Books

jon laa wrote on January 19th, 2009, 6:38 pm

It was good to revisit animal farm by george orwell. I suppose one’s ability to understand a book changes with time, I found myself enjoying animal farm a lot more than the last time I read it.

Now let me compile a list of books I will like to read or re-read. It has been a thought drifting about for years and it’s about time I penned them down to have a reading-reminder to fall back on.

1. 1984 by george orwell
2. to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
3. the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger
4. pride and prejudice by jane austen
5. catch-22 by joseph heller
6. lolita by vladimir nabokov
7. brave new world by aldous huxley
8. great expectations by charles dickens
9. les miserables by hugo victor
10. one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
11. the kite runner by khaled hosseini
12. a tale of two cities by charles dickens
13. i, claudius by robert graves
14. life of pi by yann martel
15. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
16. saturday by ian mcewan
17. celestial harmonies by péter esterházy
18. everything you need by a.l. kennedy
19. fear and trembling by  amélie nothomb
20. the ground beneath her feet by salman rushdie
21. enduring love by ian mcewan
22. cocaine nights by j.g. ballard
23. birdsong by sebastian faulks
24. mao ii by don delillo
25. are you there god? it’s me, margaret by judy blume
26. a handful of dust by evelyn waugh
27. light in august by william faulkner 
28. lord of the flies by william golding
29. the painted bird by jerzy kosinski
30. jonathan strange & mr norrell by susanna clarke
31. bel canto by ann patchett 
32. waiting by ha jin
33. the chocolate war by robert cormier
34. ulysses by james joyce
35. a portrait of an artist like a young man by james joyce
36. darkness at noon by arthur koestler
37. the day of locust by nathanael west
38. kim by rudyard kipling
39. illusions by richard bach
40. the boy who lost his face by louis sachar
41. i saw esau by iona opte
42. a dog’s tale by mark twain
43. the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevksy
44. the grapes of wrath by john steinback
45. east of eden by john steinback
46. gone with the wind by margaret mitchell
47. war and peace by leo tolstoy
48. a clockwork orange by anthony burgess
49. the sound and the fury by william faulkner
50. as i lay dying by william faulkner 
51. the call of the wild by jack london
52. dharma bums by jack kerouac