having just read the rathiho top 100 list on the yahoogroups, i feel somewhat unliterary, so to bolster my flagging confidence, i shall post my own list.

and in case you were thinking nasty thoughts (vaish this means you) this is not a list of all the books i've read. additional disclaimer: please consult me if you intend to read any of them, because most some have Content. * means i have them, but doesn't mean i will lend them to you. accompanied by a rather bad one-liner summary and the mood i am in when i read them. uh check amazon if you want more info la. or ask me.

/A Clockwork Orange, Antony Burgess*
alex and gang rape and rob in a futuristic world.
read if: pissed off at world and feeling macabre.
/Fury, Salman Rushdie*
brilliant academic in new york, guess from the title.
read if: intellectually inclined and in need of deep thought about the Global Society We Live In
/Complicity, Iain Banks*
cameron colley, reporter, has a rather mysterious source on a number of macabre andn gristly murders.
read if: uhhh. sick-minded?
/The Business, Iain Banks
kate telman is a highly ranked executive in a corporation that beats microsoft at the insidious domination thingummy.
read if: in an Evil Overlord/kickass females mood
/Song of Stone, Iain Banks*
an exnoble has his castle overrun by soldiers as war decomposes the region around them.
read if: tired of just hearing the statistics on the news.
/Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
brooklyn dude with tourette's syndrome has to solve the mystery of his boss' murder.
read if: inclined towards noir mystery with a scifi touch
/Gun With Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem
futuristic world where animals act like humans and drugs are freely avaliable in makeries, a private eye has to try to absolve a man from guilt.
read if: you are also reading motherless brooklyn
/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling*
no need to say anything
/Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett*
part of pratchett's discworld series. an adaptation of shakespeare's midsummer night's dream with Real Witches and Bad Elves
read if: feeling Occult.
/Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett*
also part of the discworld series. i can't really describe the book. look up amazon.
read if: temporally disturbed; or in need of a hilarious blockbuster that doesnt have arnold schwarzeneggar running for california state governer.
/Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding*
also no need to say anything.
/Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
i refer you to the movie or amazon.
read if: you think martin amis is a pansy.
/Lord of the Rings (all 3), JRR Tolkien*
really. why'm i even bothering to fill in the blank space.
/The Romance of Tristram, Beroul et al
one of the earliest recorded stories. beautiful, poisoned fairytale.
read if: well, if you need a 'beautiful, poisoned fairytale' you know where to get one.
/The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
think we've all read this.
/1984, George Orwell
ditto.
/The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
ditto
/The Hours, Michael Cunningham*
i also refer you to the movie.
/The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss*
if you haven't read this to a small child, shame on you. go hinder help their education.
/The Chrysalids, John Wyndham*
a telepathic group of children are persecuted in a society where religion and dogma dictate all.
read if: you want a less subtle attack on religion than eliot.
/Foundation, Isaac Asimov
gah. you Have to read the series.
/Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte*
a classic?? [bolts and runs]
/Dune, Frank Herbert
Ditto series must-read.
/Goodnight, Mister Tom, Margaret Magoriam*
set in ww2 england, an old man takes in a boy from london. come to think of, an interesting comparison to silas marner.
read if: not in a silas marner mood.
/Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
bathsheba everdene (kickass name!!) has 3 suitors. do the math.
read if: if you like eustacia vye? i like eustacia and bathsheba a lot.
/Memoirs of a Geisha, Arther Golden*
ah we've all read this too.
/Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*
APOCALYPSE. sort of. check amazon on this too.
read if: hello! look at the two authors! hello! no if!
/The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Sue Townsend
if you havent read this you must have slept thru puberty or something.
/The Little Prince, Antony St Exupery*
i'm tired of writing bad summaries. could you tell, from all the excuses from sumarry writing i wrote above?
read if: you want to read something more advanced than cat in the hat to your small child.
/The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
bunch of virgin sisters commit suicide one after another. could any title be more self-explanatory?
read if: in a slightly macabre, but still beautiful mood
/Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
in the future, all children are tested and the best are sent to be trained to direct armies. this is a really bad summary.
read if: you have an opinion on children.
/Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
prequel to the above, and to be honest, i like it better.
/The Giver, Lois Lowry
crap. i can't remember. but it's good. yup.
/Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
jews somewhere in the middle of ww2. from the pov of a girl about 13ish? can't remember either.

ok that was damn taxing. i ran thru my bookshelves, checked under my bed, pulled out drawers- just to compile a list of books i like. -___- and i wrote all those crap summaries. or came up with excuses not to. very tiring. ooh. someone feed me icecream in reward.