Trinah's List
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Category 1: Books on the 1001 books you must read before you die
- American Psycho - Bret Easten Ellis
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote
- Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
- Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Glamorama - Bret Easten Ellis
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Category 2: Young Adult Books
- The Book Theif - Marcus Zusak
- Extras - Scott Westerfeld
- Slam - Nick Hornby
- Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
- Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
- So Yesterday – Scott Westerfeld
- Prom – Laurie Halse Anderson
Category 3: Pre 1900s.
- The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- Notes From the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Category 4: Female Authors
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
- Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
- The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Category 5: Commonly Challenged Books
- American Psycho – Bret Easten Ellis (repeat)
- Annie on my Mind – Nancy Garden
- Blubber – Judy Blume
- Carrie – Stephen King
- Go Ask
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
- The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton (repeat)
Category 6: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library (chosen by either board or readers)
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- A Passage to
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (repeat)
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Category 7: Random TBR books I haven’t yet gotten around to
- Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the west – Gregory Maguire
- Diary: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
- Enduring Love: A Novel – Ian McEwan
- The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- High Fedelity – Nick Hornby
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
Category 8: Soon to be made into a film/Recently made into a film
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (repeat)
- Cirque du Freak - Darren Shan
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (repeat)
- Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sorry about the spacing...had to do some in Word and it came out odd. List may have slight change depending on availability of books in library. I haven't checked that they're all there yet, though they really should be.
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