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The Bookizie Tag

Nice game :)

RULES:
*Bold the titles you've read
*Italicize the ones you want to read
*Leave blank the ones that you aren't interested in.
* Add any 5 titles of your choice in this list,before you pass on the tag.

New Rule: Rate the books you have read from '*' (1) to '* * * * *' (5).

Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress
Ayn rand - The fountainhead
Ayn rand - Atlas shrugged
Anurag Mathur - The inscrutable Americans * * * * *....(psst...can i give s'more)
Arthur Hailey- Hotel
Alistair maclean - The guns of navarone
Anne frank- The diary of a young girl * * * * 1/2
Danielle Steel - Full circle * * *
Enid Blyton - the famous five series * * * * (loved them as a kid..still do)
Jeffery Archer - Not a penny more and not a penny less * * *
Jackie collins - Hollywood wives * *
James Hadley Chase - An ear to the ground
Ken follet - A place called freedom
Mario Puzo - the Godfather * * (honestly didnt find it such a big deal)
Micheal Crichton - Airframe
Mills and boons (all pretty much the same) * 1/2
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist * * *
Robert Ludlum - Trevayne
Sidney Sheldon - The sands of time * *
Suketu Mehta - The maximum city
Thomas Hardy - Far from the madding crowd * * *
Shrimad Bhagavad Gita
Dan Brown - The deception point * (Blergh... :P)
Emily Bronte- Wuthering heights * * *
Eric Segal - The Class
Mulk raj Anand - Coolie
R.K. Narayan - The English teacher * * *
J.k. Rowling - The Potter series * * * * *
Sidney Sheldon - A stranger in the mirror * * *
Agatha Christie - Curtain [ Poirot's last case ]
Bookworm's (aka jan) Recco.....
Chetan Bhagat - The Three Mistakes of My Life
Anita Desai - The Village By The Sea
Chetan Bhagat - Five Point Someone * * *
Paulo Coelho - Brida
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird * * * *
Sidney Sheldon - If tomorrow comes (aka Tracy Whitney) * * * *
Agatha Christie - And then there were none * * * *
PG Wodehouse series - includes Psmith, Blandings castle, Jeeves etc * * * * *
The five people you meet in heaven (sry cnt remembr the author) * * * *
Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge * * * * 1/2

And the tag goes to....Everybody who hasn't done it yet.

Comments

Tshhar Mangal said…
Omg
Mayor Of the caster bridge is the only book in my life, which i tore it into several pieces...
:D

And I totally agree with you on the Inscrutable Americans thing...

Btw
The great Lady Miss Aashi Joshi hasn't read Ayn Rand...
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
jan said…
the five ppl u meet in heaven is written by mitch albom, aashi. I jus read the book, it's so light, heart rendering and beautiful!

Do write a review on this book...will luv to read it.

keep bloggin'
jan.

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