I've been reading a bit lately. Quite a bit, actually. Thanks to living with the in-laws, I have been making up for all those years of not having a break. Once the in-laws make it home in the evenings, all the girls want to do is play with them until we start the bedtime routine. Sooo, that usually means I get a little bit of reading time. I also have a 30-minute train ride into the city at least 2 days a week and another 30-minute train ride home. More reading time. I decided I needed to read some "good" stuff, because most of what I was reading was fluff. I happened across a few gems, but not enough to rely on just happening across them during my library roaming. I found this list over at another blog. I bolded the ones I've read. Tell me your favorites!
1. The Da Vinci 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. Bible - most, but not all
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 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)
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) *
I've just finished Great Expectations, and will be starting on Brave New World soon followed by A Prayer for Owen Meary. The ones with an asterisk, means they are next on my list. I'm not planning on reading them in any particular order, it's just whatever the library has in at the moment. I might be inclined to make an exception if someone gives me an outstanding recommendation. :)
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That is a great list! It sort of reminds me of the required reading list we had senior year in high school!
I love, Gone with the Wind, The Cather in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, The Thorn Birds, Interview with a Vampire and Of Mice and Men.
My most recent read was Interview with a Vampire a couple of months ago. I definitely need to start reading more--that was my most favorie hobby before kids!!
oh no, you've done it now...i'm a bookaholic and can blather on all day...here goes...
well, i of course MUST recommend gone w/ the wind. my favorite book AND movie. I noticed that crime and punishment was on your * list...i recommend that one as well. it was very interesting and perhaps a bit depressing...and it can be a long read...but i enjoyed it very much.
anything anne rice is pretty much a shoe-in for a captivating read. i thought that interview with the vampire moved a little slow, but her following novels were very gripping.
i see that you've read pride and prejudice, another of my VERY favorites. i noticed a couple other jane austen novels in the list -- i recommend ALL of them. big fan here.
and if you enjoy a good sci-fi romp, ender's game is numero uno. absolutely wonderful book. i might suggest that one as your next read. it really kept me captivated (of course i was in high school when i read it, but i remember just loving it).
i could go on...and on...but i'll spare you. glad that you have time to read again.
Whenever I checked out Gone with the Wind, I remembered it was your favorite and I knew you would recommend that one, Michee!! :)
East of Eden is my absolute favorite book of all time. I'm currently reading Les Miserables. A definite good read. It's been referred to as the best book of our times.
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