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