100 Books

My friend Heidi posted a list of books that her sister posted on her blog that her friend Megan originally posted on her blog. I believe it was a list of books that the creator of the list was curious if most people had read. If you make your own list or use the list below, like I did, let me know and I'll link to you.

Instructions:
In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, put the pound sign (#) in front of the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

So I thought, why not? Here are my results.

+ 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 (Scott Fitzgerald) (
* 56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
+ 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 (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 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)

Whew. Joyce. What a way to end the list!