My friend who blogs at My Own Velvet Room had this list posted today. The object is to bold the books you have read, and italicize those you wish to read. Guess I'd better get crackin'!
1. The Da Vinci 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 Philosopher’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) - maybe in H.S., can’t remember
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)**
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)- tried, but I just hate books where bad stuff happens to kids, so I gave up
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) - again, maybe in HS
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 - but not all, by a long shot!
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 (Audrey 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 Travelling 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) - tried, but again it was that kid thing that stopped me
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
What would your list look like? Of the ones I have yet to read, are there any that you really loved? I put asterisks by the ones I liked, two if I adored it. Based on my favorites, have you got any other suggestions for me?
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Hi! I love this list. I'm reading A Fine Balance right now. I HIGHLY recommend anything by Wally Lamb. He is one of my all-time favorite writers. In addition, I like Michael Ondaatje, but I don't think that the English Patient is his best. I prefer his other books, like Running in the Family.
I went to go see Jodi Picoult speak tonight about her new book, Handle With Care. She's not my favorite author as she's a bit "pop" fiction, but it was great to see her talk tonight and share about her writing process. So cool! So, I have a newly signed copy of her new book. I do like how she always brings up good ethical dilemma from multiple perspectives.
So, there's my 2 cents worth.
Thanks Jess. That's a couple of the authors I was wondering about. I read a couple of Jodi's earlier books, and really liked them, but haven't read any of her more recent stuff. I remember thinking the same thing, that she really made you think about all the different points of view - like the one about having another baby just to save the life of your sick firstborn. Very interesting.
Becky, have you read "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" or any of Jill Connor Browne's "Sweet Potato Queens" books? I too loved "The Time Traveler's Wife"; check out this recent NY Times article about Niffenegger's second book, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/books/11niff.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Niffenegger&st=cse.
I have every one of Jodi Picoult's books, and the most recent one is on order from Amazon. She's one of my favorite authors, except for the one that she wrote about comic books (can't recall the name right now). Isn't it fun looking back at books we've read and remembering them!
Yes, this was a blast. Thanks Linda, for passing it on. I did read the Ya Ya's and the Sweet Potato Gals, and going through this list made me think of so many other books that I loved, but can't quite remember the names of or the authors. I'm thinking I need a separate book journal, to keep track of the ones I loved, and favorite authors. That way, whenever I happen to be in the library or Half Price, I know where to start looking!
For some reason I thought of you when I stumbled across this vampire book set in Austin; did you say one time that you'd read the Twilight series?
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781101445747,00.html?sym=EXC
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