the big bad book list
...has entered the blog several times in the past couple of weeks. So what better to post than the list itself? Comment if you like, on the good, the bad, additions or subtractions. (NB: the books are in no particular order of desperation to read.)
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
4. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
6. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand
9. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
11. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
12. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
13. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
14. Emma by Jane Austen
15. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
16. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
17. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
18. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
19. Paradise Lost by John Milton
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
21. King Solomon's Mines by H.R. Haggard
22. Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
23. Portraits by Michael Kimmelman
24. The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
25. The Christie Caper by Carolyn Hart
26. Cryptonomicon (and the rest of the series) by Neal Stephenson
27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
28. The Cavalier in White by Marcia Muller
29. The Agony and the Ecstasy by John Irving
30. The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
31. The Three Musketeers series by Alexandre Dumas
32. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
35. Everything Graham Greene ever wrote.
36. Persuasion by Jane Austen
37. A Room with a View by E.M. Forester
38. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
39. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarkson
40. The rest of the Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett (4 thru 8 left...)
41. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
42. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
43. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
44. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
46. Mort by Terry Pratchett (or really just anything by Terry Pratchett, just to see what all the fuss is about)
47. America: the Book by Jon Stewart
48. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-5 by Leo Marks
49. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
50. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
51. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
52. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
53. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
54. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
55. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
56. Books 12 & 13 of the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
57. This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles
58. Ibid: a Life by Mark Dunn
59. Lucifer's Shadow by David Hewson
60. Landscape of Lies by Peter Watson
61. Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis (and series)
62. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (and series)
63. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
64. The Intelligencer: a Novel by Leslie Silbert
65. Codex by Lev Grossman
66. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
67. A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray
68. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
69. Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson
70. The Complete Claudine by Colette
71. The Unburied by Charles Palliser
72. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
73. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
74. The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks by James Anderson
75. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
76. The League of Extrordinary Gentleman by Alan Moore
77. The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith
78. Ex Libris by Ross King
79. My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
80. Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
81. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
82. The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
83. Ruse Vol. 3 by Scott Beatty
84. The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell
85. The Egyptian Jukebox: a Conundrum by Nick Bantock
86. The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
87. Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
88. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
89. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville
90. The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark
91. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
92. Waiting by Ha Jin
93. The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley
94. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
95. The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
96. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
97. The Eight by Daniel Handler
98. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak
And most likely many, many more that I can't think of right now. (But dear me, isn't that enough?)
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
4. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
6. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand
9. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
11. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
12. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
13. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
14. Emma by Jane Austen
15. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
16. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
17. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
18. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
19. Paradise Lost by John Milton
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
21. King Solomon's Mines by H.R. Haggard
22. Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
23. Portraits by Michael Kimmelman
24. The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
25. The Christie Caper by Carolyn Hart
26. Cryptonomicon (and the rest of the series) by Neal Stephenson
27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
28. The Cavalier in White by Marcia Muller
29. The Agony and the Ecstasy by John Irving
30. The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
31. The Three Musketeers series by Alexandre Dumas
32. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
35. Everything Graham Greene ever wrote.
36. Persuasion by Jane Austen
37. A Room with a View by E.M. Forester
38. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
39. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarkson
40. The rest of the Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett (4 thru 8 left...)
41. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
42. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
43. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
44. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
46. Mort by Terry Pratchett (or really just anything by Terry Pratchett, just to see what all the fuss is about)
47. America: the Book by Jon Stewart
48. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-5 by Leo Marks
49. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
50. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
51. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
52. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
53. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
54. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
55. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
56. Books 12 & 13 of the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
57. This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles
58. Ibid: a Life by Mark Dunn
59. Lucifer's Shadow by David Hewson
60. Landscape of Lies by Peter Watson
61. Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis (and series)
62. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (and series)
63. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
64. The Intelligencer: a Novel by Leslie Silbert
65. Codex by Lev Grossman
66. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
67. A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray
68. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
69. Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson
70. The Complete Claudine by Colette
71. The Unburied by Charles Palliser
72. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
73. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
74. The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks by James Anderson
75. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
76. The League of Extrordinary Gentleman by Alan Moore
77. The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith
78. Ex Libris by Ross King
79. My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
80. Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
81. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
82. The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
83. Ruse Vol. 3 by Scott Beatty
84. The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell
85. The Egyptian Jukebox: a Conundrum by Nick Bantock
86. The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
87. Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
88. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
89. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville
90. The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark
91. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
92. Waiting by Ha Jin
93. The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley
94. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
95. The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
96. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
97. The Eight by Daniel Handler
98. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak
And most likely many, many more that I can't think of right now. (But dear me, isn't that enough?)
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