Janet's Progress

[Janet]

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
15 Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miduel de Cervantes
18 The Bible by Various
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce
21 The quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis .Caroll
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The way we live now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The colour Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38 Frankenstein by Mary Selley
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
45 One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [close]

[[deleted user]]

Hey, glad to see you got to make your own list :) Hey we have quite a lot of books in common on the to-read list, maybe we can help each other going through the list :)

[Melissa (ladybug)]

:D Looks like a good list of books read. I can really recommend anything by Dickens or Twain and also Robinson Crusoe. These were some of my favorite books. :D What did you think of "Lord of the Flies"? I have not read it yet, but my mother told me she hated it in HS. Seems it is standard assinment in HS. O_0?

[Peter]

I read it at school too, way back in 1983! I've read it several times since and would certainly recommend it. It's thought provoking and very well written.

[Janet]

Melissa wrote: ":D Looks like a good list of books read. I can really recommend anything by Dickens or Twain and also Robinson Crusoe. These were some of my favorite books. :D What did you think of "Lord of th..."

sorry to take so long to reply--did not find my list again until today. I loved "Lord of the Flies." I have also watched the old film a few times and like it as well. I have two sons, one of which got lost on local river at night with a few others this summer thus having their own Lord of the Flies moment! They were found before they became savage...