Dymocks - 100 Books You've Never Read
February 8th 2007 07:36
Dymocks, one of Australia's biggest branches of booksellers, have a current promotion of '3 for 2' (three books for the price of two) on their '100 Books You've Never Read' list. Note it's not '100 Best Books You've Never Read'... it's kind of just an arbitary 100, not exactly a Top 100, though a great deal of the titles are or have been fairly popular with readers. Anyway, there are some interesting titles in the list, a lot of contemporary books and recent releases too, and (unlike Angus & Robertson's Top 100) they're not in any order and are assumedly just chosen by the company's marketing department...
100 Years of Solitutde - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
The Alchemist - Paolo Coehlo
The Alphabet Sisters - Monica McInnery
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Echo - Michael Connelly
The Bride-Stripped Bare - Anonymous (Nikki Gemmel)
The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
The Bronze Horsemen - Paulina Simmons
Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
Candy - Luke Davies
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Crimson Petal and White - Michel Faber
Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Emma - Jane Austen
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Eragon - ChrisopherPaolini
Fahrenheit 541 - Ray Bradbury
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
Highest Tide - Jim Lynch
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkein
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
Journey to the Stone Country - Alex Miller
The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
Last Drinks - Andrew McGahan
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little Women - Louise May Alcott
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Memory Keeper's Daughter -Kim Edwards
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
One Step Behind - Henning Mankell
On The Road - Jack Keruoac
The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Poet - Michael Connelly
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Polished Hoe - Austin Clarke
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
Restless - William Boyd
River God - Wilbur Smith
Romulus, My Father - Raimond Gaita
The Scarlatti Inheritance - Robert Ludlum
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaardner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
The Surgeon of Crawthorne - Simon Winchester
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffernegger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
The True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
I've only read sixteen of them. A lot of them are books I'd like to read though.
44 of the titles can also be found on the Angus and Robertson Top 100, so I guess (according to the big companies) there are only so many books out there worth reading...
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Comment by Nina
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Falling Haiku Leaf
Inner West Life
At least there is no Dan Brown in there!
Comment by Luke
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Cane Toad Warrior
Comment by Lilla
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Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
Impressive list, I think I've read a few, or more ... but not all ... yet!
Here in Q. there is a book chain called Borders. They have these enormous bookshops in the malls with Gloria Jeans coffee shops inside them.
You can sip your latte and are encouraged to read the books whilst you do. The atmosphere is brilliant and quieter than in the main part of the mall.
I can think of nothing better to do when waiting for a movie than to go a bit early, and grab a Chai and one of these titles, next time I’m there…
Thanks for the heads up and titles list.
Cheers
L.i.l.l.a
Comment by Luke
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Cane Toad Warrior
They're an American superstore chain... they've got a pretty good range.
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Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
Wish I'd read this when the sale was on but it was before my (Orble) time. Love book sales. Always buy a ton when I go to DFO!
Michaelie
Comment by Luke
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Cane Toad Warrior
What's DFO?
Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
A lot of big brands have stores there where they sell samples and seconds or last season stuff, or just excess stock.
They have Cue, Aquila, Charlie Brown, Billabong... heaps of things, plus a pretty big book store.
Comment by Luke
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Cane Toad Warrior
nah, I'm Western Sydney
there are some bookstores along those lines up... QBD is one, also there's one near Central Station and Angus & Robertson had temp stores set up that act as DFO-equivelents..
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