This makes two now. I must be stopped!
Anyway, the book meme (stolen from
wiscck). Books I've read are bolded. Books I intend to read are italicized. The list is long, so my comments will be short. Unless I have something interesting to say (which I won't), I'll stick to a simple rating: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Meh, Blech.
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Excellent.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - EXCELLENT!
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) - Excellent.
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) - Very good (this one took me three tries to get through--big hint: don't read the poems/songs).
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) - Excellent. I think this one's my favorite of the three.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) - Excellent.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) - Blech. HATE. A very very fast read, but...blech.
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) - Excellent.
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) - EXCELLENT! One of my favorite books ever. In the top 5 for sure.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling) - Very good. I want to give it an excellent just for being the first of such a wonderful series.
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) - Excellent. My favorite HP (but by a narrow margin).
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) - Excellent. Almost certainly in my top 10 all-time.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) - Blech. I might appreciate it more now than i did when I was 15, but...well, I doubt it. Holden bugs.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) - Excellent. I can't believe I waited until I was 18 to read it.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) - I'm saying I intend to read it because it's on my bookshelf. It's not a priority, though.
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - Very good.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) - Meh. Totally not what I was expecting, and not in a good way.
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) - Excellent, but I haven't read it since second grade, so...that's not a very reliable opinion. I should read it again. I liked it a lot.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) - Excellent. Truly excellent. I love Steinbeck, and this is a fantastic book.
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) - Meh. Read it in ninth grade. It didn't do much for me.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) - I'm saying I intend to read it because it's on my bookshelf. I may never get to it, though. I only got it because it was 50 cents at a used book sale (much like several other books on my bookshelf).
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) - EXCELLENT! Love this book. LOVE! Probably in my top 5.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) - Excellent. Read it in ninth grade for history class, if you can believe it, and I LOVED it! So good.
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) - Hee. I haven't read this and I don't intend to, but one of my college roommates was such a fan of this series.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - Comes highly recommended, so I plan to read it. Eventually.
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible - I didn't know what to do here. I've read a bunch of it, but not the whole thing. We read Genesis and Exodus in World Lit in high school, I've read other sections for fun, and read much of the New Testament back in Sunday School. But I've never read it cover to cover and I never intend to, so it gets neither bolded nor italicized.
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) - Sitting on my bookshelf, I think.
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) - EXCELLENT! Love. Steinbeck's an amazing writer, and this one's my favorite. It took me a while to get into, but once I did...WOW.
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) - Excellent.
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) - Excellent. Love it.
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) - I think it's on my bookshelf. I like Dickens, so I'll get to it one day.
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) - Good. I should read it again, since I read it for school in ninth grade and my grandmother swears it's better than I remember. :)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) - Very good.
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) - Very good.
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - My world lit teacher's favorite book, so I'm eager to read it sometime. It's on my bookshelf.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) - I'll give it a try sometime. It certainly gets talked about enough, so it'll be worth reading just so I can follow along.
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) - On my bookshelf, I think. Decent chance I'll never read it, but I'd like to.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - On my bookshelf. I've read a little Garcia-Marquez and I really like his writing, so I'll definitely read this eventually.
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) - Good. Not great.
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) - I've read it in three languages, even. I think my copy is actually in German.
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) - Very good.
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) - It's sitting on my bookshelf, so I italicized it. I may never read it, though.
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) - Ooh, love it. I read this right around the time I read The Chosen, which was my favorite book back in sixth or seventh grade, so they (understandably, I think) remind me of each other, and I love them both.
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving) - Very good. I'm a big Irving fan.
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) - Excellent. Although I haven't read it since second grade, I don't think. I really liked E.B. White back then. Particularly Stuart Little.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82.Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) - Excellent.
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen) - I have all of Austen's books. I just have to read them.
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams) - Good/Very Good. Unsure. I read it in sixth grade.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) - Excellent. Love this book to death. In my top 10, I'm sure.
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) - Good. I'd probably appreciate it more now than I did when I was 12.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) - I think this is on my bookshelf, hence the italics.
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) - Blech.
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
38 books read (if I counted correctly). Kind of low, but about what I would have guessed.
I'm kind of wishing I had a general book icon for this post, but since I don't, HP will have to do.