In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.
Some of you will be horrified by what I haven't read:
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) (heretical)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) (partially read. I remember Scarlett had a 16 inch waist.)
5. +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) (I know! I know! I’m sorry!)
6. +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. +The Lord of the Rings:
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) (witchcraft?)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Another Dan Brown. Enough said.
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving).
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden).
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)18. The Stand (Stephen King) (horror)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) (wrote my AP English Lit free response essay on this)
21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien) (I think I finished it…?)
22. +The Catcher in the
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.
28. +The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) (whole series)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck).
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert).
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) (probably too sappy)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) Checked out one of her books (might have been The Fountainhead) one summer in
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) (probably too sappy)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) (read about 1/3 of it. And the end, of course. The end was good.)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb) (read most of it. It was all right- not particularly recommended.)
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) (okay, okay, I read about the first 100 pages of it, which hardly qualifies as the whole thing. But I was only in fourth or fifth grade. Cut me some slack. I remember being impressed by the vodka-drinking and confused by the endless variations on nicknames.)64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice) (scary!)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) (read first five pages or so)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) (Haven’t read it, although I had to think for a minute; I was remembering watching “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
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) (New Age movement…? J)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in
78. *The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80.
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) (read excerpt in ABecka reading book…?)
94. +The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd). Nate gave it to me for Christmas one year. I didn’t finish it.
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). Peter read the end to me in college. That counts.
2 comments:
You did finish 'The Hobbit'. Or at least I finished reading it to you :-).
good choice on the ayn rand. i read atlas shrugged last summer, and, oh, it was painful. a good deal of it is straight philosophy... on top of that it is straight philosophy that is so not true...
also, you should read the sisterhood of the traveling pants. i am a fan. woot.
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