Monday, April 2, 2007

Reading List

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.

*Cross out the ones you are so not interested in that you would never read.
If you are reading this: tag; you’re it!

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - line through
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) - I don't recall hearing of this one
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
18. The Stand (Stephen King) - I don't recall hearing of this one, but probably totally not interested
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit
22. The Catcher in the Rye(J.D. Salinger) - Might have read it in school, don't remember, not interested
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) - I don't recall hearing of this one
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) - I don't recall hearing of this one
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - not interested. I hated the movie.
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) - I don't recall hearing of this one
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) - I don't recall hearing of this one
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) - I don't recall hearing of this one
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) - I don't recall hearing of this one
39. the red tent(Anita Diamant) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) - I don't recall hearing of this one
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) - I don't recall hearing of this one
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis) - I don't recall hearing of this one
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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) - I don't recall hearing of this one
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay) - I don't recall hearing of this one
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) - I don't recall hearing of this one
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley) - I don't recall hearing of this one
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind) - I don't recall hearing of this one
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) - I don't recall hearing of this one
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago) - I don't recall hearing of this one
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer) - I don't recall hearing of this one
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) - I don't recall hearing of this one
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 think I read this in school.

I am surprised how many books I never even heard of. But, then, there are a lot of books out there. Some of them I read in school, but barely remember now. I may have read some of the others and have forgotten completely.

The question is which ones would you recommend and which would you read again? Not time for that, though. Break time is over.


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