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Lowell House, on the Feast of St. Volusian

Stealing that massive book meme from lacewood:

Bold the books you have read
Italicize the books the books you intend to read
Underline you had read to you as a child, or read as a child and cannot remember
Strike the books you didn't finish
Add three

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers 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. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller One of these days I'll have to finish it.
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier I liked the Laurence Olivier movie...
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 Sorcerer'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 Another book that I ought to finish.
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 Garcia Marquez
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
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
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 Susskind A friend recommended it to me over the summer. It's on my list of "to read next" books somewhere.
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 I don't know how likely it is that I'll ever manage to read it but I do want to attempt it someday.
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith I keep seeing serendip and moderntime mentioning this book.
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake Saw the BBC miniseries with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. It was awesome.
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 Garcia Marquez One of these days, I will read Marquez' complete opera.
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 worldserpent's review suggests that I'll probably find it disturbing, but I still want to give it a try.
109. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy I was very close to finishing, but I found it too depressing in the end.
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo I read the unabridged version in a five-day sprint where I literally did nothing else but read, eat and sleep. I still remember that time with fondness.
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 I read The Midwich Cuckoos on someone's recommendation, and it was delightfully creepy.
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, AS Byatt
130. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Only Atwood I've read is Oryx and Crake, but I want to read this one too someday.
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 lacewood's recommendation. Should check it out from Widener; I saw it there a few days ago.
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 Am ashamed to say I haven't read any Conrad.
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling I forget why I didn't finish this. I did like The Jungle Book though.
160. Cross Stitch (or Outlander), Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville Am also ashamed to say I haven't read any Melville either.
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, RD Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, MM Kaye This book is huge. I started the first chapter of the first volume way back in seventh grade and never had the courage to continue.
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, EB White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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 Definitely on the "to read next" list, after Foucault's Pendulum.
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 I think I got as far as Fagin...wait, no, I read up to the part where he's taken in by the gentleman-whose-name-begins-with-a-B-I-think.
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 Gross-Smith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, RL Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera One of these days...
192. Man and Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King, TH White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan I stopped after this book. Too fed up with Jordan's inability to finish a story.
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
208. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke I have this, but I don't think I've read it yet.
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka Just got tested on it today.
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles What happened to my favorite, Antigone?!
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny I keep seeing this in the SF section, and I keep wanting to buy it.
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon kaydeefalls's recommendation.
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein My mother took away the book while I was reading it instead of doing homework and I've never finished it.
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare Corrected the author on this one.
.270. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Of NIMH, Robert C O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, EL Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk Need to see the movie too someday.
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav Actually, this was an interesting albeit somewhat new-age-ish book; I just had to return it to the library before I could finish. One of these days I'll check it out again.
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace may be pretentious but he's still brilliant.
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, CJ Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams Stopped about halfway through the third volume in the series.
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton Who knows when I'll get around to it though...
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy (or Ramses the Damned), Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service Title looked familiar so I looked it up on Amazon to make sure. I really liked this book and its sequel, although it's hardly great children's fantasy.
347: The Oddkins, Dean R Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante But I haven't given up hope! I will finish it one day!
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, EM Forster ayatsujik put this book on her list of top five, if I remember correctly. I really liked Forster's other novels, Howards End and Room with a View, but I never got around to reading his masterpiece.
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large, J Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed, David Baddiel
351. Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun, Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Electric, Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg, Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson Now that I've discovered a taste for cyberpunk.
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke
368. Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson Moomintroll! <3
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O'Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, EL Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp, Madeleine L'Eengle I went on a L'Engle spree once. Didn't like this book much though.
386. Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte E Guest
388. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
391. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien L.P. keeps nagging at me to read this.
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernan
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini To my everlasting regret.
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
408. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
409. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
410. White Oleander, Janet Fitch
411. The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carroll
412. Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
413. Roots, Alex Haley
414. Kleopatra, Karen Essex
415. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
416. The Psycho-Ex Game, Merrill Markoe, Andy Prieboy
417. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
418. Deception Point, Dan Brown
419. Bookends, Jane Green
420. Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
421. Vectors, Michael P Kube-Mcdowell
422. Redwall, Brian Jacques
423. Millennium, Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto
424. Disgrace, JM Coetzee
425. Shardik, Richard Adams
426. Tehanu, Ursula Le Guin
427. Z - A Love Story, Vigdis Grimsdottir
428. Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
429. Don Quixote, Cervantes
430. Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
431. Collected poems, Anna Akhmatova
432. Breath, eyes, memory, Edwidge Danticat
433. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
434. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago
435. Not Before Sundown (or Troll - A Love Story), Johanna Sinisalo
436. Hannibal, Thomas Harris
437. The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
438. A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
439. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde
440. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking Took it out from the library but only got around to that bit where he explains inflation theory.
441. Complicity, Iain Banks
442. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro I really, really, really want to read this book! Augh.
443. The Bane of the Black Sword, Micheal Moorcock
444. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
445. Delta Of Venus, Anais Nin
446. Lost souls, Poppy Z Brite
447. Belle De Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl, Anonymous
448. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
449. City, Alessandro Baricco
450. Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
451. Thank you, Jeeves, PG Wodehouse Must read Wodehouse!
452. Tout à l'Ego (Everything for Ego), Tonino Benacquista
453. Betty Blue, Philippe Djian
454. Naive.Super, Erlend Loe
455. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
456. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I need to find a decent translation.
457. Krabat, Otfried Preußler
458. Lieutenant Hornblower, CS Forester
459. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
460. Drawing Blood, Poppy Z Brite
461. Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence Simply so I can understand what everyone's reacting to.
462. The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
463. The Matarese Circle, by Robert Ludlum
464. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
465. Searching for Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
466. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
467. The Flanders Panel, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
468. This Alien Shore, CS Friedman
469. Beauty, Robin McKinley
470. The Eight, Katherine Neville
471. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling
472. In this House of Brede, Rumer Godden
473. The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis
474. Reginald, HH Munro (Saki) I adore Saki.
475. Queen Lucia, EF Benson
476. A Shadow on the Glass, Ian Irvine
477. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
478. Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody
479. The Ancient Future, Traci Harding
480. The Surgeon, Tess Gerritse
481. Blindness, Jose Saramago I read the first five or so chapters but then never got around to finishing it.
482. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
483. Portrait in Sepia, Isabelle Allende
484. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
485. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
486. A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
487. Sammy's Hill, Kristin Gore
488. The Ordinary Princess, MM Kaye
489. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
490. Miss Manners Rescues Civilization, Judith Martin
491. Mythology, Edith Hamilton
492. Danse Macabre, Stephen King
493. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
494. The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera
495. Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
496. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
497. The Metemorphoses, Ovid
496. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Greg Keyes
497. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
498. This Side of Paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald
499. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
500. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
501. Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (and Other Observations), Al Franken
502. The Kalevala, assembled by Elias Lönnrot Oh, the Finnish saga collection. Need to read this.
503. The New Treasure Seekers, E. Nesbit
504. Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
505. Morality for Beautiful Girls, Alexander McCall Smith
506. Autumn Term, Antonia Forest
507. The Importance of Happiness, Lin Yutang
508. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
509. Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
510. A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
511. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
512. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
513. Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones
514. Gaudy Night, Dorothy L Sayers

Stats: 188/514 or just a little over a third of the list. Trends: strong on children's lit, fantasy and major classics.

There wasn't a single Sayers novel on the list before! Clearly this meme has not circulated sufficiently through my friends list. Hexwood isn't the strongest DWJ novel in terms of writing but I loved it nonetheless. ^_^

One final left to go before I can be completely free! Whee! Just took the final for the course on Job today. Two short essays, two long essays...I put the essay on J.B. off until the end, which naturally meant I was rushed for time. So I pretty much put aside any attempts at overarching organization or textual support and just plowed my way through the analysis. In other words, rhetoric instead of substance. The last paragraph turned into a bit of a rant on me criticizing MacLeish's position (I'm afraid the whole idea of "God needs human beings to believe in Him and love Him" sounds rather stale to me after having come across the idea in adulterated form a million times in fantasy novels), so I came out of the exam feeling self-satisfied even though I'm sure I'll lose points on that essay. In any case, it's over. I really enjoyed this class; it's exactly what I wanted from a Core course. At the beginning of the semester, I griped a bit about the tendency of the other students to parrot mainstream Christian thought without taking theological complexities into consideration, but by the middle of the course, I stopped feeling annoyed because really it was as if we were all in the same boat together. I think Kierkegaard was the turning point, when we were all feeling confused by the text, and suddenly it was no longer just carefully rehearsed opinions but real emotional reactions. I remember one student blurting out loud in the middle of section, "Wait a minute. I think I'm going crazy here, but I just had this thought!" and also another time, when another student finally snapped and said (in response to the question of whether we could be like Abraham sacrificing his only son), "To be honest, I'd be angry. I don't believe, no, I won't believe in a God who would ask something like that of me." I think Kierkegaard was the point where it stopped being just a class for everyone. Suddenly, these questions weren't just academic but personal concerns. I think all of us can say we've come out of this course with different ideas about our faith than we did going in, and isn't that what we want out of a college class in the end?

Yours &c.

Post-script: On an entirely different note, the most frequent type of comment I've been getting on Cyworld seems to be, "Wow, I didn't know you spoke Korean! I thought you only knew English!" (Er, in Korean, of course.) >_> Which led me to realize that yeah, for all intents and purposes, I am a second-generation Korean-American. I keep insisting to people that I was born in Korea, but considering I wasn't even a year old when my mother brought me here...I can't even really claim to be the same as aetherangelette who came at the age of four because she does in fact have fuzzy memories of Korea before coming to America, and I don't. There are many reasons why I'm fluent in Korean despite having spent all my life here--I live in New York, I go to a Korean church, my parents never speak to me in English, I'm taking Korean in college--but I guess you can say that there are people with similar circumstances who can't speak Korean at all or at least avoid trying. I don't know why I turned out differently, but I guess it never occurred to me before that people wouldn't expect me to know Korean. For what it's worth, most Korean-Americans I know, even second-generation, are more or less comfortable with speaking, although not usually reading and writing unless they've been attending 한글학교. Also, most Korean-Americans I know are also obsessed with their heritage. That includes me, although in high school, I was convinced that I was a banana. Which in retrospect was very, very far from the truth. -_-

Another weirdness to note: until I came to college and found myself meeting "Korean-Koreans" it never occurred to me to think of myself as Korean-American. >_> We always just called ourselves Korean. I still do think that way, even though I am now technically a citizen.

When conversing with a Korean adult (i.e. someone of an older generation), I will automatically speak in Korean even if they speak to me in English. When it comes to someone around my own age, well, I guess I start off in English but will reply to them in whatever language they use. More specifically, if they are 1.5-generation (i.e. came during high school or later), I'll eventually try to switch off to Korean. If they were born here, I'll stick to English but stick in Korean words. If they are close friends like aetherangelette, it's a free-for-all hodgepodge. ^_^ (Haha, some of our MSN conversations get quite bizarre.)

Comments

[angelyrique.livejournal.com]

I have fuzzy memories? I just have pictures! aha... .__.
and our conversations are to diiiie for.
kookie!

[ramble-corner.livejournal.com]

that is a looot of books ^^.
Hehe yes i seconded [or fourth] I Capture the castle and from this list I also got a lot of potentials as well. Hehe I think if i had done this , i wouldn't have been able to constrain myself to add just three to the list ^^

[issen4.livejournal.com]

Wow, 1) creator of this list was a Robert Jordan fan. 2) A Town Named Alice is really good.

[clocklike.livejournal.com]

*points* It's that book meme! Wow, you've read a lot. I haven't read most of them, but read some of the classics in Korean before. I'm typing up a open-recs post for books on my journal after this. XD

Ahaha, I guess I'm not the only surprised one to know that you spoke Korean? But it was because you spoke/wrote so well without any difficulty (and without errors). As for me, I'm not exactly the second generation, but not quite the 1.5 either (came here in 5th grade!). I remember everything in my school days back in Korea, but then am spending my teen years and so forth here. ^_^

[unrequitedangst.livejournal.com]

You are so well-read in comparison to me! *_* (Fanfiction hijacked my reading habits sometime around junior high. I never got it back except for the occasional cheap fling with bad science fiction, heh.)

If you ever get around to Atlas Shrugged, let me know what you think? For some reason, that book seems to be one of those books that people either idolize or loathe, and I've never quite been able to figure out why.

And Neuromancer! You absolutely have to read that -- have you read "Johnny Mnemonic" yet? (It's included in Burning Chrome, which is an anthology of Gibson's short cyberpunk, and it goes before Neuromancer chronology-wise.)

Too much Pratchett! Ahh!

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Neuromancer is terrible cyberpunk. Terrific opening, but once you leave Tokyo for computer-land it all goes downhill. A Passage to India is great. I'm reserving Lords of Light for after I know enough Hindu mythology to not be totally lost -- because what it is, really, is Hindu pantheon fanfiction.

Your tolerance for Hardy is much greater than my tolerance for Hardy. *salutes*