Tagged on Books...
AmKsheOref has tagged me - days ago, now - with a book list. (sorry, Barak, I've been busy)
"Look at the list of books below: Bold the ones you’ve read. Mark in blue the ones you want to read. Cross out the ones that you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole (or use red coloring). Finally, italicize the ones you've never heard of."
I'll add - comments in purple. A good number of these were things I read in school, so I don't know as they count, as it wasn't by choice. Also, surprisingly, a number have been made into movies. And this is, may I say, clearly a WOMAN'S book list. So don't feel bad if you men are scratching your heads and wondering why you are so unlettered. I suppose now I should look up some of the ones I've never heard of to see if they're worth reading.
[My goodness, I read too much.]
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) A pedant's "Foucault's Pendulum"
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Still an excellent book. My memories of it are mixed up with the old black and white movie version.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) "As G-d is mah witness, Ah shall nevah go hungry again!"
Fun fact - I snickered through most of 2002 everytime the Shrub talked about "the War on Tara." (snicker, snort)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Not sure why these are in this order in the list, but it's telling - Two Towers was, by far, the dullest of the three. I'm one of those sad souls who (despite my admiration for Tolkein) thinks there ought to be an abridged version. Oh wait, that's why we have the movies.
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) A WONDERFUL book, which I'm sure my son will have no interest in reading someday, despite carefully preserving all my childhood books for future offspring. Sigh. Remember when they got shickered on elderberry wine?
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) WOW! I had no idea these were books, I thought they were only a series of cult films. Ok, yes, I should read these.
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) (middling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) (silly, silly silly - someone gave this to me as a gift years ago)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) (wonderful)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Read it, only vaguely remember it, but something about a skinny little kid... I think I've read almost everything Irving ever wrote.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) A marvelous epic - I first read this when indulging my penchant for the macabre as a sullen teenager. The vision of an apocalypse (from the view of the survivors, of course) somehow seems very plausible to a teen.
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) Still one of my favorites.
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) What a bunch of pathetic sad sacks. Honestly, if your wife goes mad, don't hide her in the attic - take her out to parades, or set up a webcam in her room and let her bring in some money. Sheesh.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) meh - barely got through it. Teenage MALE angst was just not that appealing as a teenage girl.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) These are still my models of womanhood. I'm afraid I'm much more like Joe than Meg, try as I might.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Good but, again, macabre. Now a mother, I cannot BEAR the thought of books/stories etc., like this.
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Honestly, what is it about surly, handsome fellows that gets us? Moody brutes always end up being so much bother.
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) A wonderful series, in all. I remember being absolutely downhearted at age 12 or 13 that I was now too old to go to Narnia.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) blech. More moody male angst.
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Quite good.
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Good, but never made it to my list of books to reread every few years.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) The classic. Required reading.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) Naughty but temptingly plausible...
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) My first introduction to the world of South Africa. Looking back, this seems to have a hero much like those in Mark Helprin's books, though younger.
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) VERY naughty, and absolutely tempting... sigh. Too bad we have lost the women's oral tradition...
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) I know I read this at one point, but boy, I don't remember it at all.
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Hmm, oh yeah, I read this for the decriptions of prehistoric FAUNA. Really. (Reminiscent of the whaling chapters of Moby Dick - very skimmable)
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 Umm, interesting that there's no author listed here... ;-}
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) ok, kind of cheating here, because I only read parts of it. Boy, Tolstoy could have written Harry Potter twice as long and unreadable - a gift for turning gold into lead. Maybe if I knew Russian... I think they're all just masochists, who like to read painful long awful things because it justifies their worldview (that life is long and painful and slow and there is no hope of reprieve, so just drink your vodka and keep going).
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) Read a few pages, got sucked into another project and never finished it. The Bean Trees, now, that was a great novel.
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) EXCELLENT. Ender was my favorite little space prodigy until I met Miles Vorkosigan.
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) The green light. Nuff said.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) sssssssssss
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) Creepy. Frighteningly more and more plausible, as I watch looming environmental catastrophe and freaky religious right-wing nut jobs approach.
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Why is it that teachers always ask the LEAST provocative, least interesting questions about the best books? I would love to see someone deal intelligently with this book in a way that actually addresses the disconnect from reality among American teenagers that can produce things like school shootings. No, dunderhead, you are *not* special in any way. And that's OK.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) Again, only parts. Pass the vodka, PLEASE.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) A most remarkable book, to which I return every few years.
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) heh heh. An IOU does not a lifesaving device make. Valuable life lesson.
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) oh, I loved this book as a child, and was absolutely stunned when picking it up in my mid-twenties, and recognizing the political polemics about colonialism and its effect on the British soul contained therein.
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay) (Guilty pleasure - GGK has a great trashy series, and, yes, I've read them all. In the space of about a month, last summer)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving) Again, John Irving. What more needs to be said?
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) "Some pig"
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) A very good book for children of a certain age (and adults) who need to be reminded that not everything is a fairy tale; some monsters (and corruption) are real.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) I should read this at some point, I suppose.
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) This book has been the source of the most persistent and irritating conceptions in the minds of my students (and the American popular imagination) about the "nature" of human beings, culture and the civilized/primitive divide. I do not think any teacher should be allowed to assign it without also assigning Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Geertz.
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 think that I have delved bits of this at times, but I cannot remember a single portion. I should try again once I have a nice jigger or two of whisky under my belt.
Bonus: The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
"Look at the list of books below: Bold the ones you’ve read. Mark in blue the ones you want to read. Cross out the ones that you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole (or use red coloring). Finally, italicize the ones you've never heard of."
I'll add - comments in purple. A good number of these were things I read in school, so I don't know as they count, as it wasn't by choice. Also, surprisingly, a number have been made into movies. And this is, may I say, clearly a WOMAN'S book list. So don't feel bad if you men are scratching your heads and wondering why you are so unlettered. I suppose now I should look up some of the ones I've never heard of to see if they're worth reading.
[My goodness, I read too much.]
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) A pedant's "Foucault's Pendulum"
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Still an excellent book. My memories of it are mixed up with the old black and white movie version.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) "As G-d is mah witness, Ah shall nevah go hungry again!"
Fun fact - I snickered through most of 2002 everytime the Shrub talked about "the War on Tara." (snicker, snort)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Not sure why these are in this order in the list, but it's telling - Two Towers was, by far, the dullest of the three. I'm one of those sad souls who (despite my admiration for Tolkein) thinks there ought to be an abridged version. Oh wait, that's why we have the movies.
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) A WONDERFUL book, which I'm sure my son will have no interest in reading someday, despite carefully preserving all my childhood books for future offspring. Sigh. Remember when they got shickered on elderberry wine?
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) WOW! I had no idea these were books, I thought they were only a series of cult films. Ok, yes, I should read these.
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) (middling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) (silly, silly silly - someone gave this to me as a gift years ago)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) (wonderful)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Read it, only vaguely remember it, but something about a skinny little kid... I think I've read almost everything Irving ever wrote.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) A marvelous epic - I first read this when indulging my penchant for the macabre as a sullen teenager. The vision of an apocalypse (from the view of the survivors, of course) somehow seems very plausible to a teen.
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) Still one of my favorites.
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) What a bunch of pathetic sad sacks. Honestly, if your wife goes mad, don't hide her in the attic - take her out to parades, or set up a webcam in her room and let her bring in some money. Sheesh.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) meh - barely got through it. Teenage MALE angst was just not that appealing as a teenage girl.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) These are still my models of womanhood. I'm afraid I'm much more like Joe than Meg, try as I might.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Good but, again, macabre. Now a mother, I cannot BEAR the thought of books/stories etc., like this.
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Honestly, what is it about surly, handsome fellows that gets us? Moody brutes always end up being so much bother.
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) A wonderful series, in all. I remember being absolutely downhearted at age 12 or 13 that I was now too old to go to Narnia.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) blech. More moody male angst.
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Quite good.
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Good, but never made it to my list of books to reread every few years.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell) The classic. Required reading.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) Naughty but temptingly plausible...
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) My first introduction to the world of South Africa. Looking back, this seems to have a hero much like those in Mark Helprin's books, though younger.
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) VERY naughty, and absolutely tempting... sigh. Too bad we have lost the women's oral tradition...
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) I know I read this at one point, but boy, I don't remember it at all.
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Hmm, oh yeah, I read this for the decriptions of prehistoric FAUNA. Really. (Reminiscent of the whaling chapters of Moby Dick - very skimmable)
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 Umm, interesting that there's no author listed here... ;-}
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) ok, kind of cheating here, because I only read parts of it. Boy, Tolstoy could have written Harry Potter twice as long and unreadable - a gift for turning gold into lead. Maybe if I knew Russian... I think they're all just masochists, who like to read painful long awful things because it justifies their worldview (that life is long and painful and slow and there is no hope of reprieve, so just drink your vodka and keep going).
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) Read a few pages, got sucked into another project and never finished it. The Bean Trees, now, that was a great novel.
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) EXCELLENT. Ender was my favorite little space prodigy until I met Miles Vorkosigan.
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) The green light. Nuff said.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) sssssssssss
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) Creepy. Frighteningly more and more plausible, as I watch looming environmental catastrophe and freaky religious right-wing nut jobs approach.
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Why is it that teachers always ask the LEAST provocative, least interesting questions about the best books? I would love to see someone deal intelligently with this book in a way that actually addresses the disconnect from reality among American teenagers that can produce things like school shootings. No, dunderhead, you are *not* special in any way. And that's OK.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) Again, only parts. Pass the vodka, PLEASE.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) A most remarkable book, to which I return every few years.
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) heh heh. An IOU does not a lifesaving device make. Valuable life lesson.
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) oh, I loved this book as a child, and was absolutely stunned when picking it up in my mid-twenties, and recognizing the political polemics about colonialism and its effect on the British soul contained therein.
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay) (Guilty pleasure - GGK has a great trashy series, and, yes, I've read them all. In the space of about a month, last summer)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving) Again, John Irving. What more needs to be said?
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) "Some pig"
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) A very good book for children of a certain age (and adults) who need to be reminded that not everything is a fairy tale; some monsters (and corruption) are real.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) I should read this at some point, I suppose.
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) This book has been the source of the most persistent and irritating conceptions in the minds of my students (and the American popular imagination) about the "nature" of human beings, culture and the civilized/primitive divide. I do not think any teacher should be allowed to assign it without also assigning Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Geertz.
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 think that I have delved bits of this at times, but I cannot remember a single portion. I should try again once I have a nice jigger or two of whisky under my belt.
Bonus: The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
posted by Tzipporah at 1:24 PM
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1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
Ten foot pole.
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Intensely skimmed in my teens.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Intensely skimmed in my teens.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
My mother thought it was great, I crapped out in the middle of the Two Towers and have avoided it ever since.
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Intensely skimmed in my teens.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
What?
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
Not this one, but others.
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
Ten foot pole.
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Intensely skimmed in my teens.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Ten foot pole.
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
17. Fall on Your Knees
What?
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
What?
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Tried, Failed. Garbage
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Good stuff.
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Read it attentively. But judging by what everyone else remember's, I may have been zoning.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Both my brother and I read this before we were ten.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
What?
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
What?
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Read all his stuff. Long dark teatime of the soul is hysterical. Savage Kitten can't stand him.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Heathcliff! After seeing the Monty Python semofore version I had to read it.
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Read all of these, several times. And I still remember elements visually.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Myeh. Whatever. It's Steinbeck.
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
What?
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
Read it intensely. Saw both teevee movie versions. Would not recommend it. But if it's playing, I'll watch. He got the idea of the giant worm from one of my mother's tales. And she got it from one of her mentor's. Who got it from Anglo-Saxon myths.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
What?
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Ayn Rand!?!?!?!??!?!
34. 1984 (Orwell) The classic.
Read it. Before I knew it was required reading. Burmese days is better. And keep the Aspidistra flying.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Read, misremember.
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
What?
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
What?
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
What?
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
What?
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
What?
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
Garbage.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Skimmed it at the bookstore.
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
Huh?
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
What?
45. The Bible Umm, interesting that there's no author listed here... ;-}
And it has a lousy plot! But some very fine Dallas-like episodes. Can't wait till they write a sequel.
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
There was aperiod that I read certain classics just to say that I had done so. This is one of them. The Brothers bloody buggery boring Karamozov is another.
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Comic strip version. She read it for real.
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
No.
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Myeh. Whatever. It's Steinbeck.
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
Sounds interesting.
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
No.
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
My brother read it, memorized it word for word, and would recite it - in consequence, I never read it. Dickens is for people who relish the use of language - which at that time, I did not.
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
No.
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
Tried reading it. My brother intervened.
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Forgettable in the extreme. Damn drunkard.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
What?
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
She read it. Several times. I've heard about - several times.
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
Turgid garbage. Spew.
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
No.
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
No.
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
No.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
Ayn Rand!?!?!?!??!?!
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
We are Russians. We are serious. We have no fun.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
Bah!
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
What?
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Half-way through.
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
No!
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Read several times.
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
Yes.
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Twice.
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
Oh hell no.
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
Myeh.
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
Several times. It's garbage. This is what you read when you have the flu.
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
Once is enough. Same goes for the movie, double.
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
I was charmed.
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Nope.
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
This is Savage Kitten's FAVOURITE BOOK IN THE WORLD. Which I dare not forget.
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
Read ALL of John Irving.
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
No.
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) "Some pig"
A few times. It's nice.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
Huh?
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
Well, sort of okay.
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
Manderley is burning! And good riddance too.
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
No.
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
No.
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
My mother loathed it. Oddly, so did I.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Myeh.
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
No.
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
No.
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
No.
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
No.
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Read it after seeing the movie. A jolly good read.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
Not really a jolly good read. Chinoiserie.
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
I think I did. Not sure.
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
No!
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
Yes.
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
No.
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
No.
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
No. Oh hell no. What a load of bollocks.
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
Read the whole thing when I was at Berkeley. Partly out of sheer pretentiousness. Partly out of boredom. Molly Bloom is BIG with seed. Read it non-linearly.
Tzipp,
WOW! I am IMPRESSED!!
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