MEMEHUNTER

memetic drift

So. Grabbed a meme from Jess because I am trying to avoid work in all its forms despite the fact that my supervisor hates me and I have some writing to be done, thank you. Anyway, it looked like a laugh. So I did it.

List of books. bold the ones you've read, italicise the ones you might read at some point and strikethrough ones you defintely won't. Mark any on your shelves with an *.

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 - J. K. Rowling

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller*

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 - J. K. Rowling

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

The Secret History - Donna Tartt*

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

(Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides)

(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

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 HerbertSense & Sensibility - Jane Austen

(Mrs. Mike - Benedict & Nancy Freedman)

(My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult)

The Illiad - Homer

(The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien)

(The Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing - Melissa Banks)

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Age of Iron - JM Coetzee

Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre

In general keeping, here are a few books I think should be on the list, all of which I've read (obv):

The Diceman - Luke Reinhardt
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Pale FIre - Vladimir Nabokov
Rules of Attraction - Brett Easton Ellis
Vurt - Jeff Noon
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

I have to stop now because I want chocolate.

**EDIT: Ah, yes. Forgot to mention: brackets mean you've never heard of it. Ta Andy.**

posted by Memehunter @ 5:44 PM