Book List

Directions
Bold the ones you’ve read
italicize the ones you want to read
cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole- I don't know how to do the strike through thing here, so I'll put them in brackets.
+ put a cross in front of the ones on your book shelf
* the ones you’ve never heard of

1. +The Da Vinci Code
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. +The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)How can I be a Canadian and not have read it
9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. *Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling))
14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. +Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. *The Stand (Stephen King)
19. +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. *Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. *East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. *Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. *Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. (The Notebook) (Nicholas Sparks)
33. *Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. *The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. *I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. +The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. *Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. +Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. *The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. *The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. (Interview With The Vampire) (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)]
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. +Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. *Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. *Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. *The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. *The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. +The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. (A Woman of Substance) (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. +Ulysses (James Joyce)

I do not think there is a book that I would not try to read, I would keep an open mind. However The Notebook movie hit a very very hurtful spot in me, and I doubt I could read the book.
My most read books ever are the Hobbit and LOTR. I started reading them about age 10 and have worn more than one set out. There is always something new in them. The Stand is also one that I have read over and over and over. The Catcher in the Rye was banned from schools here a few years ago and I always wondered why. As for the 'classics' can you tell I skipped lit class a lot. LOL

Comments

Nancyroo said…
Okay, now I feel like a loser. I could not make heads or tails out of Ulysses, tried to read it twice, mind you....and both you and Georgina have not only read it, but own a copy. Guess I should try again.
6:55 AM
Leslie said…
ok I love to read and here's what I've read off that list. Like you I try to read lots of different things. Some of these I read in school and had no choice but to read them but for the most part I read the rest for pleasure.
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)How can I be a Canadian and not have read it
9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. *Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling))
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. +Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
19. +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
26. *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
44. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
57. +Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
60. *The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
80. +Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
94. *The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. (A Woman of Substance) (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
8:28 AM
Becky said…
Very cool! I just copied it to my blog too :)
10:43 AM
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