100 Books Meme

[akujunkan]

Courtesy of firesign10: Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you plan on reading.


I've also taken the liberty of underlining the ones I just could not bring myself to finish.

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) - Abandon all hope ye who read this.
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Easily my favorite by Austen.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - Wonderful book. I have such a literary crush on Atticus.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) - Started me reading.
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) - Introduced Faramir, another litcrush.
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) - I <3 these books.
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) - I need to reread this to see if it was as good as it seemed when I was 14.
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) - My favorite HP book, thanks to the high Snape quotient.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) - Made it two pages in before my eyes started spritzing blood, forcing me to quit.
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) - BACK AWAY SLOWLY FROM THE CAPS LOCK KEY, MS. ROWLING!
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Loved it.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) - In a word, horrid.
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling) - Thank you for keeping the original title, meme.
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18 The Stand (Stephen King) - Just can't read King.
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) - Read this on a redeye flight back Stateside.
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) - Awesome book, aside from the draggy bit in the middle.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Read this one at the age of seven, when one out of ten words were new to me..
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) - Tried reading this book at 10, which is much too young.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) - Good book which could have been great if Sebold hadn't taken the easy way out on a few major plot points.
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) - Currently reading.
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - Number 42: The Larch.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) - Another one I tried reading far too young.
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) - I completely flummoxed my 4th grade teacher by suggesting that the book would have been told completely differently from the White Witch's perspective.
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) - I know, I know. I will get around to it, I promise.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) - My second favorite book, following Lord Of The Rings.
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) - Not being a huge fan of feel-good pop spirituality novels...
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) - I started reading this one at the age of 11, but stopped when I realised I could just skim through to the sex.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) - and not just thanks to Gankutsuoh.
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) - I really should read this, as I've owned a copy for half a decade now.
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) - It's in the queue.
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) - It comes highly recommended by several trusted friends.
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) - Thank god I don't have to read it again.
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) - Please see #52.
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) - Overrated.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) - Easily the worst of the bunch.
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) - "That would never happen in real life," said a male classmate. "Just look at the Taliban," I said. Of course, this was in '98, so no one knew what I was talking about.
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) - My father highly recommends this one.
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) - The only worthwhile thing she's written.
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - Stay far, far away.
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) - Yossarian lives!
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) Pride And Prejudice for those who can't be bothered.
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) - amasugiru will understand why I never made it through this one.
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay) - I'm planning on rereading it soon.
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) - Fabulously creepy book.
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams) - Made me hate rabbits for about 10 years until I recovered.
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) I have it, but I'm in no hurry to read it.
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) One of these days, just to see if I can do it.



That will be all.

Comments

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

introduced Faramir, another litcrush
Didn't read the book... but I guess if I read it (in the future) I would firmly say: Seconded!

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

re Dan Brown. I can't read his works at all. I said to Pete that if he were to have posted these works to the internet¹ instead of sending them to a publisher, he would have been ripped to pieces.

Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is overrated I think. I much preferred Of Mice and Men. I vaguely remember The Pearl being better than GoW too. Been 20 years since I've read any of them mind you.

I'm surprised you've not read 1984. I swear modern governments use it as a guide on how to spindoctor effectively.


Just can't read King.

What?! OMG!! *defriendz* :P


¹By internet, I mean any fanfic or fic mailing list or comm I've been on. And probably would have made it to a top 10 on a badfics rec comm.