Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006

Book Meme

The instructions for these meme are as follows:

Book Meme!
1. Copy & paste.
2. Bold the ones you’ve read.
3. Star the ones you'd like to read.
4. Parenthesize the ones you own but haven't read.
5. Add four recent reads to the end.
6. Tag whomever you like!

I'm not sure of the significance of these particular tomes, except that they seem to encompass a mixture of contemporary popular fiction and a variety of older, commonly-accepted classics. And, as everyone is supposed to add their own choices onto the end, I suppose this makes sense.

Anyhow... the Book Meme! according to Saturn...

**The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
**His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
**Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
**Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
(The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
(The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
(Angels and Demons - Dan Brown)
**Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
(Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson)
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
**A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
**Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender’s Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
**Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
(The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
**The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
The Nature of Blood - Caryl Phillips
**Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - Ed. David Sedaris
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
**The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg
(The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King)
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
**The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
The Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
**Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Green
Philosophy & Social Hope - Richard Rorty
The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
The Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' Childhood Friend - Christopher Moore
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
**Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson

My 4 --

The Red and the Black - Maurice Stendhal
The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton
Holes - Louis Sachar
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
I generally don't tag people specifically. However, if you choose to do the meme on your own journal, it'd be great if you let me know so I can mosey on over and check out your own picks. Or, heck, if you'd like to do up an email, then send me a copy. That's cool too. The best part of these things for me is to see what other people have said or done.

saturncat at 10:25 p.m.

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