Reading Fiction

This is the list of all the books I have read and will be adding more as I read. It looks awfully small now even though I started reading when I was thirteen years old. Thing is, I am awfully lazy to compile this list at one go! :)
  • Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  • Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  • Harry Potter Series - J.K.Rowling
  • Twilight Series - Stephanie Meyer
  • Vampire Diaries Series - LJ Smith
  • Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less - Jeffrey Archer
  • Paths of Glory - Jeffrey Archer
  • The Help - Kathyrn Stockett
  • The Confession - John Grisham
  • Theodre Boone - John Grisham
  • Where the rainbows end - Cecilia Ahern
  • The Gift - Cecilia Ahern
  • If you could see me now - Cecilia Ahern
  • The book of tomorrow - Cecilia Ahern
  • Thanks for the memories - Cecilia Ahern
  • The Tales of the beedle the bard - J K Rowling
  • Pixie story - the need - Carrie Jones
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • The Iron Fey Series - Julie Kagawa
  • The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  • The Fallen Series - Laura Kate
  • The Fallen - Thomas E.Sniegoski
  • The Insatiable - Meg Cabot
To be continued....

Do you remember all of them? Humour me...put in the last 10 books you read.
Noooo. You are not allowed to have a peek at your bookshelf! :D

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