The one with 50 living authors
Kevin at Collected Miscellany, besides making me agree with that political Blogging is in some ways easier than Literary blogging, also posted another of those liste memes that you see around the web. This is a list of books by living authors, deemed neccesary reads by the Orange Prize for fiction folks. In bold are the one's I've read. I'm only scoring 12% on this, hrm. Not much on my wishlist either. Maybe I should go eat worms.
1. A Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
3. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
4. American Pastoral Philip Roth
5. Atonement Ian McEwan
6. Being Dead Jim Crace
7. Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
8. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
9. Cloudstreet Tim Winton
10. Disgrace JM Coetzee
11. Enduring Love Ian McEwan
12. Faith Singer Rosie Scott
13. Fingersmith Sarah Waters
14. Fred and Edie Jill Dawson
15. Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels
16. Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
17. Grace Notes Bernard MacLaverty
18. High Fidelity Nick Hornby
19. His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman
20. Hotel World Ali Smith
21. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
22. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
23. Misery Stephen King
24. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg
25. Money Martin Amis
26. Music and Silence Rose Tremain
27. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
28. Riders Jilly Cooper
29. Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut
30. The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
31. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
32. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
33. The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
34. The House of Spirits Isabelle Allende
35. The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
36. The Passion Jeanette Winterson
37. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
38. The Rabbit Books John Updike
39. The Regeneration Trilogy Pat Barker
40. The Secret History Donna Tartt
41. The Shipping News E Annie Proulx
42. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
43. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
44. The Women's Room Marilyn French
45. Tracey Beaker Jacqueline Wilson
46. Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
47. Unless Carol Shields
48. What a Carve-Up Jonathan Coe
49. What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
50. White Teeth Zadie Smith

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