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A while ago while I was in tumblr jail, you posted that you had a masters in science fiction literature (unless you didn't, I have been known to be mistaken), and I am wondering, what do you consider 'important' works of science fiction? Like the science fiction literary canon? I am so curious. Feel free to ignore, I will not harass you.
Yes! I do. I can tell you the ones that I was assigned (I'm afraid that the list skews extremely male and (especially) white).
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930) and Star Maker (1937) [You can probably add Odd John (1935) to this list]
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) [You can probably add From the Earth to the Moon (1865)]
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1897) [Though you can probably go ahead and add The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901)]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
Catherine Burdekin (writing as Murray Constantine), Swastika Night (1937)
Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (1920)
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) [You can probably add the first three Foundation novels here as well]
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921)
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973) [Add: Childhood's End (1953) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951) [add: The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)]
H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) [add The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)]
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956)
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) [Probably Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) too, depending on, you know, how much of Heinlein's bullshit you can take]
J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) [Also, The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966)]
Phillip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and several of his short stories]
Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1969)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) [Also The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)]
Brian Aldiss, Supertoys series
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992) [Also Green Mars and Blue Mars]
They also included Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (2004), but I personally think you'd be better off reading some of his Culture novels
Other ones that I might add (not necessarily my favourite, just what I would consider the most influential):
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
Matsamune Shiro, Ghost in the Shell (1989-91)
Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1982-1990)
Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood (1987-89) and Parable of the Sower (1993)
Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (1971)
Hector Garman Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez, The Eternaut (1957-59)
Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2008)
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)
William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1985) [Please take this one from a library]
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (1952-68)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
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How many have you read?
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit
My total: 43/100
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The 'Timeless Classics' series by RBA stands as a commendable collection of 85 literary masterpieces, predominantly drawn from English literature, with notable inclusions such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina from diverse cultural landscapes. This curated anthology transcends geographical boundaries, making its enriching content accessible not only in various European countries under the names of ''Storie Senza Tempo'', ''Romans Eternels'', and ''Novelas Eternas'' but also in South America. RBA's commitment to delivering these cultural gems on a global scale reflects a dedication to fostering a profound appreciation for literature across diverse audiences.
Here are all the titles of the following collection: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence
Jane Austen - Emma
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias
Henry James - Washington Square
Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls
Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)
Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)
Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville
Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
Henry James - The Wings of the Dove
Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Jane Austen - Juvenilia
George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)
George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)
George Sand - Nanon
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree
Edith Wharton - Summer
George Sand - Indiana
Henry James - The Bostonians
George Eliot - Silas Marner
Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)
Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)
Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep
Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple
Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
Fanny Burney - Evelina
George Sand - Little Fadette
Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House
Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I
Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II
Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana
Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest
Edith Wharton - The Cliff
Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality
Louisa May Alcott - Moods
Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Story Girl
Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth
Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
Matilde Serao - Fantasy
Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes
Emilia Pardo Bazán - Sunstroke
Ann Radcliffe - The Romance Of The Forest
Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal
Charlotte Bronte - Villette
Sybil G. Brinton - Old Friends and New Fancies
Edith Wharton - The Bunner
Sisters Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out
Margaret Oliphant - The Chronicles of Carlingford
Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist
Virginia Woolf - Day and Night
Guy de Maupassant - Our Heart
Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)
Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 2)
Elizabeth Gaskell - Half a Lifetime Ago
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Preliminary Round Winners
Round 1: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Eliminations: none
Round 2: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Eliminations: Legend by Marie Lu
Round 3: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Eliminations: none
Round 4: Little House by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Eliminations: Lux by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Round 5: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Eliminations: none
Round 6: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
Eliminations: Last Survivors by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Round 7: Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
Eliminations: none
Round 8: The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Eliminations: none
Round 9: Nevermoor by Jessica Townshend
Eliminations: none
Round 10: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Eliminations: none
Round 11: American Girl by Various Authors
Eliminations: Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Round 12: Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol
Eliminations: none
Round 13: Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
Eliminations: none
Round 14: Tiebreaker ongoing
Eliminations: none
Round 15: Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Eliminations: none
Round 16: Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
Eliminations: none
Round 17: The Hardy Boys by Franklin D. Dixon
Eliminations: none
Round 18: Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Eliminations: none
Round 19: Ever After High by Shannon Hale
Eliminations: none
Round 20: The Icemark Chronicles by Stuart Hill
Eliminations: none
Round 21: Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
Eliminations: none
Round 22: My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville
Eliminations: none
Round 23: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Eliminations: Killer Unicorns by Diana Peterfreund
Round 24: Upside-Down Magic by Emily Jenkins, Sarah Miynowski, and Lauren Myracle
Eliminations: none
Round 25: Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Eliminations: none
Round 26: Fairy Wings by E. D. Baker
Eliminations: Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill
Round 27: The Puppy Place by Ellen Miles
Eliminations: none
Round 28: Animal Ark by Lucy Daniels
Eliminations: none
Round 29: A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
Eliminations: none
Round 30: Ten Kids, No Pets by Ann M. Martin
Eliminations: none
Round 31: Magic Puppy by Sue Bentley
Eliminations: none
Round 32: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Eliminations: The Country Child by Alison Uttley, Corydon by Tobias Druitt
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speaking (as i am on discord) of hodgson's family:
Distant Aunt Of Some Sort. margaret porteous, née hodgson, wife of beilby porteous, bishop of london. one of hodgson's brothers was named after him.
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Whooohooo!!! For the Bookish Asks,
A S T Y & Z
Thank you, love!!! Off to answer yours now!!
A. Author You’ve Read The Most Books From
Frances Hodgson Burnett, followed closely by C.S. Lewis and Rick Riordan!
S. Series You Started and Need to Finish
I'm still in the middle of Trials of Apollo, so that one!
T. Three Of Your All-Time Favorite Books
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett, So You're Single by Edith Margaret Clarkson, and, of course, the Bible!
Y. Your Latest Book Purchase
I uh. Listen, okay. Day after easter. Four of us siblings in town, descending upon Barnes and Noble with money in our bank accounts and, as always, a keen ability to justify each other's purchases. In total, the four of us spent two hundred? three hundred dollars? I got a bunch of supplemental Riordanverse books (Camp Jupiter Classified, Demigod Files, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes and Greek Gods, and the graphic novel edition of Sea of Monsters) to read once I finish Trials of Apollo, and I also picked up a lovely copy of Alice and Wonderland (for my collection of copies of Alice and Wonderland 😁)
Z. ZZZ-Snatcher (last book that kept you up WAY late)
uhhhhh, I think it was the first Trials of Apollo book. The last few chapters, which I made it to around twelve-thirty, re-introduce one of my blorbos from the previous series, so every seven seconds I had to stop and stim for a couple seconds (I'm 80% sure I might've thrown the book or slapped myself in the face on more than one occasion during this time.) and yeah. After I finished I was just so excited I couldn't sleep at all for a bit 😁
thanks for the asks, love!
bookish asks!
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Six actors who's names share a common root
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August 2023 Wrap Up
Another month of 2023 gone! And honestly, I'm not sad to see it go. August is a difficult month for me now. It marked the one year anniversary of my brother passing away. Luckily I had some good books to get me through.
Books Read: 7
While I didn't read as much as I did last month, I did read plenty of great books. My favorite was, of course, Painted Devils, the sequel to Little Thieves. I also had a lovely time rereading The Secret Garden, and I FINALLY finished The Little Friend! It only took me four tries! My least favorite was definitely Literary Women, which I read for my dissertation. It wasn't awful, but for a book called Literary Women, it sure talked about literary men an awful lot...
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 5 stars ®
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black - 3.5 stars
Literary Women by Ellen Moers - 2 stars
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen - 5 stars
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 4 stars
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - 4 stars ®
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - 4.5 stars
On Tumblr:
We've got a bit of everything here this month: some lists, some quotes, some photos. The one good thing about August is that my birthday is during it, so naturally I got some new books! 😁
July Wrap Up
Book Photography: 30th Birthday Book Haul
Book Quotes: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Book Quotes: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
Book Quotes: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
Cat Photography: When mom interrupts your snuggle time to take a photo
aliteraryprincess' Books with Women's Names in the Title
aliteraryprincess' Books with Men's Names in the Title
On YouTube:
And there's quite a lot here too, including two videos for a new series on what I had to read during my PhD coursework.
Did I Read These 30 Classics Before I Turned 30?
40 Classics I Want to Read Before I Turn 40
July and August Book Haul
July Wrap Up - 15 books!!!
Currently Reading 8/14/23
September TBR - Shorty September, Shaketember, & more!
What I Read for My PhD in English Literature: Animals in Postcolonial Literature
The George Eliot Project: The Mill on the Floss
What I Read for My PhD in English Literature: Victorian Gothic Literature
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BBC Big Read List
Many years ago, I first started tallying the books from the BBC Big Read list, seeing how my reading and interests correllate. I don't take it as the "one truth" on which books are worth reading or "good", I just find it interesting which ones I agree with. Let's go!
Out of the BBC's "The Big Read" list from 2005, which ones did you read, plan to read or started to read, but didn't finish? The ones I read are fat, the ones I still want to read are in italics, the ones I started but didn't finish are crossed out and all the other ones I have either never heard of before or never wanted to read them.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (and I thought it was horrible. But I wanted to finish it!)
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (and I love it)
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (didn't finish it in school but want to try again)
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102.Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (I've read excepts for uni)
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (I stopped after the toilet-scene. Too disgusting)
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
Read: 57
Want to read: 60
Some of the books to read I know very little about except the title and that they're classics, some others I know a lot about (and I even have "Men at Arms" on my TBR pile for when the mood strikes me next). I like reading classics once in a while, but especially older ones I can't read too often, I need to be in the right mood for that style of writing.
The last time I updated this was in 2015 and I had read 44 and wanted to read 72 - so 15 books in 9 years xD Like I said, it's not a challenge or a goal to read all of them, just a convenient way of keeping track of which classics I want to read eventually.
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The deal - Part 3
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The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.
1. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
4. Harry Potter series
5. To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë (TBR)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His dark material - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (DNF)
14. Complete works of Shakespeare (TBR)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (DNF)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (TBR)
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (TBR)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yan Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (DNF)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (TBR)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -time - Mark Haddon
60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (TBR)
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (DNF)
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (DNF)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (TBR)
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (TBR)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (DNF)
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do you have any fiction recs that aren't necessarily fantasy? i'm in a bit of a reading slump.
Yeah! Do you like sci-fi?
Some of these are teen fiction or homeschool assigned books, I hope that's ok. I don't know what you've already read, so.
Sci-Fi:
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children Series) - Margaret Peterson Haddix
I, Robot (the story collection) - Isaac Asimov
Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein
The Last Thing I Remember (Homelanders series) - Andrew Klavan
The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
Historical Fiction
The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope
Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher
The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Great Brain - John D. Fitzgerald
Classic:
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
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The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Homer Price - Robert McKloskey
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Broadway musicals and their source material
Oklahoma! – Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931 play by Lynn Riggs
Carousel – Liliom, 1909 play by Ferenc Molnár
South Pacific – Tales of the South Pacific, 1947 book by James Michener
Guys and Dolls – two short stories by Damon Runyon
The King and I – Anna and the King of Siam, 1944 novel by Margaret Landon
The Pajama Game – 7½ Cents, 1953 novel by Richard Bissell
My Fair Lady – Pygmalion, 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw
The Sound of Music – The Story of the Trapp Family, 1949 memoir of the real-life Maria von Trapp
Camelot – The Once and Future King, 1958 novel by T.H. White; Arthurian legend
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – 1952 book of the same name by Shepherd Mead
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – plays by Ancient Roman writer Plautus
Gypsy – Gypsy: A Memoir, by Gypsy Rose Lee
Oliver! – Oliver Twist, 19th-century novel by Charles Dickens
Hello, Dolly! – The Merchant of Yonkers, 1938 play by Thornton Wilder
She Loves Me – Parfumerie, 1937 play by Miklós László
Fiddler on the Roof – Tevye and His Daughters, 1890s short stories by Sholem Aleichem
Man of La Mancha – Don Quixote, 17th-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Mame – Auntie Mame, 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis
Cabaret – I Am a Camera, 1951 play by John Van Druten; Goodbye to Berlin, 1939 book by Christopher Isherwood
Two Gentlemen of Verona – Shakespeare play of the same name
A Little Night Music – “Smiles of a Summer Night,” 1955 film by Ingmar Bergman
The Wiz – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum
Chicago – 1926 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Annie – “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip
Sweeney Todd – 1973 play of the same name by Christopher Bond; Victorian-era penny dreadfuls
42nd Street – 1932 novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes
Nine – “8½” a film by Federico Fellini
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – the Biblical story of Joseph
Cats – Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 1939 poetry collection by T.S. Eliot
La Cage aux Folles – 1973 play of the same name by Jean Poiret
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – novel of the same name by Charles Dickens
Les Misérables – 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo
The Phantom of the Opera – 1910 novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux
Into the Woods – Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tale characters
The Secret Garden – 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Once on This Island – My Love, My Love: Or, The Peasant Girl, 1985 novel by Rosa Guy
Kiss of the Spider Woman – 1976 novel of the same name by Manuel Puig
Passion – Fosca, 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti; 1981 film “Passione d’Amore”
Beauty and the Beast – French fairy tale recorded by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Sunset Boulevard – 1950 film of the same name
Rent – La Bohème, opera by Giacomo Puccini
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