read five pages.Put it back again.]
  31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
  32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
  33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
  34. 1984 (orwell)
  35. The mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
  36. The Pillar of Earth (Ken Follett)
  37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
  38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) [And I can prove you're lying.*removes her specs a la Abhishek Bachchan in Dhoom* Wally Lamb hastily retreats and orders a change in the name.Mwahahahaha.*looks quietly content with herself*]
  39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
  40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelcho)
  41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
  42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) [Amaaaaaazing book.Simple words, easy to follow, and completely moving..Absolutely recommended]
  43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) [Me can't find it anywhere in the bookstores near my place :( ]
  44. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) [Hmmm.This sounds like another one of those self help books.No, thank you]
  45. Bible [Read it in bits and pieces :P]
  46. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
  47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
  48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
  49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
  50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
  51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
  52. A Tale of Two Cities(Dickens)
  53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
  54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
  55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)[Got it as a gift.Read one chapter...:S]
  56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
  57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
  58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
  59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
  61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) [Ha.The same book Adrian Mole read when his mum discovered the porn mags under his bed, innit? Cool.Then I'm all for it, considering the other books he read included Why Children Fail]
  62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) [Reading it currently]
  63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
  64. Interview with the Vampire(Anne Rice)
  65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
  66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Anna Bradshares)
  68. Catch 22 (Joseph heller)
  69. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
  70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
  71. Brigdet Jones' Diary (Fielding) [If the movie is any indication, then I'm all for it!]
  72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
  73. Shogun (James Clavell)
  74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
  75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
  76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
  77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
  78. A World According to Garp (John Irving)
  79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
  80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
  81. Not Wanted on The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
  82. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) [Sounds intriguing, to say the least]
  83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
  84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
  85. Emma (Jane Austen)
  86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
  87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
  89. Blindness (Jose Saranmage)
  90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)[Ah.My favourite Archer book.And the most riveting of 'em all.]
  91. In the Skin of a Lion (Ondaatje)
  92. The Lord of the Flies(Golding)
  93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
  94. The Secret Life of Bees(Sue Monk Kidd) [I'd like to read the secret life of Sue Monk Kidd in that case][Hmm.And that is SOME obsession with animals...lions, flies and bees?!
  95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
  96. The Outsiders(SE Hinton)
  97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
  98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
  99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
  100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Hmm.20%.
Sucks man.

Bah.

Aanchal,Prerna,Fishdoodles and Geetika - I tag thee.

3 comments:

Vintage Girl said...

omg noo u shud read gone with the wind!! its a classic and its really really good!!
and the kite runner seems to be quite a hit w/ everyone....i must read it!!

Vintage Girl said...

oh sorry i thought u said "NO WAY AM I READING IT.Got the compiled edition from the library,squinted long and hard,read three pages,got muddled, returned it. for Gone with the wind...lol my bad
and abt LOTR....im glad im not the only one who duznt wanna read it...

Aanchal said...

Hmm..20%, not that bad you know..Take a wild guess and tell why i am not doing the tag.. lol..
And, an advice: Bridget Jones' book, is not that good..It's kinda boring in the middle..

 

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