Update: Click here for the new Lost Book Club index page. I am no longer updating this page.
Last May, I started writing about the books that appear on ABC’s Lost.
Here’s a list of what I’ve read with links to the posts about the books:
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Blume)
- The Turn of the Screw (James)
- “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” (Bierce)
- A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle)
- Lancelot (Walker)
- Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
- Lord of the Flies (Golding)
- Bad Twin (Troup)
- The Wizard of Oz (Baum)
- Watership Down (Adams)
- The Third Policeman (O’Brien)
- Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
- A Brief History of Time (Hawking)
- Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
- Carrie (King)
- Catch-22 (Heller)
Here’s what I still need to read (or skim over again before writing about):
- Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)
- On Writing (King)
- Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov)
- The Fountainhead (Rand)
- Evil Under the Sun (Christie)
I will update this post as I read and review the Lost books, and as other books appear.
James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.
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Hi, I am just starting a little Lost book club myself. My husband and I are reading them. I found a nice list on Lostpedia and also found some others not on the list through other info. JJ Abrahms admits in an interview that The Stand is a huge influence on the Lost series. It has not been alluded to or read in the show, but I thought you might be interested to know about that. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the books.
I’d started with the wikipedia list before I’d heard of Lostpedia, so I know this isn’t comprehensive, but it’s close enough. I think you’re right about The Stand, though. I should probably add it.
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You missed “Morel´s Invention” a book by Adolfo Bioy Casares readed by Sawyer on the 4th chapter.