Wonderful and helpful Dekker summary, Warrior! Can you believe it? I still haven't read his Circle books , and will be purchasing them as one set in the next few weeks. They'll be some of my summer reading. This is looooooong overdue.

Lately, I have made a point of getting to bed early, if possible, in order to spend a couple of hours reading in the evening, so have been going through a steady stream of books. Right now I am reading The Book of Negroes (Lawrence Hill), which is an historical fiction, and not for the faint of heart. Taking place during a time of history in which I am most interested (and equally repulsed)—the late 1700s/early 1800s—at the time of horrific slavery/slave trade, from the point of view of a young African girl who was captured, torn from her family. Written from first person, she tells the story of her traumatic life (if it even be called "life"), moving one to tears. There are some horrible descriptions of how owners treat slaves, as well as how they were all abused so brutally on the ship coming over. One caution: some intimate moments are described in a bit too much detail (for my preference). This book is a very powerful and unforgettable read, and ties in nicely with my collection of British abolitionist books.

I stumbled across a used book sale on Saturday morning put on by the Oakville Literary Society, and because it was the final day, everything (hard covers, included) were on for $1! Very good condition too. Unfortunately I was quite limited in my time, otherwise I could have spent the entire day there. It was very well organized, and I think my mouth dropped way open when I rounded the corner and discovered this treasure.

I focused on the biography section, and dearly wish I had more time! So, I purchased 6 books for 6 bucks:

*A Beautiful Mind: Sylvia Nasar. The life story of John Nash, who Russell Crowe brilliantly portrayed in the film of the same title.
*The King's Speech : Mark Logue, the grandson of Lionel Logue. This is for a gift, since I have a copy already—'tis a very interesting read, btw.
*James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet: Graham Lord. I have read the bio of Herriot by his son before, but not by Lord, so am eager for this.
*A Man Called Intrepid: William Stevenson. This was in much better condition than our falling-apart copy.
*Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
*Sam Walton: Made In America. Also an autobio.

I have been sitting trying to remember the last time I posted in here, and I can't! It's too long since I last posted in here, I'm going to have to post more often.

I read Facing The Giants by Eric Wilson last week. I bought it with my birthday from Amazon.com for $4. It's really good. I'm really glad I decided to get, especially since my Mom said no more buying books (at least for now), we had to much weight when we moved. Facing The Giants the novel was very well done. I love Eric Wilson writing style combined with the Kendricks brothers.

I'm currently reading Set-Apart Femininity by Leslie Ludy and The Most Reluctant Convert by David C. Downing. Both are first reads, I received Set-Apart Femininity for my birthday and I pulled The Most Reluctant Convert off the shelf in the livingroom a couple days ago. I'm just a couple chapters into Set-Apart Femininity, but it's very good. Same with The Most Reluctant Convert. I haven't had a whole lot of time to read lately, but hopeful I will soon.

SnowAngel

I'm currently reading the Shining. It had a promising beginning but it seems to be slowing down. I still want to know how it ends though.

I've been discovering some great books recently, namely the Hunger Games Trilogy and Edgar Rice Burroughs amazing Barsoom Series and Caspak trilogy.

I really enjoyed the hunger games books even though I would agree they would appeal more to girls then most guys. They are very easy to read and VERY addictive. I liked the first one best. The second one starts out slowly but the last 2 thirds are really good and it has a great ending. I'm kind of torn about Mockingjay. Its well told and gripping but we find out how [spoiler=]self-centered Katniss is(Yes she does some very heroic and commendable things) and by the end the only hero is left is Peeta. Katniss is no better then Snow by the end of it. And all the "good" characters die(Finnick and Prim) or lose their humanity (Katniss, Haymitch and Gale) by the end of it.
I guess it's to show how destructive war is but I don't think it's necessary to destroy everything good about these people to get that across.

I first found out about the John Carter series when I saw a preview for the film. I found A Princess of mars on a free audiobook site and was immediently hooked. I listened to the five books they had in the Barsoom Series in a matter of days then I went on to the Caspak trilogy and then the Lost Continent. They are all great swashbuckling adventure stories and Burroughs is I think comparable to Tolkien in his worldbuilding. I think he does regurgitate the "Damsel in Distress" plotline a bit much but they are still great stories.

I really enjoyed the hunger games books even though I would agree they would appeal more to girls then most guys. They are very easy to read and VERY addictive. I liked the first one best. The second one starts out slowly but the last 2 thirds are really good and it has a great ending. I'm kind of torn about Mockingjay. Its well told and gripping but we find out how [spoiler=]self-centered Katniss is(Yes she does some very heroic and commendable things) and by the end the only hero is left is Peeta. Katniss is no better then Snow by the end of it. And all the "good" characters die(Finnick and Prim) or lose their humanity (Katniss, Haymitch and Gale) by the end of it.

~Riella

~ Riella

I disagree with you on that one.

~Riella

~ Riella

Especially after

Last Monday when I posted I was reading Set-Apart Femininity and The Most Reluctant Convert. Today, I'm still "reading" both of them, but I have kind of put them on hold for the moment since we went to the library on Friday. Between us older girls, we got The Inheritance and Remembered by Tamera Alexander, Angel Harp and A Dangerous Love by Michael Phillips, Rose Galbraith by Grace Livingston Hill, Speak To Me of Love by Robin Lee Hatcher, and Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow. Oh, and on Thursday I had started A Bridge to Far by Cornelius Ryan. I know I'm crazy.

Currently I'm reading Through My Eyes and Rose Galbraith. I already read The Inheritance, Remembered, and A Dangerous Love. All three of them were really good.

Remembered is the third book in The Fountain Creek Chronicles (of which I own the first 2 books), and I will definite get it when I find it to for a good price. The Inheritance was really good as well, I enjoyed the story and characters a lot. Tamera Alexander is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

I was really excited to see A Dangerous Love at library since I didn't know there was a sequel to Mercy & Eagleflight plus I have really enjoyed everything I have read by Michael Phillips. It was excellent just as good as the first book, maybe even better.

Through My Eyes is very interesting. My younger sister is one that got it. I started watching college football about the time Tim Tebow start playing, although I have always been a Missouri Tigers fan that is where my loyalties lie. I am a fan of Tim Tebow now, although never of the Bronces or the Jets (I dislike both teams a lot), because he is a Christian (number one reason) and a good quarterback. His book is very good.

SnowAngel

Hey Everyone,

I saw this on another site an wanted to post it here...I thought it would be interesting to see some of you guys and your answers. I've found alot of these books are ones that I've bought (mainly because they're classics) and just haven't read yet...others I've never heard of...

(And I know there's no strike out code here, so I'll just write "STRIKE" next to it)

This list was compiled in the U.K. by the BBC. The average adult has read only 6 of the books on the list. This list was compiled in the U.K. by the BBC. The average adult has read only 6 of the books on the list. I’ve read 59. (62)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own blog. (This list in no way represents the top 100 books. It’s missing the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer. For shame.)

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling STRIKE
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman EDIT: STRIKE
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy STRIKE
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (although I had to stop reading that )
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown STRIKE
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold STRIKE
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

So...my score's 22. (Not too shabby, considering the average )
Inquiring minds want to know: What's yours?

Let's see. I've read almost exactly half of LotR (FotR, first half of TT... I plan on finishing this summer). I've read the first three books from the Harry Potter series. And I got about a third of the way through Great Expectations. Same with Watership Down. I plan on finishing all of these in the not so distant future. I've also read the Bible, 1984, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, "The Chronicles of Narnia", The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (they're listed separately ), Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, and A Christmas Carol in their entirety.

So I've started (but not completed) four of them and I've finished nine so far. Thanks for the list. I want to read all of them!

EDIT: I forgot Hamlet! The first classic I ever read. That brings my total of books on the list I've finished up to ten.

Ah, I've seen those lists before. They always mess me up because I'm never sure if I should include those that I'm reading but haven't finished yet. I'll bold the ones I've read, and color the ones I've read part of/most of/am currently reading. Ones I plan to read, I'll italicize -- underline it if I plan to read it really soon. The ones I don't currently plan to read, I'll leave blank.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (although I had to stop reading that )
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

So, I have finished 15 of the list, read parts of 15 on the list, plan to read 29 on the list (one very soon), and don't have any plans to read 41 books on the list.

~Riella

Mmhmm, Shantih, I'm pretty sure most of Sutcliff's are out of print here except the three that were mentioned. Ooh, or maybe not! I just pulled up Amazon and although it's very mixed, it looks like there are copies of some of her works that can be bought new instead of used. I'll definitely have to look into that.

Ooh, fun, AslansChild! (By the way, you can use the strike out feature---it's {s}{/s} but with [] instead of {})

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

*I started this a few years back and really need to finish it...

Really, no one else yet has read Swallows and Amazons? I suppose it is kind of hard to get a hold of, but it's so much fun!

At any rate, I've read 22 of the 100. A little over a fifth, which isn't too shabby, I guess. The bad news is that there are only a few more that I really plan to read. The good news is that there are only a few I'm pretty sure I don't want to read.

I'm currently reading A Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer. I think this was one a few people had read and didn't like, but I can't quite remember. Does anyone else have better memory?

Fun list!! I'll try it out. NOTE: Strike + Bold, read and didn't like (I'm not familiar with all of them, so if there are any other books not marked, read: I'm indifferent towards them.)

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (have read FotR, not the rest. I plan to this summer.)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte I read it, but found the circumstances and morals very distasteful.
4 The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling I never was much of a fantasy fan before Narnia, so I never really was interested. I tried to read the first one and wasn't that interested. I don't freak out and think they're the source of all evil, but I'm not really interested in/comfortable with reading them. My sister used to read them but just eventually wasn't really interested/comfortable with reading them.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee On my summer reading list.
6 The Bible Yes, that's the Book for me! (though, I haven't possibly read it in its entirety, though I've read it through with my family.)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte Tried to read it, couldn't. O.o
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens-- I'd strike it because I've heard it's bad, but I'm currently indifferent towards it.
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (I can appreciate some things about it, I like it less now than I did at the first reading.)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Italicized halfway because I don't want to read /everything/ by him, but I'd like to read some.
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien Totally the book that made me love Middle Earth and made me realize my kindred-spiritedness with hobbits.
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame I really, really enjoyed this book for the most part-such beautiful writing! Save one chapter, though, that I wish was not there. I need to reread the book to determine exactly what I think of it.
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis <3
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown Attempted to read it to see what it was about, found it too ... weird and not up my lane.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery Lovelovelove. (I love solely the first book to that degree, I should add. I like a few of the others, but the first wins my heart. )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen -- maybe, not sure.
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens I've read about half of it.
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Really need to!
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Really want to!
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo