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message 1: by Irissska (last edited Dec 04, 2012 12:59PM) (new)

Irissska | 12 comments Ok, I am a new one, so now I just strike off the books I already have read (mostly in my childhood, I was a real bookworm then))).

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien Have - READ
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - READ
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare - READ
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald - READ
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
15 Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
18 The Bible by Various - READ
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce
21 The quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - READ
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll - READ
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - READ
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The way we live now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The colour Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38 Frankenstein by Mary Selley
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift - READ
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - READ
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe - READ
45 One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - READ
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

That makes 11 or 12, not many.((( It is time to catch up with other guys of the group!!!


message 2: by Irissska (last edited Jan 28, 2015 08:22AM) (new)

Irissska | 12 comments I am leaving the previous list without any changes and will use this one to see my progress. this is just to see what i had in the beginning.

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien Have - READ
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - READ
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - READ
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - READ in Aug 13
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare - READ
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald - READ
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - READ in May, 2013
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
15 Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
18 The Bible by Various - READ In fact I read children's version several times when i was small (it was much better in fact) and also read 1/4 of the book in 2014 but couldn't finish it and though I am a baptized orthodox christian, I have found that I don't like the idea of Christianity any more and other religions as well and the book partially contributed to this feeling. I cross out this book because I am surely not going to read it.
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce
21 The quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - READ
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman - READ
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - READ in June 2013
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll - READ
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - READ
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The way we live now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The colour Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel - READ
38 Frankenstein by Mary Selley - READ in Sept 2013
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift - READ
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - READ
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe - READ
45 One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey - READ
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - READ
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeREAD


message 3: by Irissska (last edited Jul 29, 2013 06:39AM) (new)

Irissska | 12 comments What a lazy girl! 4 months and only two books from the list are read. Though "Materials" is like three books, isn't it?:-)
At this speed I will read all the books in six years. :-)hopefully...


message 4: by Irissska (new)

Irissska | 12 comments I've just finished Life of Pi. I've never thought I will love it so much. I liked it more than Pride and Prejudice and His Dark Materials (i am speaking only about those books which I have read recently).


message 5: by Irissska (last edited Jan 28, 2015 08:13AM) (new)

Irissska | 12 comments 20/50... so slow...


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