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?