March 06, 2007
I'm Finally Back, What Should I Do?

I know! A meme!

Cagey and I were hanging out and knitting this weekend and she mentioned to me that she had recently finished a meme that she really thought I should do. And since I'm trying to get back into the swing of things around here, and since the meme was about books, and since blogging about books means not blogging about the crazy, I decided to give it a go.

In the list of books below:
- make the ones you've read blue
- make your personal favorites purple (Cagey added this category)
- make the one you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole red
- italicize the ones you want to read
- put a plus (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf
- and an asterisk (*) in front of the ones you’ve never heard of.

If you do the meme, please let me know, as I'd love to see your list!

  1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
  2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  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) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
  24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) -- I was supposed to read this a few months back - eek.
  25. +Life of Pi (Yann Martel) -- LOVE
  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) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  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 -- I have quite a few copies and have read them many times -- don't be jealous
  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) -- How long can it take a turtle to cross a street? Five pages, apparently.
  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) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  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) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  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) -- Book Club for April
  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) -- I don't know how I've gotten so far without reading it -- Must read next year
  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 (Steinbecck)
  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) -- on the Great Booklist of 2007
  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)

This list took forever because I had to do all the numbers and colors in HTML (not a problem I think if you use Blogger). I'm kind of mortified to tell the Internet which books I'd never heard of, since I'm sure I'll come off like a cultural illiterate. But there it is.

Posted by Bethiclaus at March 6, 2007 06:48 AM
Comments

That's a great list ... I'll see if I can get through it!

Posted by: PunditMom at March 7, 2007 09:51 AM

I'm going to do this on Jodifur. Love it!

Posted by: jodi at March 7, 2007 08:57 PM

I tagged you for a me-me...much shorter than this one.....please???

Posted by: Jerri Ann at March 8, 2007 07:55 PM