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Hair---- combed straight or curled?
Dmitri Shostakovich----Second Waltz
Negotiation is now almost mandatory.
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[~]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x ]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [#]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [~]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame []
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
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 [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
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 [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth []
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon []
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker []
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro []
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [x]
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry []
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
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I usually get interested in something in history, or in personal improvement, etc. Then I find out what book(s) are considered the "best" in that area by those who live and work in that area. Finally, I find the one best book, and bury myself in it until I just about "wear it."
As for who is my favorite author, that is almost impossible, but Plato, Nietzsche, Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets, William Butler Yeats, Tennyson, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Patanjali, Laozi, Frederich Hoelderlin, Schiller, Dante Alighieri, and many, many others. It really depends on what area I am caught up in at the time.
I have been having a lot of fun recently trying to get through as many Agatha Christie books as I can. She is the lady who invented Miss Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Harley Quinn. They always challenge your inner detective.
Stephen Overholser. Shadow Valley Rising."
Just finished this and loved it. It is about the Civil War out West near Denver and the Cheyenne. It really shows the human tragedy a civil war is.
Dostoyevsky. The Brother's Karamatzov.
A re-read for me. Jesus Himself confronts The Grand Inquisitor on the merits of the human race.
Taxi Driver, 1976:
"You talking to me?"
Supporting---Re-enforcing