Books are love. :)

[elisi]

I am currently working my way through the latest Harry Potter (half a year after everyone else...) and its funny how the film has or hasn't impacted on how I see the characters. Most of them are still how I always saw them in my head - except for Snape who *is* Snape from the films. Even the voice. Alan Rickman is a god amongst actors! Oh and Harry/Draco shippers are delusional to the point of insanity. Spike is more likely to declare his undying love to Jonathan Willow is more likely to marry Warren, than those two ever getting beyond seething hatered. ::shakes head::

Anyway, after having a look at this meme (and realising that I'd actually read quite a few), I decided to do it:

The Museum, Libraries and Arts Council's list of 30 Books Every Adult Should Have Read. Bold the ones you have read. Italicize the ones you would like to read. Strike out the ones you never plan to read, or started but couldn't finish:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Just excellent.
The Bible. Well good chunks of it... and I do know a lot about it generally, like f.ex. why there are two creation stories.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien. ::profound love::
1984 by George Orwell. Very good, but horribly bleak.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Love it! And I cry when Tiny Tim dies...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Very good.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Mmmmm, Darcy...
All Quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque. Depressing. But good.
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman. Read an interview with him once where he explained his views and felt like shaking him very hard. I have no problems with atheists (all hail Joss!), but I really don't like faulty preachiness. I might give the books a shot, but I guess I'll just get cross (like when I read 'Dream Life of Angels'). Hate it when all I want to do is explain to the author why they're wrong. (If you want to argue against something at least use *good* arguments! *grumble*)
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Creepy.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night.
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy. harmonyfb warned me off it!
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne. ::profound love::
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Wonderful.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham. I *know* my mother read it to me, but I have no recollections of it...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Died of boredom after 2 chapters. Might try again.
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Haven't heard of it.
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Another one my mother read to me. Can't remember all *that* much...
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. "It's The Little Prince for grown-ups who didn't understand The Little Prince" according to dtissagirl. So it shall remain un-read!
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Haven't heard of it.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Middlemarch by George Eliot Tried. Vaguely recall hearing of it.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Not sure I'd like to read it...
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn. Any good?