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1amz310783
Edited: Jan 23, 2012, 4:41 am

So far I have read 51 books from the combined lists:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murak
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The Shining – Stephen King
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

2amz310783
Aug 1, 2011, 7:41 am

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

3amz310783
Sep 30, 2011, 3:13 am

Time Machine - H G Wells

4amz310783
Jan 23, 2012, 4:40 am

Saturday - Ian McEwan

5george1295
Jan 23, 2012, 9:27 am

Do you ever rate the books you read?

6amz310783
Jan 23, 2012, 11:40 am

I rate them on my shelf, but not on here, I guess I never really thought about doing it on here, I'm not very good at reviews as I never really know how to explain why I like a book or not, just that I do or don't

7george1295
Jan 24, 2012, 8:43 am

"I liked it or I didn't like it is a good way to rate books. I use 1 to 5 starts and that's all I use. But it gives other readers an idea of what books they might like. I know I appreciate other's opinions of a book.

8amz310783
Jan 25, 2012, 9:33 am

Surfacing - I am not really sure what I make of this book, it took me a while to get into, then I really got into it, but then wasn't sure about the ending. It has some lovely writing that really draws you in though. I gave it 3 stars.