Recommended Reading
A stolen list from a fellow blogger. Thought that this process might inspire me to start reading more again... Instead, it has my mind reeling with titles of other books I want to read. Mmm... Books!Books with an asterisk are ones I've read. Books with two are ones I'm still intending to read. Others are either unknown or uninteresting to me :)
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 (J.R.R. Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (J.R.R. 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 (J.K. Rowling)*
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)*
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)*
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)**
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)*
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)*
21. The Hobbit (J.R.R. 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 (George 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**
46. Anna Karenina (Leo 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 (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)**
54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)*
55. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)*
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Lawrence)*
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. 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 (Tolsoy)
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 Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)*
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)**
69. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)*
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)**
71. Bridget Jones’ 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 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 (John 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)
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posted by Lindsay @ 8:10 AM
6 Comments:
Have you read the whole Outlander series by Diana Gabladon? I just bought the last one about 2 months ago and I'm going to reread the series. It's one of my favorites! There are so many books on that list that I need to read and I have not nearly enough time in my life.
Funny you should ask...
Two years ago when I had my jaw broken, some of my 'media buddies' in NYC put together a care package for me - pyjamas, Bath & Body Works goodies, and a whole pile of books. The books were (you guessed it) the complete Outlander series.
Now, I don't like really long books. And I don't like historical anything. And so - while I appreciate the writing, etc. - the series is NOT my cup of tea. But I was forced to read every single book, because I knew they'd ask if I read them. Not only that, but when the last book came out, I had to buy it and read it too, because I knew they'd ask... And I didn't want to lie. They ended up being okay, just not my thing at all.
And my plan worked magnificently. When they called and asked eagerly, 'Did you like them?' - I could answer with total honesty: 'Like them? I read them cover to cover, and then went out and bought the last one!'
:)
"The Kiterunner" should be added to your someday list, it's a good read. Also definitely recommend "The Time Traveller's Wife"...SUCH a good book!
Hmmm, Nancy Drew seems to be absent from that list ;)
Thanks for the recommendation, Crystal! I will update my list accordingly.
And Geoff, if they added Nancy Drew books to the list, they would take up all the spots - so it was really just a matter of efficiency. OBVIOUSLY, they are the best books ever. You're just mad because you fear they will one day take over the shelf space currently dedicated to your collection of transforming little friends... Mwaaaahaha...
(that was an evil laugh, in case it wasn't clear)
:)
PS - Crystal... A lover of literature AND a Daily Show fan? I'm impressed :)
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