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the purple chai
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It's a List 461	06.16.2004	10:24 pm
I got this from l-empress, who got it from dichroic reflections. Wow, some list! It's hard to read through, I think, but an interesting exercise to do. The rules are: bold those books you�ve read italicize started-but-never-finished underline owned but not read add three of your own post to your journal The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 1984, George Orwell The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Catch-22, Joseph Heller Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Captain Corelli�s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Harry Potter And The Sorcerer�s/Philosopher�s Stone, JK Rowling Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien Tess Of The D�Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy Middlemarch, George Eliot A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck Alice�s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute Persuasion, Jane Austen Dune, Frank Herbert Emma, Jane Austen Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery Watership Down, Richard Adams The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Animal Farm, George Orwell A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck The Stand, Stephen King Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth The BFG, Roald Dahl Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough Mort, Terry Pratchett The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton The Magus, John Fowles Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett Lord Of The Flies, William Golding Perfume, Patrick Susskind The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell Night Watch, Terry Pratchett Matilda, Roald Dahl Bridget Jones�s Diary, Helen Fielding The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins Ulysses, James Joyce Bleak House, Charles Dickens Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson The Twits, Roald Dahl I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith Holes, Louis Sachar Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons Magician, Raymond E Feist On The Road, Jack Kerouac The Godfather, Mario Puzo The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Katherine, Anya Seton Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot Midnight�s Children, Salman Rushdie Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome Small Gods, Terry Pratchett The Beach, Alex Garland Dracula, Bram Stoker Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (but in an abridged version) The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde Shogun, James Clavell The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray The Forsythe Saga, John Galsworthy House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle Possession, A. S. Byatt The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov The Handmaid�s Tale, Margaret Atwood Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl East Of Eden, John Steinbeck George�s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett The Color Purple, Alice Walker Hogfather, Terry Pratchett The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson High Fidelity, Nick Hornby It, Stephen King James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl The Green Mile, Stephen King Papillon, Henri Charriere Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett Master And Commander, Patrick O�Brian Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz Soul Music, Terry Pratchett Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett Atonement, Ian McEwan Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier One Flew Over The Cuckoo�s Nest, Ken Kesey Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Kim, Rudyard Kipling Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon Moby Dick, Herman Melville River God, Wilbur Smith Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Shipping News, Annie Proulx The World According To Garp, John Irving Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye The Witches, Roald Dahl Charlotte�s Web, E. B. White Frankenstein, Mary Shelley They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco Sophie�s World, Jostein Gaarder Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay Silas Marner, George Eliot American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh Goosebumps, R. L. Stine Heidi, Johanna Spyri Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera Man And Boy, Tony Parsons The Truth, Terry Pratchett The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett The Once And Future King, T. H. White The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle Flowers In The Attic, V.C. Andrews The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan Winter�s Heart, Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto Microserfs, Douglas Coupland The Married Man, Edmund White Winter�s Tale, Mark Helprin The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell Equus, Peter Shaffer The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice Anthem, Ayn Rand The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson Tartuffe, Moliere The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka The Crucible, Arthur Miller The Trial, Franz Kafka Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther A Doll�s House, Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read Grapefruit, Yoko Ono Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon Summerland, Michael Chabon A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole Candide, Voltaire The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl Ringworld, Larry Niven The King Must Die, Mary Renault Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L�Engle The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde Life Of Pi, Yann Martel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (the whole series) Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O�Brien Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt The Cay, Theodore Taylor From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin The Kitchen God�s Wife, Amy Tan The Bone Setter�s Daughter, Amy Tan Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child Wicked, Gregory Maguire American Gods, Neil Gaiman Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum Haunted, Judith St. George Singularity, William Sleator A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson Different Seasons, Stephen King Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk About a Boy, Nick Hornby The Bookman�s Wake, John Dunning The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns Illusions, Richard Bach Magic�s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey Magic�s Promise, Mercedes Lackey Magic�s Price, Mercedes Lackey The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison The Cider House Rules, John Irving Ender�s Game, Orson Scott Card Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland The Lion�s Game, Nelson Demille The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh Foucault�s Pendulum, Umberto Eco Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk The Art of War, Sun Tzu The Giver, Lois Lowry The Telling, Ursula Le Guin Xenogenesis (or Lilith�s Brood), Octavia Butler A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil) in Latin, actually, most of it Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern [or William Goldman] Beowulf, Anonymous The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell Deerskin, Robin McKinley Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey Passage, Connie Willis Otherland, Tad Williams Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay Number the Stars, Lois Lowry Beloved, Toni Morrison Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ�s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin Summer Sisters, Judy Blume The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover The Miracle Worker, William Gibson The Genesis Code, John Case The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen Paradise Lost, John Milton Phantom, Susan Kay The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice Anno Dracula, Kim Newman The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson The Winter of Magic�s Return, Pamela Service The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O�Neill Othello, by William Shakespeare The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats Sati, Christopher Pike The Inferno, Dante The Apology, Plato The Small Rain, Madeline L�Engle The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Our Town, Thorton Wilder Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass The Moor�s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson A Passage to India, E.M. Forster The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg The Changeover, Margaret Mahy Howl�s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones Angels and Demons, Dan Brown Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston Time for Bed by David Baddiel Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley Sewer, Gas, and Electric by Matt Ruff Jhereg by Steven Brust So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane Perdido Street Station, China Mieville The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje Neuromancer, William Gibson The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault The Gunslinger, Stephen King Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Childhood�s End, Arthur C. Clarke A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman Ivanhoe, Walter Scott The God Boy, Ian Cross The Beekeeper�s Apprentice, Laurie R. King Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson Misery, Stephen King Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters Hood, Emma Donoghue The Land of Spices, Kate O�Brien The Diary of Anne Frank Regeneration, Pat Barker Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss A Severed Wasp - Madeleine L�Engle Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris My Antonia, Willa Cather Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins Conceived Without Sin, Bud MacFarlane Jr. Pierced by a Sword, Bud MacFarlane, Jr. Tully, Paullina Simons On the Beach, Nevil Shute Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood Earth Abides, George R. Stewart Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars, Daniel K. Pinkwater The Talisman, Stephen King and Peter Straub Black House, Steven King and Peter Straub Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr The Golden Spiders, Rex Stout Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren The gift of Sex, C & J Penner Dominion, Randy Alcorn Trixie Belden and the secret of the mansion, Julie Campbell The Shaman, Noah Gordon Pope Joan, Donna W. Cross The Bible Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Ann Fadiman The New Lifetime Reading Plan, Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major The Goal, Eliyahu M. 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