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lazyboywithtime:

So I think I might start reading again.
Like, try to get at least one book in per week (I’m a slow reader…I know -_-)
So anyone have any suggestions? I like sci-fi, magic, things that are well written and fast paced.
…basically not stupid things.
Thanks Tumblr ^_^

  • The Jedi Apprentice Series.
  • A Wizard’s Dozen
  • Anything J.R. R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Terry Goodkind, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, John Green, Lemony Snicket, Stephen King, or Michael Crichton
  • Dealing with Dragons, and the other like three or four books that follow that one.
  • The Mists of Avalon
  • Ender’s Game
  • A Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The World According to Garp
  • Night
  • The Great Gatsby
  • All the Narnia books
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Howl’s Moving Castle
  • Sabriel and the other books for that series
  • A Wrinkle in Time (even though I’m not a HUGE fan of it, it is still worth reading once)
  • The Crystal Cave and all other Arthurian sagas from Mary Stewart
  • Wicked
  • Holes
  • The City of Ember
  • The Lovely Bones
  • The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
  • The Black Unicorn, The Gold Unicorn, and The Red Unicorn books
  • Into the Land of the Unicorns
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • The Bell Jar
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Touch the Top of the World
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • The Thursday Next series
  • The Looking Glass Wars Series
  • Anthem
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Princess Bride

And that should keep you busy for a few months…right?

(Reblogged from champagne-for-dinner)

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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45, and hopefully I’ll be able to cross off more after the end of this year :D

The Joy of Books

After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago, Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife decided to take it to the next level. They spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating…

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My grandmother sent me this, and I wanted to share this awesome with the rest of the world.