Saturday 29 January 2011

Goal 38 - Read these lists from the Reading Journal

    Adventure Favourites (0/11)


    1. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    2. Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days

    3. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels

    4. H.G. Wells – The Islands of Doctor Moreau

    5. Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

    6. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book

    7. Daniel DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe

    8. Johann D. Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson

    9. H.G. Wells – Time Machine

    10. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island

    11. Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues under the Sea



    Epic Novel Favourites. (1/10)


    1. Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brother's Karamazov

    3. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote

    4. John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath

    5. J.R.R. Tolkien – Lord of the Rings READ

    6. Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

    7. James Joyce – Ulysses

    8. Thomas Pynchon – V.

    9. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace



    Gothic/Horror Favourites. (1/9)


    1. Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto

    2. Bram Stoker – Dracula

    3. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

    4. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

    5. Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    6. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

    7. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    8. Henry James – The Turn of the Screw

    9. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights READ



    Mystery/Detective Fiction Favourites. (0/10)


    1. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None

    2. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep

    3. Ross MacDonald – The Dalton Cse

    4. Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress

    5. Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night

    6. Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon

    7. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

    8. Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    9. James M. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice

    10. Sir Athur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet



    Romance Favourites. (0/7)


    1. Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind

    2. George Eliot – Middlemarch

    3. Diana Gabaldon – Outlander

    4. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

    5. Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca

    6. E.M. Forster – A Room With a View

    7. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair


    Science Fiction Favourites. (1/10)


    1. Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain

    2. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

    3. Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game

    4. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

    5. Isaac Asimov – Foundation

    6. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy READ

    7. Richard Matheron – I Am Legend

    8. Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

    9. H. G. Wells – War or the Worlds

    10. Madelein L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time



    Spy Novel Favourites. (0/10)


    1. W. Somerset Maugham – Ashenden or the British Agent

    2. Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Identity

    3. Robert Littell – The Company

    4. Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love

    5. Rudyard Kipling – Kim

    6. Graham Greene – One Man in Havana

    7. Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel

    8. James Grady – Six Days of the Condor

    9. John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps

    10. John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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