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Just as a gamer has a complete list of "games you must have played or life sucks" I have found a list of "books you must have read or life sucks". And indeed, most of these books, though I'm missing some very important novels here, will enrich your life.
I'm not talking about those silly Dutch "I can work magic with words but no one understands a frigging word I'm writing" literature, I'm talking classic novels, works that make you fall silent, think and ponder about what is wrong or right, and eventually reshape morality and ideas about life.
Instructions:
Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible a boring book, though
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman aka: God's not present, may I be of service whilst I cause havoc all over the universe?
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier a complex book about a complex woman with too many complexities that is simply too complex to read
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I suggest you read the simplistic version... trust me
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
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
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne – TIGGER! My hero!
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
49 read, though I'm missing some very important classic novels:
Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Earth Sea – Ursula le Guin
Das Kapital – Karl Marx
Huckleberry Finn – Marc Twain
The adventures of Tom Sawyer – Marc Twain
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Hunchback of the Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Reindeer girl – Margaret Ruthin
Shogun – James Clavell
King Rat – James Clavell
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding "Pocks on you all!" said by a very rich man in the Victorian Era... imagine that
Dewey, the librarian cat – Vicky Myron
Bravo Two Zero – Andy McNab
And may have I forgot some titles…
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ah, life, sweet life...
The broad got punished! Heard it this morning, full punishment is yet to be determined. Unfortunately, because of the events, I am not to receive my drivers licence back... yet. I have to pass the test again T_T oh well... I hope she's paying, for she ruined a lot. "He who plots to destroy the life of someone else, should dig a grave for himself..." aka: if you punch someone in the face, expect to be punched back.
so... back to life ^_^ time for lunch, plotting and planning when to take up driver's lessons again and a cup of coffee with a very good film: "The King's Speech" followed by "The Eagle" ^_^
so tell me... how's your life? that must be way more interesting than this literature list and my life...
Greetings
Mommy
Cheerful 
For some reason I really loved 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the book is super long but once you start reading the story of certain family you cannot stop. The message of book is sad, though it taught me important lesson.
I certainly agree about King Rat by James Clavel. Whenever somebody tells me he cannot change I always point out to that book. Changes are easy and natural for people if they only care to assimiliate to the situation.
Glad to hear she was sentenced *highfive* And hope you're going to be paid back for the driving lessons.
As for my life.. my relationship ended. It was toxin so I'm relieved, but I still sometimes catch myself wondering about the guy and 'what if' - though obviously it's silly and there'll be no sequel to this relationship. I learnt my lesson hard. I'm sorry about the wasted time, the 3 weeks in febuary were simply cut off from my life.
Glad it's over and I'll not waste anymore of my life with him. x'D
(..and I'm feeding my chinchillas with pop-corn. They are adorable <3).
Thank you again, it's for the best she banged her head against the wall. Mostly for her, and also for me and my sis. Though she did something right: sis and I are both on the same line now ^^
awww, a shame that someone didn't want to work on a relationship with a lady kind and friendly as you. You deserve better and in this case, even though I'm hardly aware of what had happened, I believe you've made the right choice. It's you in the first place, and without you, there's no us in a relationship.
Chinchillas *v* so cute! ^_^
It's v.important to have support from your siblings.Hope the situation, though sorrowful will bring you two even closer to each other. Let the past go away and focus on your common future, there're so many things to look forward together
Exactly, he said he doesn't want to work on it.
I can show you the photos of chinchillas
oh, that's not so nice, he sounds like a bank account: you feed it money, but when you want something in return, let's say: money, you don't get anything back.
It is already bringing us closer, and that's a good thing. We're even celebrating each other's birthdays... imagine that.
indeed, you're right: those worthy of affection and love will receive mine as well
Hahaha I was suprised how right that metaphore is describing him.
Great to hear that your relationship with your sis already started changing for the better!
nah, go have fun sweetie, and I've noticed you already did XD
Honestly stolen. . . I have to save this one. X°D
Yep!
And I "increased" the list some more too. XD