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UPDATE: pico says the list is a fake...see his link here!
http://www.purplecar.net/...
I still kind of like it, though.
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A hat tip to chingchongchinaman for this idea. I do enjoy lists. I have read about 2/3 of the BBC list and tried some more of them, but I am older so I have had time. There are some on the list that I have consciously decided NOT to read because of reviews or comments from friends. Basically, this is a good list, though.
The part that is critical that I don’t really agree with is the MUST READ part. I just can’t force people to read books that I loved. We all enjoy different books.
I will try my own list below this one and I hope you will, too.
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
http://community.indigo.ca/...
Instructions: Copy list
Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
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
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
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
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
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS 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
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 Meany – 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 (In French)
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
This is my list of fiction books that I recommend because I loved them or was inspired by them, not because they are great literature because many are not…
These books and authors are not in any order and I had to leave many of my favorites off. Hopefully, my posters will mention some I did not list. This list may vary from previous lists I have given. To squeeze in more books, I resorted to listing all stories by an author as I went along.
1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
3. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
4. The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by Steinbeck
5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7. Chesapeake by James Michener
8. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
9. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility
11. All of James Herriot's series that begins with All Creatures Great and Small
12. Mrs. Mike by Nancy and Benedict Freedman
13. Shane by Jack Schaefer
14. The Guns of Navarone by Alistair McLean
15. Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond Chronicles
House of Niccolo
King Hereafter
16. Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
17. Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
18. All by Patricia McKillip...especially The Riddle Master of Hed series, The Cygnet and the Firebird
19. All by Ursula Le Guin
20. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
21. The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
22. All by C. J. Cherryh
23. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
24. Both Amber series by Roger Zelazny
25. Mildred Taylor’s
Song of the Trees
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
The Road to Memphis
The Land
26. Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
27. Dragondoom by Dennis L. McKiernan
28. All by P. G. Wodehouse
29. Charles Dickens…A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
30. Kenneth Roberts…Northwest Passage, Oliver Wiswell
31. Exodus by Leon Uris
32. Lalita Tademy…Cane River and Red River
33. The Likeness by Tana French
34. All by Louise Penny
35. Mary Renault
The King Must Die
Bull from the Sea
Mask of Apollo
The Charioteer
36. All by Ellis Peters...Cadfael
37. Patrick Rothfuss…The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One and The Wise Man’s Fear: Day Two
38. All by Guy Gavriel Kay...Tigana, Under Heaven, Fionavar Tapestry series
39. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
40. Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow and The Children of God (must be read together)
41. Fred Saberhagen all the Sword Book series
42. Gail Tsukiyama…Samurai’s Garden, Street of a Thousand Blossoms
43. Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg
44. Sir Walter Scott… Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake
http://www.online-literature.com/...
45. The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
46. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
47. Mary Stewart
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
The Wicked Day
48. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
49. War and Peace by Tolstoy
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
51. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
52. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
53. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
54. Ulysses by James Joyce
55. Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
56. James White…Tales of Sector General series
57. All by Connie Willis
58. All by Jani Wurts
59. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
60. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
61. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
62. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
63. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
64. Lian Hearn
Heaven’s Net Is Wide
Across the Nightingale Floor
Grass for His Pillow
Brilliance of the Moon
65. Little Women and sequels by Louisa May Alcott
66. House of Spirits and Of Love and Shadow by Isabel Allende
67. The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
68. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
69. Anne of Green Gables and the Emily series by L. M. Montgomery
70. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
71. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
72. Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
73. The Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont
74. Middlemarch by George Eliot
75. The Elfin Ship by James P. Blaylock
76. Bard by Morgan Llywelyn
77. Enemy Mine and sequels by Barry Longyear
78. Irish RM by Somerville and Ross
79. David Brin
Sundiver
Startide Rising
Uplift War
Brightness Reef
Infinity’s Shore
Heaven’s Reach
80. Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
The Chosen
The Promise
81. Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
82. The Octopus by Frank Norris
83. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
84. Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
85. The Eight by Katherine Neville
86. Neverending Story by Michael Ende
87. All the short stories by Patrick F. McManus
88. Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown
The Blue Sword
89. Pern series including the Harper series by Anne McCaffrey
90. Patricia Kenealy-Morrison
The Copper Crown
The Throne of Scone
The Silver Branch
91. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
92. Robert Jordan…Wheel of Time series
93. Diana Gabaldon… Outlander series
94. Redwall series by Brian Jacques
95. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
96. All by Andrea Camilleri (except the first one Shape of Water)
97. All by Lindsey Davis with Falco
98. The Devil in Music and three sequels by Kate Ross
99. The Doll Maker by Harriette Arnow
100. All by Robin Hobb
101. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
102. All by Terry Prachett
103. All by Kelly McCullough
104. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Some other time I will do my non-fiction favorites.
This list leaves room for the names of lots more great and entertaining books from posters below…hundreds, even.
Diaries of the Week:
Monday Murder Mystery: Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent
by Avila
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Kos Katalogue: Holiday Mood (HOTLIST THIS!)
by Sara R
http://www.dailykos.com/...
What We Know About Elon Musk’s Proposed Mars Colony
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
...Musk envisions sending up much larger rockets and volunteer colonists in batches for the cost of about $500,000 per person. At first, 10 people would be sent to Mars, then larger groups, moving up to 80,000 per year.
The rockets, which would be larger even than SpaceX’s still-in-development Falcon Heavy (two Falcon 9 rockets combined), would also need to carry a massive amount of cargo for the journey to Mars and for getting the colony started — everything from the materials needed to build pressurized domes for growing crops, to water, which would be used not only for drinking and bathing but to shield the astronauts from harmful solar and cosmic radiation during flight.
Musk said in his talk that when calculating the cost-per-ticket to Mars, he looked into two different major types of fuel to get there and back: hydrogen and methane.
“The cheapest fuel is methane,” Musk said. “The nice thing about methane is you can create it on Mars, because Mars has a CO2 atmosphere and there’s a lot of water ice as well.”
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