Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Books I wanted to read and then did
1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
3. Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift
4. Silas Marner - George Eliot
5. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
8. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
9. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
10. Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
11. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
12. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
13. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
14. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
15. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
16. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
17. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
18. Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K Jerome
19. The French Lieutenant's Woman - Fowles
Surely there are more? I have been on a programme of alternating classics with 'other' for years now, and I can only think of 15 books that I have read?