Trinah's List

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 Alice – Anonymous (repeat)

- 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 India – E.M. Forster

- 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.

Posted by Kat at 11/21/2007 07:07:00 PM

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