Recent Book Activity

There's nothing better than a rainy day with a good book, blanket and a glass of red/cup of coffee/good chocolate/cup of hot chocolate. Good book could be anything from a biography to historical fiction to crime novel or chick lit. Any conspiracy theory, myths of lost worlds, treasures or supernatural stuff goes well with me too! If there's music playing in the background, I'm in heaven! (If it happens to be Rammstein or Robbie, it must be 7th heaven. What do you mean, incoherent?)

The next best thing would be travelling and trying out new things. I love British things (the humour, the humour) but there are so many corners of the world to see, so many tastes to taste, so many people to meet that I'll be travelling around for the rest of my life. And as long as I can't afford to travel, I'll read about the places...

My aim is to read the books in the language they were written, if I possibly can and know the language. That's how I got over my fear of Swedish as a kid :) and love to read it nowadays, though I might be a bit slow to speak the language. Now I've noticed that my German's getting rusty, but I'd probably need to start with some children's books first...

As some of the books I've registered are outcasts from my own or my friends' bookshelves, they do not outright indicate my reading preferences. I believe the world is full of good books that I haven't even heard of and therefore I couldn't even wish for them! My wishlist is not so much a definite wishlist, instead I tend to add there such books that I wish I remembered to find when I go to a bookstore or a second-hand bookshop. For one reason or another they've just caught my attention. Still, the list is always up to date :) I have lists of wines, cds and lipsticks I should buy in my cellphone, list of groceries on my fridge door, lists of places to visit in certain towns on my bookmarks, bdays listed in a note book...dear me, have I turned into Monica Geller?!


Oh, and here's one list... The ones I've read are marked with an X. Dunno if I ever will read all of them, but just started following the list out of curiosity. A weird list, though, wouldn't think that _these_ 100 books were just the ones people have loved the most...
I can't go to the 200 list, there's far too many Prachett's on it :/

BBC's The Big Read Top 100 books

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien X
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen X
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (half read)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling X
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne X
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis X
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (TBR, Thank you again, Kirjakko!)
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (TBR)
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (TBR, Thank you Kirjakko!)
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (TBR)
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger X (as a kid, need to read it again)
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame X
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell X
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling X
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling X
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling X
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (TBR)
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll X
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery X
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell (TBR, thank you dotdot!)
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King x
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky X (Hated it!)
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding X
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind X (Loved it)
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding X
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (TBR)
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett (TBR)
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho X
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie