Off Topic: Some day i'm going to do the Feminista Journal's 100 best works by female writers, because its only when you start looking through the awards lists do you realise how few female writers there are listed in comparison to male writers. Anyhooo. . .
Heres my 100
1. The Blind Assasin – Margaret Atwood
2. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
3. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
4. Memoirs of Cleopatra – Margaret George
5. News of a Kidnapping – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. Zorro – Isabel Allende
7. Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
8. The Master – Colm Toibin
9. Persian Fire – Tom Holland
10. Rubican – Tom Holland
11. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
12. The Time Travellor’s Wife – Audrey Niffenberger
13. A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon
14. Where I am Calling From – Raymond Carver
15. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
16. Magician – Raymond E. Feist
17. Speed of Dark – Elizabeth Moon
18. Secret of my Face – Karen Ardiff
19. 1984 – George Orwell
20. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
21. The Mission Song – John Le Carre
22. War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
23. Let the night one in – John Ajvide Lindqvist
24. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
25. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
26. Oxford book of Short Stories
27. Ghost Stories – M.R. James
28. The Happy Prince & other stories – Oscar Wilde
29. North & South – Elizabeth Gaskell
30. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
31. Selected Tales – Edgar Allen Poe
32. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
33. Sons & Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
34. A Portrait of a Young Man. . . – James Joyce
35. Dracula – Bram Stoker
36. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
37. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R.Tolkein
38. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
39. The Russian Concubine – Kate Furnival
40. Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norell – Susanna Clarke
41. The Reality Dysfunction – Peter F. Hamilton
42. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
43. American Gods – Neil Gaimon
44. Consider Phlebas – Ian M. Banks
45. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawkings
46. River God – Wilbur Smith
47. The lies of Locke Lamara – Scott Lynch
48. Shadow – K.T. Parker
49. Troy – David & Stella Gemmell
50. Cosmonaut Keep – Ken MaCleod
51. Quicksilver – Neal Stephensen
52. The Messenger – Marcus Zusak
53. American pastoral – Philip Roth
54. Suspicions of Mr. Whicher – Kate Summersdale
55. The 19th Wife – David Ebershoff
56. The Outcast – Sadie Jones
57. East of the Sun – Julia Grigson
58. Revelation – C.J. Sansons
59. Nation – Terry Pratchet
60. Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman
61. Harry Potter – JK Rowling
62. Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
63. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
64. The Gathering – Anne Enright
65. Last Orders – Graham Swift
66. The Ghost Road – Pat Baker
67. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
68. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
69. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
70. Atonement – Ian McEwan
71. The Love of a Good Woman – Alice Munro
72. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
73. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
74. The Curious Case of Benjamen button, apt. 3W – Gabriel Brownstein
75. Small Island – Andrea Levy
76. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
77. The Last King of Scotland – Giles Foden
78. The Lovely Bines – Alice Sebold
79. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
80. Schindler’s List Thomas Keneally
81. Love in the time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
82. We Need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver
83. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
84. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
85. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
86. Lolita – Vladimer Nabokov
87. The grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
88. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
89. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
90. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
91. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemmingway
92. Gone with the wind – Margaret Mitchell
93. A room with a view – E.M. Forster
94. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
95. Orlando – Virginia Wolfe
96. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
97. A Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy – Douglas Adams
98. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
99. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
100. Middle March – George Eliot
9 comments:
re: lady award winners: no sheet, as my aunt would say. i want to read all the "great" books, but how come none of them were written by women? oh...wait... (i know, i shouldn't get myself started). back to the point.
awesome list!!! we have a whole bunch of books in common. i'm going to keep a "currently reading" tab active on my sidebar, and put up reviews as i finish stuff on thebookbook--you should let me know as you finish stuff, too! also if you'd like to review on thebookbook so we can form a support group. just send me your email address if you'd like!
yay! we're going to have an awesome time :)
Wow, great list. Good luck! I have a list about ten million miles long. And no time. Kids and all... perhaps in another part of my life! Like when my daughter goes to school!
You have a great list! You and I have some of the same authors and books on our lists. Here's my list:
http://tinyurl.com/c7p3tz
Good luck!
Ack, you're making me feel bad. I used to read soooo much, and now I hardly ever do. Kinda sad. I've read some great books that no one else has read and couldn't discuss them with anyone. I tried reading Turn of the Screw and I ended up calling it "Screw It and Burn" because I was so bored with it. Loved Jane Eyre and Mill on the Floss--though it was quite sad at the ending. You're inspiring me to get back into it--especially because any other hobbies are on hold due to a recent shoulder surgery. I've got B&N gift cards.
www.SavvySingleChristian.blogspot.com
re: the 100 books every woman should read list: yeah, i forgot, i did actually go through that list as i was compiling. i've read a BUNCH and included a lot of others.
also re: the badge: let me know when it's ready!! i'll put it up on my blog. wow, i think a LOT of people are playing! together we can conquer!
GREAT list! I've read maybe twenty books on your list. We have similar tastes; a lot of books you've listed are the same as ones I've listed.
We have awesome taste, don't we?
That's an awesome list. I've read a good handful of those, bought some of the others and still haven't read them :) and there are close to a dozen that I want to buy to read!
MoonRat, i'd love to join the book book, thank you
lady Glamis, see this is why i plan on not having kids for at least ten years lol
Vasilly & Freddie, i love your lists!! Great minds!
Savvy, you totally should join up, i think its going to lots of fun - reading always is ;)
Cindy, i am soooo bad for buying books and not reading them, thats why over half my books are ones i actually own! as soon as the evil course is finished i;m living in my bed and reading all day
Wow you're right, we DO have a lot of these in common! I've read quite a few on your list and you've got some really good ones on there. This is an exciting project!
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