{"id":35,"date":"2003-08-26T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/08\/26\/books-books-books\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:56:30","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/08\/26\/books-books-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not bad, I think, but I obviously have some library visits to make.
\nAnd could someone explain why there are so many Terry Pratchett books on this list?!<\/font><\/p>\n


\nbold<\/b> = read it
\nitalics<\/i> = tried and couldn’t get through it
\ndark red<\/font> = refuse to bother \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

1984, George Orwell<\/b>
\nThe Alchemist, Paulo Coelho<\/b>
\nAlice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll<\/b>
\nAnimal Farm, George Orwell<\/b>
\nAnna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
\nAnne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery<\/b>
\nArtemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
\nThe BFG, Roald Dahl<\/b>
\nBirdsong, Sebastian Faulks
\nBlack Beauty, Anna Sewell<\/b>
\nBleak House, Charles Dickens
\nBrave New World, Aldous Huxley
\nBrideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
\nBridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding<\/b>
\nCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres<\/b>
\nCatch 22, Joseph Heller
\nThe Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
\nCharlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl<\/b>
\nA Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
\nThe Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
\nCold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons<\/b>
\nThe Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
\nThe Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
\nCrime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/font>
\nDavid Copperfield, Charles Dickens
\nDouble Act, Jacqueline Wilson
\nDune, Frank Herbert<\/b>
\nEmma, Jane Austen<\/b>
\nFar From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
\nGirls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
\nThe God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
\nThe Godfather, Mario Puzo<\/font>
\nGone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell<\/i> (I skipped all the war bits)
\nGood Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
\nGoodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
\nGormenghast, Mervyn Peake
\nThe Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
\nGreat Expectations, Charles Dickens
\nThe Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald<\/b>
\nGuards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
\nHarry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling<\/b>
\nHarry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
\nHarry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
\nHarry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling<\/b>
\nHis Dark Materials, Philip Pullman<\/b>
\nThe Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
\nThe Hobbit, JRR Tolkien<\/b>
\nHoles, Louis Sachar
\nI Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith<\/b>
\nJane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
\nKane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
\nKatherine, Anya Seton
\nThe Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
\nLittle Women, Louisa May Alcott<\/b>
\nLord Of The Flies, William Golding<\/font>
\nThe Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien<\/b>
\nLove In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\nThe Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
\nMagician, Raymond E Feist
\nThe Magus, John Fowles
\nMatilda, Roald Dahl
\nMemoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden<\/b>
\nMiddlemarch, George Eliot
\nMidnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
\nMort, Terry Pratchett
\nNight Watch, Terry Pratchett
\nNoughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
\nOf Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
\nOn The Road, Jack Kerouac<\/font>
\nOne Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\nPerfume, Patrick Suskind
\nPersuasion, Jane Austen<\/b>
\nThe Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
\nA Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
\nPride And Prejudice, Jane Austen<\/b>
\nThe Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
\nThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
\nRebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
\nThe Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
\nThe Secret History, Donna Tartt
\nThe Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
\nThe Stand, Stephen King<\/b>
\nThe Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
\nA Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
\nSwallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
\nA Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens<\/b>
\nTess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
\nThe Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
\nTo Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee<\/b>
\nA Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
\nTreasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
\nThe Twits, Roald Dahl
\nUlysses, James Joyce
\nVicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
\nWar And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
\nWatership Down, Richard Adams
\nThe Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
\nWinnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne<\/b>
\nThe Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
\nWuthering Heights, Emily Bronte<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not bad, I think, but I obviously have some library visits to make. And could someone explain why there are so many Terry Pratchett books on this list?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}