book meme

Stolen from lazygal.

Instructions: in bold=have read the book; in italics=want to read the book; with crosses=own the book; with asterisks=unfamiliar with the book.

1. †The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (ick)
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) (my FAVORITE book, if such a thing can be said)
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) (one of two classics I like)
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) (liked it a ton)
25. †Life of Pi (Yann Martel) (one of my favorites)
26. †The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. †Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) (the other classic I like)
28. †The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. †East of Eden (John Steinbeck) (if this counts as a classic, add it to the list I like. no, love.)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. †Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) (Wes likes Ayn. Does this surprise anyone?)
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)
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) (love this book, read it over and over, now have guilt because found out he is an anti-choice Mormon freak, feel terribly conflicted about my love)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) (yes, I know that even people who don't like classics are supposed to like Dickens but I just. don't. OK?)
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) (one of my favorite authors, very influential to me)
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 Davies)
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) (love all his books, love his ability to craft plot and make it all fit, he makes me want to write and write)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. †Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. †Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley) (looks like no one knows this book. my Canadian great-aunt who was a librarian sent it to me after we met at a family reunion in 1996. it's good.)
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) (as explained below)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Notes: It is hard to remember if I own some of these because sometimes Wes has it and I forget or I put it in GMB's room so long ago I am not sure. I am interested in the fact that there are no italics - nothing I am all that interested in reading that I haven't. I am going through a totally ambivalent phase in my reading, unfortunately. And you may be able to tell from this that I am not into classics. I actually actively don't like many of them. And finally, I just have to say that I own and have read The Celestine Prophecy ONLY because my mother had a new-agey side to her and made me read it and I had trouble getting rid of it since it was hers. I predict it will be sold in this upcoming move - I get less sentimental the longer I live in NYC. Oh - and I don't know how to make the little crosses so don't ask me. I just copy and pasted them where I needed.

Comments

[Wes]

Did I know you've never read Crime and Punishment? I might have called off our wedding had I known.

[bri]

And I might have done the same if I had known you had never seen Gone with the Wind.

[MsDee]

Arrggh I answered them all and then couldnt get it ot bold or italicize

[WisdomWeasel]

You have to ammend this list to tell us which ones you loved, which ones were eh, and which ones you hated beyond reasonable measure.

[Beth]

"yes, I know that even people who don't like classics are supposed to like Dickens but I just. don't. OK?"

I am so with you. I blame the "Illustrated Classics" my parents gave me as a kid. I loved the abridged, illustrated versions - so full of action! And then I read the real thing in junior high and high school. Three pages of description of snow falling (Christmas Carol) totally ended my love of Dickens.