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Pop culture, anyone?

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 smile

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 (195 :(

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 (199 :(

All About Eve (1950)

M (1931)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Raging Bull (1980)

Once Upon a Time in the West (196 :(

Se7en (1995)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

2001: A Space Odyssey (196 :(

La Vita e bella (1997)

American History X (199 :(

The Sting (1973)

Touch of Evil (195 :(

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 (194 :(

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 (199 :(

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...



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