39 out of 100. Not great.

Feb 23, 2007 22:40



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 got books I've READ that I wish I had used a 10 foot pole to avoid, thus they are both BOLD and STRICKEN, -KC), put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) [I LOVE a good conspiracy theory. This was crap. Written like a middle school girl.  Pages of heinous description and a weak chain of stupid whodunnitness.  Hate hate hate.]
2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) [I hated Scout. Loved Atticus though.]
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)[I... Um... Didn't know it was a book. I could give that a try, but I'll be imagining Clark Gable the whole time.]
5. +++The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) [Seriously, I have three sets of LOTR.]
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)
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)[Saw the miniseries. Wow. It was like, forever long and stuff.  M-O-O-N spells OhMyGodPleaseLetThisBeOverAndDidTheySeriouslyIntendForHerHairToLookLikeThat?  And yet it was endlessly amusing.  Endlessly.  As in never ending.  But funny.]
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)[Almost hated it. Was Talked out of it. Really great adolescent train of thought writing, regardless.]
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) [Read this from our bookrack at work]
31. +Dune (Frank Herbert)[Lovelovelove.  But never ever would read the younger Herbert's attempt at extemding the series. Bah.]
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. +Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) [I like crazy politics. And I like Ayn. i used to think the name was Aynd Ran.]
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)[Also from the bookrack. I love it when days are slow]
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) [No offense to the book. But it's just too sad.]
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. +A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) [Tried it. But not dedicatedly yet.]
53. +Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) [I have tried three different Dickens' so far. I just cannot finish them. I like the writing, but it is like having Pizza every day. Yes, you love it. But after page 246 you reallyreallyreally could kill someone for a carrot stick.]
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 (Audrey Niffenegger)[LOVELOVELOVE. Best love story I've read in almost ever.]
61. +Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)[I love Russian lit. I'm afraid to take a class because I might die of happy, or have the appreciation beaten out of me.]
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) [I'll never finish it.]
63. +War and Peace (Tolstoy) - About a third of the way through and I love it! But it's so looong.
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) [The sequel wasn't as charming.]
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) [I remember this movie being long, and a guy being in a cave for a really long time. And then getting tired of waiting for him to get out of the cave.  But I liked the time period. I hope the book is more ... active.]
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) [I just can't care that much about a pig and a spider. I don't know why.]
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)[Intrigued by the beginning. Bored at the middle. Confused at the end. I either hated it, or am seriously missing some of the message. I'm not sure.]
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)[I don't know why I would reject it, but it looks untrustworthy,]
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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