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My right eye is twitching. Or, rather, the lower lid of my right eye. You can't see it unless you look very hard, I think, but I can feel it. It's unnerving.
Bold=read; I don't own any of these books; comments in italics; + means I never even heard of it before.
1984, George Orwell Several times. Read the torture scenes even more times. (Yes, that is weird and twisted of me.)
+The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll And was in a play of it at primary school, as 'Rev. Dodgeson', i.e. the narrator. I even got to sing a solo at one point.
Animal Farm, George Orwell I read this when I was a littlekid; it had been misfiled into the children's section of the library because of the cover art. When I took it to the desk, they told me it was an adult book, and I glared at them until they let me have it.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery I owned one of these when I was younger. Some misguided relative bought it for me.
+Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
+Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley After I read this, I passed it on to my mother, who remarked 'I hadn't remembered it had so much sex in it when I said you should read it...'
+Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding What can I say. I was bored, and it was someone else's book, and I was on a long journey somewhere.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller I've *almost* read this book on several occasions; I've even read bits of it...
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl And The Glass Elevator. More than once.
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Seen *plenty* of film versions, even the Muppets one.
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel I don't know if I've read this book or not. I know my mother has. If it's the one where the entire point of the book is they have sex at the end, I haven't.
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett Several times, and sometimes for reference...
+The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert More than once, but mostly for the little history-book quotes and the appendices. Have also seen the film more than once, and some of the film-trilogy-thing. Have never got my hands on the immediate sequel, so haven't read any of them.
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
+The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
+The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian For school. Actually quite good though. All the books I had to read for school were quite good, actually.
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
+The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien When I was in Y5.
+Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
+Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
+Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis And all the rest, and the entire TV series, more than once.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding I *want* to read this book. One day I'll get around to stealing it off someone or ordering it from the library.
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien Long, boring, and not worth the effort. The mythology it spawned is great, but the actual writing is atrociously long-winded and dragging. The Hobbit was better. Our family own a copy of this, out of some kind of tradition.
+Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton I certainly *owned* this book when I was a child... I can't remember reading it, but I can't see why I woudln't have.
+Magician, Raymond E Feist
+The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
+Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
+Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
+One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
+Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
+The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
+A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen I have seen the TV version of this *at least three times*. Aaagh.
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
+The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier We did the play at school, and I *had* to read the book afterwards, because it was so haunting. The play was better, though. The TV versions were worse.
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
+The Secret History, Donna Tartt
+The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
+A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee I liked this book. I even took Prini to play with Scout. Those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about will have to remain that way.
+A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Like most classics, this is boring.
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
+Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams The cartoon version was best. Especially with the Black Rabbit. We looked out for it on walks for years afterwards.
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame I was in a play of this at primary school, too.
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne I still haven't read the poetry, though. We used to read this out loud together in the family, and my dad *was* Eeyore.
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins I saw the play of this with school.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte I seem to remember this is somehow connected with a song that goes 'it's me, it's Kathy, I'm so coooold', but that could be my mind being stupid. I liked that song for a brief moment after having read that ST:Voyager book with Kathryn Janeway's backstory...
Bold=read; I don't own any of these books; comments in italics; + means I never even heard of it before.
1984, George Orwell Several times. Read the torture scenes even more times. (Yes, that is weird and twisted of me.)
+The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll And was in a play of it at primary school, as 'Rev. Dodgeson', i.e. the narrator. I even got to sing a solo at one point.
Animal Farm, George Orwell I read this when I was a littlekid; it had been misfiled into the children's section of the library because of the cover art. When I took it to the desk, they told me it was an adult book, and I glared at them until they let me have it.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery I owned one of these when I was younger. Some misguided relative bought it for me.
+Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
+Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley After I read this, I passed it on to my mother, who remarked 'I hadn't remembered it had so much sex in it when I said you should read it...'
+Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding What can I say. I was bored, and it was someone else's book, and I was on a long journey somewhere.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller I've *almost* read this book on several occasions; I've even read bits of it...
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl And The Glass Elevator. More than once.
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Seen *plenty* of film versions, even the Muppets one.
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel I don't know if I've read this book or not. I know my mother has. If it's the one where the entire point of the book is they have sex at the end, I haven't.
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett Several times, and sometimes for reference...
+The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert More than once, but mostly for the little history-book quotes and the appendices. Have also seen the film more than once, and some of the film-trilogy-thing. Have never got my hands on the immediate sequel, so haven't read any of them.
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
+The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
+The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian For school. Actually quite good though. All the books I had to read for school were quite good, actually.
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
+The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien When I was in Y5.
+Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
+Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
+Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis And all the rest, and the entire TV series, more than once.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding I *want* to read this book. One day I'll get around to stealing it off someone or ordering it from the library.
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien Long, boring, and not worth the effort. The mythology it spawned is great, but the actual writing is atrociously long-winded and dragging. The Hobbit was better. Our family own a copy of this, out of some kind of tradition.
+Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton I certainly *owned* this book when I was a child... I can't remember reading it, but I can't see why I woudln't have.
+Magician, Raymond E Feist
+The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
+Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
+Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
+One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
+Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
+The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
+A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen I have seen the TV version of this *at least three times*. Aaagh.
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
+The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier We did the play at school, and I *had* to read the book afterwards, because it was so haunting. The play was better, though. The TV versions were worse.
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
+The Secret History, Donna Tartt
+The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
+A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee I liked this book. I even took Prini to play with Scout. Those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about will have to remain that way.
+A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Like most classics, this is boring.
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
+Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams The cartoon version was best. Especially with the Black Rabbit. We looked out for it on walks for years afterwards.
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame I was in a play of this at primary school, too.
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne I still haven't read the poetry, though. We used to read this out loud together in the family, and my dad *was* Eeyore.
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins I saw the play of this with school.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte I seem to remember this is somehow connected with a song that goes 'it's me, it's Kathy, I'm so coooold', but that could be my mind being stupid. I liked that song for a brief moment after having read that ST:Voyager book with Kathryn Janeway's backstory...
