I'm sick (again) and I have absolutely no engergy. I've also just lost a good friend due to a complete failure on my part, so I'm not quite a real blogging mood. So I found this meme on Kelly Para's site and it seemed like fun.
Instructions: In the list of books below:
Bold the ones you’ve read
Italicize the ones you want to read
Mark in RED the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole
Put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf
Mark an asterisk (*) beside the ones you’ve never heard of
Mark with # if you've seen the movie
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 Sorcerors'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)
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) #
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) #
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) (Ayn Rand scares me)
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
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) # (several versions)
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 Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo) # (well I've seen the musical several times, does that count)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) (actually read it in french)
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)
I've read at least a 1/4 of these books, and I consider myself well-read. Clearly I've also seen alot of the movie versions!
Thanks for reading,
EKM
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