Saturday, 18 October 2014

The Reading List

I have compiled a list of 80 books to read, some of which i have read but am keen to read again and the others i have not read at all. The plan is to read them review them and hopefully gain a little more insight into the workings of the world, as it has been said that books have the power to change us n ways we cannot fathom. Over the weeks  will write my review and opinions on each book.

The list:
    1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
    2. Paper Towns by John Green
    3. A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
    4. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
    5. Another Day in Paradise by Eddie Little
    6. Speed by William Burroughs Jr.
    7. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richardson
    8. Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Scheff
    9. White Girls by Hilton Als
    10. Necessary Errors by Caleb Crain
    11. Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austin
    12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    13. Gone With the Wind by Margret Mitchell
    14. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    15. 1984 by George Orwell (completed 1/12/14)
    16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme
    17. The complete stories of Sherlock Holmes
    18. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
    19. Dancing Jaxs (First in Series)
    20. Dancing Jaxs: Freax and Rejex (Second in Series)
    21. Dancing Jaxs: Fighting Pax (Third in series)
    22. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer
    23. The Social Contract by  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    24. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 
    25. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
    26. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
    27. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    28. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
    29. THE ENGLISH GIRL' BY DANIEL SILVA
    30. Atonement – Ian McEwan
    31. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
    32. Snobs by Julian Fellowes
    33. Forever a Stranger by Hella Haasse
    34. Border Town: A Novel by Shen Congwen
    35. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
    36. This Is Where We Live, by Janelle Brown
    37. Villages, by John Updike
    38. What Was She Thinking?, by Zoë Heller
    39. The Farm byTom Rob Smith
    40. The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
    41. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
    42. EVERYTHING IS PERFECT WHEN YOU’RE A LIAR BY KELLY OXFORD
    43. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE BY EDITH WHARTON
    44. A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND BY FLANNERY O’CONNOR
    45. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
    46. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
    47. Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
    48. Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash
    49. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    50. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
    51. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 25/2/15
    52. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
    53. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
    54. Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist
    55. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
    56. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor  by Susan Wicklund
    57. Looking for Alaska by John Green
    58. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbaith
    59. The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling (Completed 9/12/14)
    60. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
    61. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    62. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban
    63. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    64. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    65. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
    66. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    67. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
    68. Crime and Punishment By Joseph Frank
    69. My Secret Life by Henry Spencer Ashbee
    70. Story of O by Pauline Réage
    71. I’d Rather Be Short by Becky Murphy
    72. All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
    73. Diary of a Nobody  by George Grossmith
    74. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
    75. Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook - David Cressy
    76. Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography - John Toland
    77. Lying About Hitler - Richard J. Evans
    78. The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660 - Blair Worden
    79. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in World and International History) - Doris L. Bergen
    80. All Things Bright and Beautiful - James Herriot


      I hope you all will my list and experiences on each book


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