Book Meme

Stolen from Marg

Review the following list of books. Boldface the books you've read, italicize those you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, put an asterisk beside the ones on your bookshelves, and place brackets around the ones you’ve never even heard of.

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling)
The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
*Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (George Orwell)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien) - I tried reading this, but it was too dry.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
*Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
*Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
1984 (George Orwell)
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) - I started this one too, but it wasn't as good as everyone hyped it up to be, so I stopped after a few chapters.
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
*Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
*Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
*The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) - Ditto on starting and not liking this one.
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Dune (Frank Herbert) - I saw the miniseries though.
Sula (Toni Morrison)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) - Ugh! I hated the movie!
The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith) - I might be disappointed as I usually am by critically acclaimed authors. I guess I'm not sophisticated enough.
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)