Read the 'Observer' newspapers 100 greatest novels

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Atticus said to Jem, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever hear Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “You’re father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird.”

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it…Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

How are we all going about this? I have a thing about doing tasks in order, but i can’t help but think theres some books im really looking forward to reading that i don’t want to have to get through 50 odd books in order to start! :)

I figure this will go well with my ‘rejoin the library’ and ‘read 50 books in 2006’ goals. I’ve already read 8 of the books on the list, but some were a long time ago (years!) so i guess i’ll start again, it’ll feel better that way. :)