Books To Read: Master List

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I got all the books from the entires from my LJ "books" tag and compiled them into a single reading list. It's big.



Books to Read - close your eyes and pick one


Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer

Diana Gladaban - Outlander

Labyrinths
100 Years of Solitude

Doomsday Book - Connie Willis

The Essential Bordertown - Terry Windling and Delia Sherman

Finder - Emma Bull

Watership Down - Richard Adams

Great And Secret Show - Clive Barker

The Song Reader - Lisa Tucker

The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson

The Wizard of Oz & Patchwork Girl of Oz - Frank Baum

Idlewild - Nick Sagan

Smilla's Sense of Snow - by Peter Høeg

Silver Kiss - Annette Curtis Klaus

Anything by Sherri S Tepper but my favorite is The Gates to Womens Country.

Margaret Atwood

Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman

Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper

Daughter of the Forest- Juliet Marillier

Maybe the Moon - Armistead Maupin

Beach Music - Pat Conroy

The Loop - Nicholas Evans

The Mermaids Singing and (especially) In The Country of the Young - Lisa Carey

Also The Sparrow - Maria Doria Russel

Life Isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal

The Scarlet Pimpernel - one of my favorites

Vurt by Jeff Noon

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein

Strangers, Dragon Tears, or False Memory- Dean Koontz

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye (It's an unconventional fairytale.)

After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell

Little, Big (by John Crowley)

Black Wine (by Candas Jane Dorsey)

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Brave New World - Huxley

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff

Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin

Regina's Song by David and Leigh Eddings

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "Song of Solomon", & all Harry Dresden

Borders of Inifinity - Lois McMasters Bujold

Michael Moorcock

Ringworld - Poul Anderson

Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen R. Donaldson

The Alchemist - Paul Coelho

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller

A Christmas Carol - Chars Dickens

Emma - Jane Austen

Holes - Louis Sacher

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

Written On The Body

The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Magus - John Fowles

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Persuasion - Jane Austen

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher

The Stand - Stephen King

The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson

Ulysses - James Joyce

Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte



Also, the correct order of the Steven Brust series:
Jhereg
Yendi
Teckla
Taltos
Pheonix
Athyra
Orca
Dragon
Issola

That's for reference later.

Comments

[melodiee.livejournal.com]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It's another dystopia where population is dwindling and women are valued for their ability to bear children. Barren women who've been affected by radiation poisoning work as laborers, and fertile women are pretty much prisoners of "Commanders," with whom they need to fornicate with to prove their worth. They're called Handmaids, and the story centers around Offred. It has really beautiful, lyrical writing. The whole story is a push for feminism.

I didn't like Catch 22 at all. It has its humorous moments, but the plot was really convoluted, characters seemed to get dropped off, and it was really just a blur to me. Maybe it's just too dense for me to understand.

Why is Persuasion on your list? I think it was written posthumously and is nowhere near as enjoyable as some of her other books. Basically just a Cinderella story.

I did like Holes and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I just grabbed the titles from all the posts I'd saved in my memories, things people on LJ had told me to read. Many of the books I've never heard of, or know nothing about yet. They're books *I* need to read, not books I think everyone else should.

The only book on the list that I have read was Wuthering Heights, a long long time ago.