I’ve seen this one floating around, and every time I do, I think: Hmmm… I wonder how I would fare. So, here goes:
Books I’ve read
Books I want to or believe I should readBooks I wouldn’t touch (again, in some instances) with a ten foot pole
Books on my bookshelves
Books on my TBR list
Books I’ve never heard of
Books I’ve only seen in movie or TV form
**Books I count among my favorites**
Books I’ve heard of, but haven’t or won’t read
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
**2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)**
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) [but it’s been forever; time for a reread]
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) [it’s for the Read Outside the Box thing for our library]
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) [I don’t do horror]
**19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)**
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) [I think I started it once, but I’m not sure I finished it. At any rate, I don’t remember it.]
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) [train wreck]
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) [I don’t read Steinbeck, sorry. I had enough of him in high school.]30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) [Read the other one. Hated it.]
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. The Bible [most of it, anyway]
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) [see previous Steinbeck comment]
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) [though it’s been too long; time for another reread]
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) [though I don’t particularly like 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) [used to own it, loaned it to a friend. It never came back]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 Traveling 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) [read it in high school, not especially willingly]
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) [have tried, and failed, to read this one]
**93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)**94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) [read the Mermaid Chair; have no desire to read this one]
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 read part of this in college; that was enough for me.]
The Book Nut 
Wow! fun. I’ll give it a whirl when I’ve got a free hour 🙂
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Okay, one more comment. You should try the Secret Life of Bees. I didn’t read Mermaid’s Chair because it sounded so NOT like the Secret Life of Bees. Try it.
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Ahhh, we have several in common that we wouldn’t touch again with a ten-foot pole.*coughmitchalbomcough*
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The Power of One – did you never see the movie it was based on?The Celestine Prophecy is very preachy.Ask Rebecca about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I think she liked it, but I don’t remember.The Alchemist = also very preachy (see Celestine Prophecy).
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Who wrote this list anyway? I find it very eclectic.
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Nope, Wayne, never saw the movie of Power of One. Didn’t even know it was the movie. BTW, I cheated — I’ve never seen Shogun; I mixed it up with something else… I also have no idea who originated this list. I’ve seen it on several blogs (both bookish ones and other ones)now. One blogger ranted that it wasn’t a very ethnically diverse list. Oh, Andi — the really sad thing about Mitch Albom is that I used to read his brilliant sports column in the Detroit Free Press. Talk about not sticking to what you know.
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Yeah, I think it was me that said the list wasn’t terribly ethnically or racially diverse. But in any case, these book list memes are always sort of odd, a mix of bestsellers, classics, old favorites, etc. I want to put in a word for <>Jane Eyre<>. I do so love that book!And oh! I loved the multi-color format.
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You gotta read the Power of One and the two Wally Lambs. I promise you will not regret it!
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Um, could I ask a favor? Please don’t excuse Steinbeck from your life entirely. I had the same reaction. After I read The Grapes of Wrath in high school, I thought that was enough for me. My girlfriend and I read East of Eden together after I graduated from college. This is one of the most well themed, beautifully written books I have ever read. She and I talked about it for hours after each chapter. It inspired some of the best conversations I’ve had about humanity.
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