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Mar. 18, 2007

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I've seen this on a couple of blogs and it looked interesting, so here goes!

 

Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.

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)--I'm ashamed because I live in Georgia!
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)
*and the rest of the series
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)
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) *and everything else by 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)-technically still reading this one!
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)

Please, if you have read any of these that I have not, let me know the must-reads because some of these are not selected at all because I have not heard of them and I don't want to miss any MUST reads!

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Mar. 18, 2007 - Books

Posted by MonkeyMom
Well, here's my take on a few of the books you have listed:

Gone with the Wind - Very different from the movie. I read it in 4th grade - so I'm straining here. It was very awakening. The main character is seriously flawed.

Anything by Ayn Rand: just remember she is an atheist and a capitalist. Many very good points, but very unrealistic in her visions

Clavell (Shogun): I read this in 7th grade and need to strain here as well (anything more than 20 years ago is struggle). I remember all of his stories as being very intriguing, but the characters engaged in behavior that was inconsistent with my upbringing and caused me to look at morality a little differently.

Angels and Demons - far superior to The Da Vinci Code which I thought was a bore.

Good luck with the list!
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Mar. 19, 2007 - Hi!

Posted by Suzanne
Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. It was *very* encouraging!

Regarding all of these books... I feel too embarrassed to post my list. I fear I'm not very "well-read." Oh well. :-)
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Mar. 19, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by kympossible
Gone With The Wind - a very good read, I actually like it better than the movie.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - nice quick book to read, and I really enjoyed it. A nice story, if you remember that it's fiction and not theologically correct. ;~)

Shogun - fascinating story, a little more ummmm... detail than I needed in certain scenes.

You've read a lot more books on the list than I have!!! There's so many on that list I have not even heard of, much less read. But I'm going to give it a shot on my blog, simply because I do love to read and am always looking for great book suggestions for personal and book club reading.

Blessings,
Kym
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Mar. 20, 2007 - Catching up

Posted by MaxwellAcademy
Hadn't stopped by in a while, just wanted to let you know I was checking in on you and that I enjoyed your posts.
Dianna
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Mar. 22, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by DanielleW
Wow, you have read a lot of books. If I did this I would have to also color code the ones I read as Yuck, pretty good, or got out and get your own copy right now. LOL I've seen this on other's blogs too. I may yet do it but I'm not sure. Or I may just look through it get some ideas on what to read next. LOL
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