Timewaster

I found this at Sally Sue's Blog. (Isn't her Rose of Sharon pretty?) So, here's how it works. Copy and paste the list, then bold the titles you've read. Add four recent reads to the bottom of the list (be sure to bold those too!) and then tag someone. Or someone's, if you have more blogging friends than I do.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller TBR (I read part of it)
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card *
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Holy Fools - Joanne Harris
The Browning Version - Terence Rattigan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Naked - David Sedaris
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Crown of Swords (Wheel of TIme book 7) - Robert Jordan
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Secretary of Frivolous Affairs - May Futrelle **

And I tag Holly and Alison.


Truth be told, if I'd listed the last four books I'd read, then it would say books 7, 6, 5 and 4 of the Wheel of Time series, but that hardly seemed very cool. Anyway, all of those are this year's fair, so they count, right? And yes I added footnotes. That's what those asterisks are all about...

*Since it specifically mentions the saga as well as just Ender's Game I figured I'd mention I've actually read the first four of the saga, plus Ender's Shadow, which is a book in a related series, called the Shadow Saga, about the same characters, but with different focus.

**I doubt anyone but I will have read Secretary of Frivolous Affairs. It was published in 1911, the copy I have is first edition and I found it at a thrift store recently in a cache of antique books. (I LOVE antique books!) After buying as many of them as I could carry, the oldest inscribed in 1899, the newest inscribed in 1935, I brought them home to research the authors. In addition to it's saucy title (and title page illustration!) the May Futrelle book caught my attention because May Futrelle, a noted author of the day, was a survivor of the Titanic. Her husband, too whom the book is dedicated, just a year before the disaster, went down with the ship. It's a lovely book, by the way.