LOST book list!

[Cheza]

A new feature on the ABC.COM site caught my eye, since I am a huge LOST fan. The site now is home to a list of all the literary works that have appeared in or been referenced throughout the series. The link is at the bottom of the homepage – The Lost Book Club. If you go to the site it will tell you how each book is important or what the reference was, and it also has a link to watch the episode in which the book appeared or was referenced. The creators say they won’t guarantee we’ll get any new insights into the show by reading these, but they are great books. How many have you read? I know I haven’t read that many of them…I’m ashamed to admit.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Boy Caseres

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Carrie by Stephen King

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Oath by John Lescroart

Afro-Asian World: A Cultural Understanding by Edward Kolevzon

The Coalwood Way by Homer Hicklam

The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Bluebeard by Charles Perrault

An Egg Workout: Exercises In Arrythmia Interpretation by Jane Huff

Dirty Work by Stuart Woods

High Hand by Gary Phillips

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

After All These Years by Susan Isaacs

Hindsights: The Wisdom and Breakthroughs of Remarkable People by Guy Kawasaki

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Bad Twin by Gary Troup

Bonjour, Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

Lancelot by Walker Percy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume

Musset: Poesies Completes, Tome 1 by Alfred de Musset

Little Red Riding Hood by The Brothers Grimm

Island by Aldous Huxley

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Walden Two by B.F. Skinner

Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Watership Down by Richard Adams

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’ Engle

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[blueeyz]

Cheza, thank you for posting this list. This is really cool!

[cfbj01]

Interesting Cheza. Thanks.

[grumpypirate]

Hee hee, thanks for this Cheza! Funny story abou this actually, in English this year we've been having to pick books to read off a list of the classics and a friend of mine couldn't find anything, so I fulled Catch 22 off the shelf and gave it to her to read simply because of the fact that it was mentioned on Lost. I told her to read it and report back to me. Hee hee, couldn't resist.

[Cheza]

Not to mention the references in character names..ahem...Rousseau, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham...

My students and I are about to work our way through A Tale of Two Cities in the coming month. I think the one on that list I really need to find is The Third Policeman...based on somit I read somewhere about it having an elevator (like the Orchid) and dealing with time travel.

[grumpypirate]

Hey Cheza, we're reading A Tale of Two Cities right now.