100 Books

Taken from the posts of friends Heidi and Oliver, I figured I should post my own version of the 100 Books, since it seems I am the odd one out by actually liking Russian literature (of course, I'm also the odd woman out, as I do not like Jane Austen novels. Lest I be condemned of heresey, I've tried. I've read some, seen some of the movies, and absolutely cannot make myself become enamored of them - even as a tribute to my gender).

Instructions: In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, put the pound sign (#) in front of the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of. I am adding that I am CAPITALIZING my favorites, because I'm bored.

+ 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 (J.R.R. Tolkien)
+ 6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
+ 7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (J.R.R. 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 (J.K. Rowling)
+ 12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
+ 13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
#14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) - After reading several of his books, I gave up on John Irving after The Fourth Hand, vowing never to return.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
+ 16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
# 18. The Stand (Stephen King)
+ 19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
+20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
+ 21. The Hobbit (J.R.R. 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) - I tried. I really tried. I hated it and stopped part way through.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
#33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (George 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 (Leo 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 (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald)
* 56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
+ 57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
* 59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
+ 61. CRIME & 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 (Victor Hugo) - I have to note this is my favorite book ever.
+ 70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Helen Fielding)
* 72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia 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) -see my earlier disclaimer about 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 (John 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 (Michael Ondaatje)
# 92. Lord of the Flies (William 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)