I (Heart) Books

Got this from Ragan's blog. Look at the list of books below: * Bold the ones you’ve read * Italicize the ones you want to read * Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. 1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) 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) 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) ?? Can't remember, but I don't think so. 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)--GREAT book! 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)--Another GREAT book! 45. The 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 Traveller’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) What amazes me is not how many of these I've read (and I think I've done pretty well here...) but how many I've never even heard of! How do you score? ETA: I just found this on my friend Holly's blog: How cool is that? I think I'm creating my own list of 12 books to read this year (and seeing as it's March, I'm adding two books that I've already read. Wanna be even and all that). Here they are: 1. The Tenth Circle (Jodi Picoult) 2. The Plain Truth (Jodi Picoult) 3. Freakonomics (don't know) 4. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver) 5. The Time Traveler's Wife (Nieffenberger) 6. Water for Elephants (Gruen) 7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) 8. The Baker's Apprentice (Hendricks) 9. Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space (Culbertson) 10. Mrs. Kimble (Haigh) 11. A Confederacy of Dunces (O'Toole) 12. Pride and Prejudice (Austen) How 'bout you -- what 12 books do you want to read this year?

Comments

[~Kristie]

I'm completely SHOCKED that I've read two books that you haven't, Wuthering Heights and The Time Travellers Wife. Your list though still proves to me that I don't read enough. Maybe I should get rid of my tv also? DH would kill me!

[Maria]

Wow, I'll work on my list from home tonight...I have read many, but not nearly as many as you! Wow...very cool.

[Maria]

Of course I still haven't worked on my list....but I will. Promise! There are at least three of your 12 must-read books that I should include in mine! I did read O'Tolle's Confederacy of Dunces....YOU WILL LOVE IT! It is funny, throughly involving, thought-provoking and simply brilliant (do I sound like a reviewer already, tee hee.) But really. It's that good. I think I'll re-read that one again! :)

[Maggie May]

I am such a nerd and a web lurker. Love your site. Read every book on the list but one. Youch. We were not allowed to watch TV growing up, so I read. I still mourn The Brady Bunch episodes I missed. What does having a "Marsha moment" mean?? One of my current faves is definately "The Time Traveler's Wife." A book you wish you had not read, so you could read it again.

[Holly of HollYarns]

You are going to love the time traveler's wife. Delish!

[Karen]

Time Traveler's Wife is a fabulous read. Good luck with your reading list.

[Kirsty]

Awesome list! You need to change Fall on Your Knees to must read....it's a great book!