Here are the current top 25* books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan to read. Leave the rest.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
15 of 25, if you're keeping score. So, um, I had to read the same books in school as other people, is what I think this list means.
* Via Bilal Dardai. Bilal said "50" but his list had 45, and the current What Should I Read Next? list has 25. So I went with the current list. (I was 30/45 on Bilal's list -- lots of science fiction in the next 20.)
Comments
Huh...I actually pulled the meme from somebody else, but didn't bother to proofread it. I wonder if there were five more books on it when it first started, and I wonder what they were. Nice catch.
Posted by: Bilal | February 22, 2006 8:25 AM
Man, you should really read The Time Traveler's Wife. I read the shit out of it. Very good read.
Posted by: danH | February 22, 2006 2:02 PM