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As seen on Claire's blog:

Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Leave the rest. Pass it on:

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger <--I LOVED this book.
7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Neuromancer - William Gibson
26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley <--highly recommend
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan
42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
46. Dune - Frank Herbert
47. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
48. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
49. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
50. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Always good to have some suggestions for reading, even if it is harder to find those books over here.

I went to Torino this past weekend and I had a lot of fun... we got to see a lot of the venues for the olympics like the piazza where the medal ceremonies will be held, and the rink where the skating will be (only the outside though) and the olympic village and snowboarding facility at Bardonecchio. I also tried skiing there, but the italian definition of an "easy" slope is definitely different from MD! I was on my butt a good portion of the time going down that easy slope and I was being passed by whole groups of approximately 4 year old italian children who were pretty much wider than they were tall with the snowsuits they had on. It gave me a new degree of admiration for the skiiers and snowboarders you see on TV, which somehow just never quite manages to convey the steepness of the hills that those guys are going down and the sharpness of the turns and the speed that they have. It's incredible, really. I'll have to post some of the pictures when I get them onto the computer.