A Reading List According to You

Lisa Samson tagged me for this little goodie. If you'd like to play, consider yourself tagged!  Directions follow:  -BJ

Bold the ones you've read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
Leave in normal text the ones that don't interest you.
Put in ALL CAPS those you haven't heard of.
Put a couple of asterisks**by the ones you recommend.
Like Lisa, I put a ++ by those I started but didn't finish. 

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 Sorcerer's Stone (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 Goblet of Fire (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 Shopahaulic (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 (Audrey 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 Davies)
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 (Victor Hugo)**
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)** 
71. Bridget Jones’s 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)
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 (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)

Comments

[Katy McKenna]

BJ--We've read and enjoyed a very similar list. And while I THINK I can highly recommend A Little Prince, I'm not 100% positive, as I've only read it in French! :)

[KATHERINE MARY]

BOOKS I GIVE ***** STARS
ANGELS & DEMONS- DAN BROWN
TUES. WITH MORRIE- M.ALBOM
MEMORIS OF A GEISHA- A. GOLDEN
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH- KEN FOLLETT ******* WONDERFUL BOOK, YOU WILL WANT TO READ IT OFTEN.
MY LOVE AND PRAYERS, KATHERINE MARY

[BJ]

Theresa--Thanks for the heads-up on *Anna Karenina.* You've convinced me to try it!

Carrie--As for the *Poisonwood Bible,* I think one of the reasons I enjoyed it as much as I did was due to Kingsolver's brilliant way of writing in such individually distinct voices. I suppose I can't help reading like a writer, and her ability to tell that story so clearly and so creatively really appealed to me.

BJ

[Carrie K.]

I love it when someone is honest enough to admit not liking a "classic"! I tried "Howard's End" last year and found it a yawn. I also couldn't finish "Poisonwood Bible." I gave it a hundred pages, and then gave up, but I know many, many people who absolutely love that book! Too many good books, too little time.

I do, however, love Jane Austen. :)

[Theresa]

Oh, you must, must read Anna Karenina!!!! I read it on a librarian friend's recommendation two summers ago and now I re-read it every summer!
Also Emma is the best Austen book, if you want to give it another try...hang in there and you will really like it! (It gets better as yo go...) Emma is a riot. She is very much like "us", manipulative and very surprised (and indignant) when someone gives her her own medicine!
Blessings, Theresa

[BJ]

Carrie--why didn't I recommend Pride and Prejudice? Because I thought it was boring. (I know all things Austen are on a roll these days, but I have never liked her books.) BJ

[Carrie K.]

Okay, I'll bite. Why don't you recommend Pride and Prejudice?