Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Literary Line-Up

I've been seeing this meme around, and decided to finally do it. As much as I love to read, Shrike accuses me of having read "nothing" in high school or college, because I somehow (despite my English degree!) managed to miss some of what she considers to be "the classics."

Maybe I'll catch them in 15 or 20 years when our (hypothetical) kid has to read them?

So, with that, away we go . . .

Instructions
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.
  • If there are any books on this list that I didn't italicize or bold, but you think I should read them, let me know in comments!
Note: I'm counting a book as "read" if I had it read to me as a kid, or if I listened to it as an audiobook. But not if I only saw the movie!
  1. The DaVinci 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 (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)

  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)

  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. The 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)

  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 Traveling 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)
Oh my, I'm afraid Shrike might be right. Maybe I can get her to post her list, and we'll compare.
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3 comments:

  1. Special K ~ToniMarch 13, 2007 at 10:28 PM

    How did you get around Great Expectations?? I thought everyone had to read that in school! You definitely have to read Memoirs of a Geisha- way better than that suck ass movie! Have you read anything by James Patterson? I LOVE his books! Every time we go from here(Abilene) to San Antonio to visit the in laws, I get another one of his books on CD- makes the 4 hour drive much better!

    Save War & Peace for when you are in labor, you'll have time. Unless you are one of those lucky women!

    P.S. Good luck tomorrow! Sending out super-d-duper good mojo for ya!

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  2. Special K ~ToniMarch 13, 2007 at 10:30 PM

    Oh I forgot #78 The World According to Garp- F*ing hilarious!

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  3. WhozatMarch 13, 2007 at 10:37 PM

    How did you get around Great Expectations??

    That's the kind of thing that Shrike asks me about many of those books.

    There are several books that I was supposed to read, but didn't actually, but I don't think any of the ones on the list.

    Well, actually I didn't read Pride and Prejudice twice (high school and college) but I did finally read it in my late 20s, along with two or three other Jane Austens that I'd not read in school.

    Now, I'm all about the audiobooks. When I was working I didn't have time to sit around and read (no excuse right now, really) but I did have a 45-minute, and then 1-hour commute (which I hope to have again soon).

    Shrike's got about a 30-minute commute herself, so we both love them.

    www.AudioToGo.com is great - like NetFlix, but for audiobooks.

    Oh, and listening to War & Peace sounds like the only thing that could possibly make labor more painful and interminable. shudder

    Thanks, re tomorrow - more on that in a minute!

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