Reading List

    Apparently I’m supposed to make bold all the books in this list that I’ve read and then add my own three book choices to the bottom. Then you steal it from me and use it on your site. From catsudon. I actually found it kind of interesting to scour the back of my mind for books that I remember reading when I was younger.

    The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
    Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
    His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
    The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
    To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

    1984, George Orwell
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
    Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
    Catch-22, Joseph Heller
    Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
    Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
    Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
    The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
    The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

    Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
    Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
    War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
    Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
    Harry Potter And The Sorcerers, JK Rowling
    Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
    Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

    The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
    Tess Of The DUrbervilles, Thomas Hardy
    Middlemarch, George Eliot
    A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
    The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

    The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
    One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
    David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
    Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
    Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
    A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
    Persuasion, Jane Austen
    Dune, Frank Herbert
    Emma, Jane Austen
    Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

    Watership Down, Richard Adams
    The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
    The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
    Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
    Animal Farm, George Orwell
    A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
    Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
    Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
    The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
    The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

    The Stand, Stephen King
    Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
    A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
    The BFG, Roald Dahl
    Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

    Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
    Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
    Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
    Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
    A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
    The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
    Mort, Terry Pratchett
    The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
    The Magus, John Fowles
    Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
    Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
    Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
    Perfume, Patrick Susskind
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
    Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
    Matilda, Roald Dahl
    Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
    The Secret History, Donna Tartt
    The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

    Ulysses, James Joyce
    Bleak House, Charles Dickens
    Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
    The Twits, Roald Dahl
    I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

    Holes, Louis Sachar
    Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
    The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
    Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
    Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
    Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
    Magician, Raymond E Feist
    On The Road, Jack Kerouac
    The Godfather, Mario Puzo
    The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
    The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
    The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
    Katherine, Anya Seton
    Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
    Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
    The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
    Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
    Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K Jerome
    Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
    The Beach, Alex Garland
    Dracula, Bram Stoker
    Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
    The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
    Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
    The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
    The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
    The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
    Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
    The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged /, Sue Townsend
    The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
    Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
    The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
    The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
    Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
    The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    Shogun, James Clavell
    The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
    Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
    Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
    The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
    House Of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski
    The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
    Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
    Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
    The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
    Possession, A S Byatt
    The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
    The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
    Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
    East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
    Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
    Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
    The Color Purple, Alice Walker
    Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
    The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
    Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
    Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
    All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
    Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
    High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
    It, Stephen King
    James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
    The Green Mile, Stephen King
    Papillon, Henri Charriere
    Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
    Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
    Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
    Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
    Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
    The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
    Atonement, Ian McEwan
    Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
    The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
    One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
    Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
    Moby Dick, Herman Melville
    River God, Wilbur Smith
    Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
    The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
    The World According To Garp, John Irving
    Lorna Doone, R D Blackmore (
    Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
    The Far Pavilions, M M Kaye
    The Witches, Roald Dahl
    Charlottes Web, E B White
    Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

    They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
    The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
    Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
    Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
    Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
    The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

    The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
    Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
    The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
    Silas Marner, George Eliot
    American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
    The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
    Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
    Goosebumps, R L Stine
    Heidi, Johanna Spyri
    Sons And Lovers, D H Lawrence
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
    Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
    The Truth, Terry Pratchett
    The War Of The Worlds, H G Wells
    The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
    A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
    Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
    The Once And Future King, T H White
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
    Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
    The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
    The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
    The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
    The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
    Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
    Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
    Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
    A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
    Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
    A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
    As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
    Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
    The Married Man, Edmund White
    Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
    The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
    Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
    Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
    Equus, Peter Shaffer
    The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
    Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
    Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
    The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
    Anthem, Ayn Rand
    The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
    Tartuffe, Moliere
    The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
    The Crucible, Arthur Miller
    The Trial, Franz Kafka
    Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
    Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
    Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
    A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
    Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
    Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
    A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
    ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
    Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
    Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
    The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
    Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
    Summerland, Michael Chabon
    A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
    Candide, Voltaire
    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl

    Ringworld, Larry Niven
    The King Must Die, Mary Renault
    Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
    A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
    The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

    The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

    The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
    Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
    Xanth The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
    The Lost Princess of Oz, L Frank Baum
    Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
    Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
    Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde

    Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
    The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
    A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
    Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
    Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
    Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
    Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C OBrien
    Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
    The Cay, Theodore Taylor
    From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, EL Konigsburg
    The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
    The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
    The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
    The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
    Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
    Wicked, Gregory Maguire
    American Gods, Neil Gaiman
    Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
    The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
    Haunted, Judith St George
    Singularity, William Sleator
    A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
    Different Seasons, Stephen King
    Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
    About a Boy, Nick Hornby
    The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
    The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
    Illusions, Richard Bach
    Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
    Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
    Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
    The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
    Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L Chalker
    Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
    The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
    Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
    The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
    The Cider House Rules, John Irving
    Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
    Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
    The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
    The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
    Cyteen, C J Cherryh
    Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
    Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
    Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
    Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
    The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
    War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
    The Art of War, Sun Tzu
    The Giver, Lois Lowry
    The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
    Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
    A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
    The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
    The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
    Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
    The Princess Bride, S Morganstern (or William Goldman)
    Beowulf, Anonymous
    The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
    Deerskin, Robin McKinley
    Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
    Passage, Connie Willis
    Otherland, Tad Williams
    Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
    Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
    Beloved, Toni Morrison
    Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
    The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
    Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
    The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
    Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
    The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
    The Genesis Code, John Case
    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
    Paradise Lost, John Milton
    Phantom, Susan Kay
    The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
    Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
    The Dresden Files Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
    Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
    The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
    The Oddkins, Dean R Koontz
    My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
    The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
    At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
    Othello, by William Shakespeare
    The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
    The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
    Sati, Christopher Pike
    The Inferno, Dante
    The Apology, Plato
    The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
    The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
    Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
    The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
    Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
    To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
    Our Town, Thorton Wilder
    Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
    The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
    The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
    The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
    A Passage to India, EM Forster
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
    The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
    Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
    The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
    Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
    Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
    Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
    Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
    The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
    The Lunatic at Large by J Storer Clouston
    Time for Bed by David Baddiel
    Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
    The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
    Jhereg by Steven Brust
    So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
    Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
    Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
    The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
    Neuromancer, William Gibson
    The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
    A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M Miller, Jr
    The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
    The Gunslinger, Stephen King
    Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
    Childhoods End, Arthur C Clarke
    A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
    Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
    The God Boy, Ian Cross
    The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R King
    Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
    Misery, Stephen King
    Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
    Hood, Emma Donoghue
    The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    Regeneration, Pat Barker
    Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald
    Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
    A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
    The View from Saturday, EL Konigsburg
    Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
    A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
    Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
    The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E Guest
    The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
    Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
    The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
    The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
    I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
    Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
    Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
    The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
    The Iron Tower, Dennis L McKiernen
    Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
    A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
    Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
    Hyperion, Dan Simmons
    If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
    The Bridge, Iain Banks
    Practical Demonkeeping, Christopher Moore
    Promethea, Alan Moore
    the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon
    archangel - robert harris
    vernon god little - dbc pierre
    ultimate spiderman - brian michael bendis
    The Glamour, Christopher Priest
    The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford
    The Third Person, Steve Mosby
    Psychoville, Christopher Fowler
    The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
    The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
    The Priestess of Avalon, Marion Bradley
    The Mists of Avalon, Marion Bradley
    Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
    The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread – Pat Robertson
    Abarat – Clive Barker
    The City of Beasts – Isabel Allende
    The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
    American Gods – Neil Gaiman
    Coraline – Neil Gaiman
    Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling
    Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code – Eoin Colfer
    Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident – Eoin Colfer
    The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
    The Invisible Man – Ralph Waldo Ellison
    Ogre, Ogre – Piers Anthony
    Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger
    King Rat - James Clavell
    Fools Die - Mario Puzo
    Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
    A Walk To Remember - Nicholas Sparks
    Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
    Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
    Colors of the Mountain - Da Chen
    Women of the Silk - Gail Tsukiyama
    Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
    Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington
    Black Tide - Peter Temple

    The thing that puzzles me about this list is the name ‘Jacqueline Wilson’ - there are so many titles by her, and I have no idea who she is. She probably started this whole thing.


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