The ones in bold I have read.
- Lord of the rings / JRR Tolkien
- My sister's keeper / Jodi Picoult
- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen (a favourite)
- Cross stitch / Diana Gabaldon
- Harry Potter & the dealthy hallows / JK Rowling
- The bronze horseman / Paullina Simons
- The Da Vinci code / Dan Brown
- The power of one / Bryce Courtenay
- The pillars of the earth / Ken Follet
- The other Boleyn girl / Phillipa Gregory
- The lovely bones: a novel / Alice Sebold
- To kill a mocking bird / Harper Lee (ages ago, should read it again)
- The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini
- The time traveler's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
- Holy Bible (try to read something everyday)
- The hobbit / J R R Tolkien
- Magician / Raymond Feist
- The clan of the cave bear / Jean M Auel
- Nineteen minutes / Jodi Piccoult
- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell (think Scarlett is a whinging female dog)
- Angels and Demons / Dan Brown
- Harry Potter and the half-blood prince / J K Rowling
- The Poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver
- Into the wilderness / Sara Donati
- A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
- Jessica / Bryce Courtenay
- Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks
- Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone / J K Rowling
- Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix / J K Rowling
- A fine balance / Rohinton Mistry
- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C S Lewis
- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
- Rachel's holiday / Marian Keyes
- The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards
- Shantaram: a novel / Gregory Roberts
- Pact: a love story / Jodi Picoult
- Tea Rose / Jennifer Donnelly
- Change of heart / Jodi Picoult
- Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt
- Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones
- The girl in Times Square / Paullina Simons
- Twilight / Stephanie Meyer
- This charming man / Marian Keyes
- Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte (I tried, I really did)
- River God / Wilbur Smith
- The Persimmon Tree / Bryce Courtenay
- World without end / Ken Follet
- Dune / Frank Herbert
- Wild Swans: three daughters of China / Jung Chang
- April Fools Day / Bryce Courtenay
- Atonement / Ian McEwan
- The bone garden / Tess Gerritsen
- The alchemist / Paulo Coelho
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / J K Rowling
- Harry Potter and the prisoner of Askaban / J K Rowling
- Sushi for beginners / Marian Keyes
- The curious incident of the don in the night-time / Mark Haddon
- Catcher in the rye / J D Salinger
- I know this much is true / Wally Lamb
- Eragon / Christopher Paolini
- Tomorrow with the war began / John Marsden
- Northern lights / Philip Pullman
- Captain Corelli's mandolin / Louis De Bernieres
- Kane and Abel / Jeffrey Archer
- Tully / Paullina Simons
- Catch -22 / Joseph Heller
- No. 1 ladies detective agency / Alexander McCall Smith
- Watermelon / Marian Keyes
- We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver
- Anybody out there / Marian Keyes
- Chocolat / Joanne Harris
- Winter Rose / Jennifer Donnelly
- Denniston Rose / Jenny Pattrick
- Killing Floor / Lee Child
- A really short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson
- Anne of Green Gables / L M Montgomery
- Nothing to lose / Lee Child
- The secret / Rhonda Byrne
- The book thief/ Markus Zusak
- Galaxy / Douglas Adams
- The stand / Stephen King
- Edmonds Cookery Book / Edmonds (this woman has made it her mission to cook everything in a 40 year old Edmond's Cookbook during a year)
- The potato factory / Bryce Courtenay
- Lucy Sullivan is getting married / Marian Keyes
- The vinter's luck / Elizabeth Knox
- The red tent / Anita Diamant
- Bridget Jone's diary: a novel / Helen Fielding
- The Penguin history of New Zealand / Michael King
- London / Edward Rutherford
- The god of small things / Arundhati Roy
- The shipping news / Annie E Proulx
- Four fires / Bryce Courtenay
- Mao's last dancer / Li Gunxin
- Last chance saloon / Marian Keyes
- Plain truth / Jodi Picoult
- Perfume: the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind
- The Thorn birds / Colleen McCullough
- The notebook / Nicholas Sparks
I enjoyed notebook and Perfume actually quite a few of your no reads I have read.
ReplyDeleteI counted 43 but some of the MArian Keyes (and a few others) I can't remember if I've read them or not. I only remember when I read the blurb
ReplyDeletegosh I've only read 10 of those books!
ReplyDeleteYou have read more than me, Penny. I can recommend the Lee Child books, if you enjoy thrillers (not horror, just full of twists & turns). I have read (and own) every single one of his novels. I've also read both the Dan Brown ones (and his 2 others that aren't on that list - Digital Fortress and Deception Point) and thought they were pretty good. I tend to find an author I like and stick with him/her for a long time - in case you can't tell, ROFL!
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ReplyDeleteI just came across your blog (I'm a huge Marian Keyes fan and see you've read a lot of her stuff!) I was wondering if you had a moment and wouldn't mind checking out my website at www.sarahpekkanen.com
I'd love to hear what you think. I'm a brand-new author who just signed a publishing contract with the same house as Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner.
If you like my website, I'd love it if you'd sign up for my private monthly email list in the box on my homepage. That way, I can send you my first chapter when it's through the editing process to see what you think (I love to get reader's opinions, not just reviewers!)
Take care,
Sarah
www.sarahpekkanen.com
I was looking at the Dymocks list the other day and wandering how many you might of read of those. :) Quite a few I bet.
ReplyDeleteOnly 26 for me off this particular list, which is interesting because I read HEAPS!
I've read about 35 of them. You simply have to read Wild Swans by Jung Chang. The first time I read it I struggled but the second time I couldn't put it down. I had the privilege of hearing Jung Chang speak a few years ago at a Writers and Readers festival. She was this little thing who packed out the Michael Fowler Centre in Wgtn and got a standing ovation at the end of her talk. It was magic.
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