Friday, September 14, 2012

books

my bookworm side had been revived! and i've been so giddy about it for the past days, i miss the high you feel when you read... i stopped reading for almost 6 years because of an incident with an ex-boss before which i allowed to affect me (yeah, loser over here! hehe)... but now that i got the groove back, will definitely not let anything stop me again. 
When reading a book you never know where the journey will take you. (Photo & words from The Book Connections)

...and just because i love to blog and create lists, let me have this little space for the books that i've read, watched the movie version, started but didn't get to finish yet, and those i wish to cover. this will be a dynamic blogpost since i will be updating this list for read books (specially since i can not remember some books iv read already), additions to the list and whatever... :-) 

Read
1) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
2) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

3) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
5) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
6) Things Fall apart - Chinua Achebe 
7) The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles) - Anne Rice
8) Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles) - Anne Rice
9) Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles) - Anne Rice
10) Servant of the Bones - Anne Rice





Read and Watched the Movie Version
1) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
2) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

3) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
4) Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles) - Anne Rice
5) Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles) - Anne Rice




Started but remains in the "in process" zone

1) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2) The Bible
3) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
4) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
5) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

6) Lord of the Flies - William Golding

7) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
8) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
9) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
10) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
11) The Violin - Anne Rice
12) Mayfair Witches - Anne Rice




Books I plan to read in this lifetime
1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
3) Wuthering Heights
4) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
5) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 
6) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
8) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
9) Complete Works of Shakespeare
10) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
11) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
12) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 
13) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
14) Middlemarch - George Eliot
15) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
16) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 
17) The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
18) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
19) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
20) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 
22) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
23) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 
24) Emma -Jane Austen 
25) Persuasion - Jane Austen
26) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
27) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
28) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
29) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
30) Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
31) Animal Farm - George Orwell
32) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
34) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 
35) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 
36) Atonement - Ian McEwan
37) Life of Pi - Yann Martel  
38) Dune - Frank Herbert 
39) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
40) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
41) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
42) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
44) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
45) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
47) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
48) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
49) On The Road - Jack Kerouac 
50) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
51) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 
52) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
53) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
54) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
55) Dracula - Bram Stoker
56) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
57) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
58) Ulysses - James Joyce
59) The Inferno - Dante
60) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
61) Germinal - Emile Zola
62) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
63) Possession - AS Byatt
64) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 
65) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
66) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
67) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
68) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
69) Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
70) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
71) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
72) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
73) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
74) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
75) Watership Down - Richard Adams
76) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
77) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
78) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
79) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
80) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

81) Lasher (Mayfair Witches Chronicle) - Anne Rice
82) Taltos - Anne Rice

4 comments:

  1. oh, you've got great list of books here!
    can i borrow? haha

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    1. sure! book exchange? haha! but i dont have all of these yet... :-)

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  2. You have a long list! Mahilig ka pala sa classics ha :) Yay for us who are back into reading :)

    I hope you join me when I launch my book swapping site. Di ko pa lang madiskartehan paggawa eh. Dont know where to start. hehe :)

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  3. Nice choice of books! :)

    Cheers,
    Mac
    http://daughtersofsummer.blogspot.com

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