Sunday, September 13, 2009

To Be Well Read

One of Matt's friends just posted on facebook that he wanted to be well read by he was not sure what he should read to accomplish that.
So Matt asked me and I made a list.
What do you think?

Science Fiction
Enders Game by O. Card
Foundation by I. Azimov
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Princess Bride by W. Goldman
The Postman by David Brin

Classics
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Scarlet Letter
Little Women by L. Alcott
Jane Eyre by C Bronte
Gone with the Wind
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
The Hobbit J R R Tolkin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway
I Heard the Owl Call My Name:
by Margaret Craven
Children’s books
Danny the Champion of the World by R. Dahl
The Giver by L. Lowery
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Ugglies by Scott Westerfield
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Inkheart by C. Funk
Holes By Sacher
Mystery
The Westing Game by E. Raskin
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
The Beekeepers Apprentice by L. King
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Non Fiction
Tuesdays with Morrie by M. Albolm
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver,
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

1 comment:

Ashley said...

There should be a Charles Dickens on the Classics list. I like the long slow ones, so I'm not the one to ask. Maybe Great Expectations?