I'm curious. Mark the ones you have read. Which did you love? What's not worth the paper it's written on IYHO?

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights - I think I read this in high school. I evidently don't remember much of it.
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary - I'm pretty sure I read this, but I honestly don't remember.
A Tale of Two Cities - I know I have this one at home, and I may have read it, but I'd have to skim over it again to remember for sure.
Jane Eyre - I read this for the same undergrad lit course as Pride and Prejudice (I think).
The Name of the Rose - I read this just two weeks ago, and I really liked it.
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice - I read this for an undergrad lit course. It was a fun read, especially since we compared it to the much more modern but surprisingly similar Bridget Jones's Diary.
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - I was given this book as a gift last summer, but I haven't read it yet. I am looking forward to reading it though.
Atlas Shrugged - I have this one, but I haven't read it yet. I do want to read it though, since Rand's Anthem is possibly my favourite book in the world.
Foucault's Pendulum - I'm about halfway through this one.
Dracula - I've read it, because of my love of vampires, but it didn't make a big impression on me.
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - I bought this one last month and I'm very much looking forward to reading it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - I loved this book. Wilde writes beautifully.
Dune - I started reading it, but couldn't stay interested.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead - see Atlas Shrugged
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - I have it, but have not read it yet.
Oliver Twist - I read this quite a few years ago - the edition I have is over a hundred years old and seriously falling to pieces - I remember liking it.
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe - I remember reading this when I was a child, I liked it.
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners - I've started reading this, but haven't finished it yet.
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover - I have it but haven't read it yet. I am reading Women in Love by Lawrence at the moment though.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables - I love it.
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I bought this per Booger's recommendation but I haven't read it yet.
Treasure Island - I read this as a child... I remember I liked it.
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Listed below are all the ones I've read. Unfortunately I don't remember most of them since I was under the age of 10 when I read them. My thirst for reading began a little young, and I spent many hours in the library as a child. I began reading Stephen King religiously by the time I was in fourth grade and quit the classics. Now I just don't seem to have to time to read anymore. I recall liking these books though, and still have a copy of The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck was a wonderful author and I enjoyed all his books.

A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
The Grapes of Wrath
The Three Musketeers
Oliver Twist
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
Treasure Island
The War of the Worlds

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What about you, Lilith?

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

I'm completely embarassed by what I have not read. My children have read more of them than I have. I grew up in a really rural setting when I should have been introduced to these. Now I read kid's lit.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West~ I am halfway through
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces~ remember very little
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli~ grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Theater History Class
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds

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Thanks Lil. You just made me realize that while I, like most people, always state "the book was better than the movie", find that after many years, the movie seem to be more memorable.

I recall reading a number from your list but most were 'required reading'. As you know, most of my reading now is more technical and I never have enough time to do as much as I'd like there.

Here's the ones I do recall reading.


Wuthering Heights
War and Peace
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
The Canterbury Tales
Great Expectations
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (only followed the good series)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and The Fury
Brave New World

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (does knowing the Wicked Witch of the North count? )
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
Gulliver's Travels
The Inferno
Oliver Twist
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The War of the Worlds Only the movie

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Sort of embarrassed that I haven't read more of these.

For the most part, all of the ones listed, I did enjoy. There really isn't any of them that didn't like.


Catch-22
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov ~ Loved it!!!
Ulysses
War and Peace ~ Hey, I read over 3/4 of it so I'll claim I've read it!
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Was a very difficult read for me.
Jane Eyre ~ Enjoyed it very much!
The Iliad
The Canterbury Tales
Great Expectations
Atlas Shrugged ~ Been working on this one for months now.
The Grapes of Wrath ~ Loved it!!!
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Inferno ~ Loved it!!!!
The Fountainhead ~ Perhaps the best development of characters of anything I've ever read.
A Clockwork Orange ~ Loved it!!
The Scarlet Letter ~ Liked it but expected more.
In Cold Blood ~ Loved it!!!
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf

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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac

Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"

Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote: the first book is well worth the effort.
The Odyssey: I have enjoyed it more than once.
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace: I cannot do the Russians
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose: An enjoyable read.
Moby Dick: Yes!
Emma
The Iliad: Sing, goddess ...
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice: Good stuff.
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales: Timeless.
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged: see The Fountainhead.
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula: Did not get through to me.
The Grapes of Wrath: A must read
Frankenstein: see Dracula
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World: Huxley's dystopia should be required reading for all who love liberty.
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West[B]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
[B]Dune: Frank Herbert Rules!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels: Recommended.
The Three Musketeers:
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead: Rand Rocks!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist: Dickens needed an editor.
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe:
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Harsh, nasty, and spellbinding!
The Once and Future King: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night.
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: If enough people read it, we may save our so called civilization.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood:
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night.
Beowulf
The Aeneid:
A Farewell to Arms: I enjoyed it.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Beauty in prose.
Treasure Island: Mo’ good bedtime stories.
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds: A good read.

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Eudaimonia

Oh!!! Forgot one! I read Brave New World last year!!!!! I loved it!

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Been a long time since I read any fiction book, just for the fun of it. Some of these I think I might have read, or maybe I just read the Classic Comics version...

A Tale of Two Cities - it was the best of books, it was the worst of books
The Canterbury Tales - read this when I was old enough to snicker at the Miller's Tale...modern translation, of course.
Great Expectations - req. in jr high, I think
Memoirs of a Geisha - just sold MIL's copy on ebay, was I supposed to read it?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - read it, liked it better than the movie.
David Copperfield - my aunt had me read this when I was way too young to absorb a tome of this size, but it did leave me with a lifelong appreciation of Mr Dickens. (BTW, I also read the book version of A Christmas Carol)

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury TalesThe Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula
The Grapes of Wrath
Frankenstein
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New WorldQuicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dune
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Once and Future King
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down
Beowulf
The Aeneid
A Farewell to Arms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds
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Almost all of those I have read have been since leaving school..... my setting was also VERY rural and we didnt' really have a required reading list.

Speaking of "required reading," does anyone recall "Flowers For Algernon?" It was a fantastic book that I had to read in 4th grade and again in 7th grade (apparently the reading comprehension level went down). You may know it as "Charlie" but either way, it was great.

If anyone's down for camping and survival living, "Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature and Survival For Children" is a fantastic read....especially for adults. It may not be a classic, but you'll never be in the middle of nowhere feeling like a dumbass after learning some techniques.

I especially like reading psychology books and am currently studying a few books in that field, to include hypnotism. Who am I to say they're good though...I read crap about quantum physics and manage to understand it for 1/2 a day.

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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller

I remember reading Flowers for Algernon!!! I think it was for grade 7. We had watched the movie after finishing the book.

We also had to read Shane, The Pearl, The Cay... I don't remember which was for grade 7 and which for grade 8 though.

(I went to French schools. Our first English classes were in grade 3. In high school though, our English courses were the same as in any of the English schools of the province, and we wrote the same provincial exams in English as every other 12th grade student in Nova Scotia.)

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.