Reading lists

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Currently I am reading (and in some cases rereading) Diane Duane's excellent Young Wizards series. I read the first three or four when they first came out, then lost track of them. She's been offering up a fabulous deal on them in ebook format through her personal site, so I bought them and have started them over again.

I've forgotten just how much I love these books, and how easily I am transported into Kit & Nita's lives. If you've not read them, I strongly recommend them.

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The 2012 Long List - ordered by number of votes:

1 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
4 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
6 The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
7 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
8 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
10 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
11 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
12 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
13 Harry Potter Adult Hardback Boxed Set - J. K. Rowling I’ve read most, does that count?
14 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
15 The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 One Day - David Nicholls
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 The Help - Kathryn Stockett
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
20 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
21 The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
22 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
23 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood <--------interesting premise and scary look at the future, boring as shit (IMO).
24 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
25 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
26 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
27 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
28 Atonement - Ian McEwan
29 Room - Emma Donoghue
30 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
31 We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
32 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
33 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
34 The Island - Victoria Hislop
35 Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
36 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
37 The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
38 Chocolat - Joanne Harris
39 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
40 The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
41 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
44 The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
45 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
46 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
47 I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
48 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
49 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
51 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
52 Dracula - Bram Stoker
53 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
54 Small Island - Andrea Levy
55 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
56 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 Persuasion - Jane Austen
58 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
59 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
60 Watership Down - Richard Adams
61 Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
62 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
63 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
64 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke <----have the book, have not read yet.
65 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
66 My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
67 The Stand - Stephen King
68 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
69 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
70 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
71 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72 Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
73 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
74 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
75 Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell <---well, I tried to read it. But just couldn’t get into it.
76 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
77 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
78 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
79 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
80 Perfume - Patrick Suskind
81 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
82 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
83 Middlemarch - George Eliot ß--have, have not read yet.
84 Dune - Frank Herbert
85 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
86 Stardust - Neil Gaiman
87 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
88 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
89 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling ß-why is this on here twice?
90 Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
91 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
92 Possession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt
93 Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
94 Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
95 The Magus - John Fowles
96 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
97 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
98 Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
99 Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
100 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami