Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Book Meme

This is totally up my alley, thanks to A Girl and A Boy (someday I'll link, the few who read this know who I mean though.)

In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, red 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. In the comments, let me know if you're up for it; I'd love to see if y'all have been puttin your book-learnin' to good use.

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)- I am obsessed and own every book the author has ever written, including those out of print
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) HATE King
19. +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien)--tried it as a kid, never got into it, tried again, still not interested
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
23. +Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)--And all her other books. I go through author phases.
24. +The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)-I have this, just haven't gotten around to reading it
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)-This should be #42
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)--I tried but never finished
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)--I HATED 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)--I would prefer not to read Dickens
53. +Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)- Thanks MLE!
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)6
2. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)--
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)--Never interested
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)--En Francais of course
71. +Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)--
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)--
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)--Couldn't bring myself to read it after the movie
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 (Steinbecck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)--Put me into a HUGE DuMaurier phase. I've read most of her books
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. +Emma (Jane Austen)--Jane Austen can do no wrong
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)--Simon insists this is awesome
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)- UGH
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)--Had to read it in high school

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I totally admire your dedicate to Montgomery. I was kind of the same way with Laura Ingalls Wilder. :)

(Did they seriously make you read Ulysses in high school?! Was it high school in prison?)

Yank In Texas said...

Yeah, I had that phase too, for Laura Ingalls Wilder, to the point of dressing as her for Halloween and all that. I am a phase person.
And I read Ulysses for AP English I think. It also could have been 10th grade. We had a tough but excellent English department.
I only took 2 English classes in college (101 and a Lit class- French/Int'l Affairs major) and we definitely didn't read it then.