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[tikistitch]

Here's a list of Blackwell's Top 50 Favorites which They Would Like to Sell to You and Make Lots of Money.

Markup: BOLD = we've read it. Italics = tried to read it once, got a headache, went to watch People's Court instead.



A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

A Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernieres

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Crime and Punishment
F. M. Dostoevsky

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson

Good Omens
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach

Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell

Northern Lights
Philip Pullman

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Perfume
Patrick Suskind

Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane Stafford, Fiona

Rebecca
Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

The Complete Robot
Isaac Asimov

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

The Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

The Karamazov Brothers
F. M. Dostoevsky

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

The Lord of the Rings (v.1)
J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (v.2)
J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (v.3)
J.R.R. Tolkien

The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory

The Outsider
Albert Camus

The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett

The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Ulysses
James Joyce

Wild Swans
Jung Chang

Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte


The Dice Man??

Comments

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I've read 11 of those--slightly more respectable than the last list you posted!

The one that raised my eyebrow is Jonathan Livingston Seagull!

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of giving that one a special markup all its own, like, "Read, and then washed brain out with soap."

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I've read 23 of those. D:

People still read Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Really? I read and enjoyed it when it came out, but I was, like, 8 or 9 at the time.

[spazzygirl19.livejournal.com]

Whoa! I've read 18 of those! I'm quite surprised. Most of those over 20 years ago.