I saw this over at Kimbofo and I just had to write a little post about the Harvard Book Store staff’s favourite 100 books . Partly cos I wanted to see how many of those books I had read, and because I REFUSE to believe that A People’s History of the United States is anyone’s number one. It is one of those weighty tomes that I see people carry about all the time (but note carrying not reading). Hell, I tried to read it when I first moved over, Alex tried to read it and my mum started on this dry book.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Lolita by Sting Vladmir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Dracula by Stoker
The Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood
Persuasion by Austen
Where the wild Things Are by Sendak
The Bell Jar by Plath
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Goodbye to All That by Graves
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
The Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
Three books on the list that I am currently reading The Iliad, Republic and History of the Peloponnesian War. I have to say that I find the Harvard Book Store a little bit skewed and stuffy, it appears to be missing a few fun titles (an Agatha Christie or a Donna Leon). I am quite chuffed about Persuasion as it is my favourite Austen. But personally I prefer Slaughter House Five over Breakfast of Champions.
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