Because people have posted this.
Bold means I’ve read it:
1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery -long ago.
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley – We had to read this over the summer before junior or senior year of high school. Then we had to discuss it all year. I hated it.
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell – Er. Part of it anyway.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – FAVORITE!
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling – and OotP, as well
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte – argh. eight grade english.
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis – and the rest of the Narnia series
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl – one of my favorite books.
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden – signed copy, natch.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck – I think we read this in hs english.
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier – Spooky.
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett – Another all-time favorite, along with A Little Princess
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame – I think I read this years ago…
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Bold means I’ve seen it:
The Godfather (1972)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – of course.
Schindler’s List (1993)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Star Wars (1977)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Memento (2000)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Rear Window (1954)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Usual Suspects (1995) – This movie has the best ending ever.
Amelie (2001)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – one of the spookiest movies.
12 Angry Men (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
American Beauty (1999)
Vertigo (1958)
The Pianist (2002)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Matrix (1999)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Third Man (1949)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Fight Club (1999)
Das Boot (1981)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Chinatown (1974)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
All About Eve (1950)
M (1931)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Raging Bull (1980)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Se7en (1995)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
La Vita e bella (1997)
American History X (1998)
The Sting (1973)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Alien (1979)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Rashomon (1950)
Leon (1994)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Great Escape (1963)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Jaws (1975)
Amadeus (1984)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Ran (1985)
Braveheart (1995) – one of my most favorite movies…start of my scottish craze + Chris…
High Noon (1952)
Fargo (1996)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Apartment (1960)
Aliens (1986)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Modern Times (1936)
The Shining (1980)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Lola rennt (1998)
City Lights (1931)
The General (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
The Searchers (1956)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Notorious (1946)
Manhattan (1979)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Graduate, The (1967)
I’ve only seen part of the Godfather Part II, and I really have no interest in seeing any more of it or any of the other pre-/sequels. Just not a mob fan. Course, now they’ll probably put a hit out on me so I can be suitably impressed…