A Strange Little Book List
I got this from Thordora, but it's making the rounds, since I also saw it at Eden's.
Take the list below, paste it into your own blog, put READ next to those you’ve read, WANT TO next to those you are interested in, AGAIN & AGAIN next to those you’ve read and can’t stop, and leave blank those you don’t care to read. Put “MEH” for stuff you read and weren’t impressed by.and STARTED for those books that just never got finished.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) not on a bet
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Again & Again
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Again & Again
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Again & Again
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Read
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) Again & Again
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) Again & Again
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) Again & Again
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) Again & Again
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) Again & Again
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Read 3 chapters
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) Again & Again
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Read
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) Meh
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling) Again & Again
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald) Read
18. The Stand (Stephen King) Again & Again
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) Again & Again
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Again & Again
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) Again & Again
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Again & Again (I teach high school. There's a funny story here I'll tell you sometime)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Again & Again
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Read
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Again & Again
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Again & Again
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Again & Again
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Read a chapter
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Again & Again
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) Want to
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) Read
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) Again & Again
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) Started it and got bored
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) Want to
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible Read (I teach Catholic School)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Read (The Three Musketeers is better; I've lost count of how many times I've read that one)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) Read
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Read
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) Meh (Bean Trees is better)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) Meh
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Meh
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Meh
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence) Again & Again
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) Again & Again
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) Read
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) Again & Again
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) Again & Again
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis) Read
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) Read
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo) Read
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Read ( In French, even)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) Read
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) Read
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) Meh
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Again & Again
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay) Read (Everything by Kay, actually)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) AGAIN & AGAIN (Best Canadian Novel EVER)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Again and Again
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley) Read (and had him sign my copy)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) Read
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) Started it
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind) Want to
85. Emma (Jane Austen) Read
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) Read
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) Again & Again (English Teacher, remember?)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) Want to
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) Read
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) Read
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) Meh
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford) Meh
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) Anyone who says they've read it is lying.
Comments
#1: LOL same here
#22: Must. Hear. Story.
#38: Wow. I liked it. Maybe try again? I have so many I marked "started" b/c I had the same reaction
#51: Exactly. I was bored out of my mind.
#70: You are my heroine
#79: Hrm. Maybe I need a copy of this.
#81: Ooooh
#97: The metaphors drove me up a f-ing wall
ender's game is not worth your time. I loved the english patient and catcher in the rye. Do I get points for having read part of Ulysses?
ender's game is not worth your time. I loved the english patient and catcher in the rye. Do I get points for having read part of Ulysses?
Hey now, I've read Ulysses. Now if you said Finnegans Wake, I'd have to agree with you.
Ooooh, a book meme! I'll be doing this someday soon...
I liked Ender's Game. My son suggested it.
English Patient? Enjoyed the movie, but the book left me cold. I struggled with increasing futility through ten or more chapters, but never did finish.
I did enjoy Memoirs of a Geisha, though.
I don't seem to have any that I haven't read that I want to, probably because most of my reading decisions are not planned in advance, only made on the spur of the moment at the library. "Oh, *that* looks interesting!"
Ok, my bad. I always get Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake confused. Shows just how into early twentieth century Brit Lit I am (I actually took 18th Century lit just to avoid that course.)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Read Pride and Prejudice and almost all Jane Austen Read
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Again & Again
Gone With The Wind read
Lord of the Rings and The HObbit - read
Read almost everything by Margaret Atwood
The OUtsiders is my favorite (again and again)
REad all of Steinbeck
Loved The English Patient
Memoris of a Geisha -read
REad all of GAbriel Garcia Marquez
Brave New World -read
Atlas Shrugged -on my list
Mists of Avalon-one of my favorites
Jane Eyre- my favorite classic
Interview with the vampire )loved that and the next 2 in the series, should have ended there ,though.
I actually read Ulysses because I was an English Major in college.
Dune-couldn't get through it--I don't like science fiction
Totally agree on # 47. Too cool on #81! Definitey want to hear the story on #22. #100, I TRIED to read it. I really did. ugh! Got to meet #17 author when she was in town last year :)
you MUST read the kite runner. great book. love your blog, by the way. so many things you say really ring true. so...you have an avid expat canadian fan in thailand, just so you know!
