Fun and Games With Books
Via the Claw
Instructions for the "Book Meme List... Thing" which is circling the Blogging World this week: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole (I've highlighted these in RED instead), put a cross in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk* the ones you’ve never heard of.
(For the record, I've read 50 of the 100 books on the list.)
1. + The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) [A friend gave me an illustrated copy so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.]
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) [I dropped it after the first chapter; it was much worse then TDC]
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)*
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
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8 comments:
Good for you!!
Then again... many of the books you read that I haven't... don't strike me as particularly interesting. I remember you bitching about some of them. :-)
So good for you SOME of the time!
Well, thank you for that... I guess.
Well, OK, maybe I shouldn't say 'many' - more like 'some' - like the Celestine Prophecy.
The ones on your list that I feel I should read certainly outnumber the ones I don't!
The Celestine Prophecy *was* pretty terrible! :P
But The Outsiders and Watership Down were brilliant.
Hey now, I liked The Celestine Prophecy when I was ten and thought it was the best jungle adventure with auras ever. (Parts of it happened in a jungle right? Maybe somewhere in the mountains, somewhere...rural?) How saddened I was to have those memories tainted by a bunch of crazy new age hippies who took it as some weird spiritual guide.
Fifty is pretty impressive.
It's a jungle adventure?! I thought it was just a spiritual guide.
Shows what I know.
Yep, it was set in South America! I'm pretty sure a large chunk of it was in the jungle.
It would have been great if it had been more Indian-Jones-ish. But as it was, it lacked action and the 'enlightening parts' weren't all that enlightening, were they? :P
Oh, and thank you!
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