The list:
1 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling (nope. To be honest, I have no interest in Mr. Potter, so I am not likely to pick it up. However, if it is your cup of tea, go ahead and enjoy. Just don't try to "convert" me. It won't work, and I will think you are just one of those obsessive people to avoid. My daughter reads them and seems to like them. We will be looking for a boxed set for her next time we need a gift. Yes, she already asked for it.)
2 Twilight - Stephenie Meyer (Not yet. I am curious enough I just may pick it up. However, I am not thrilled with the recent trend of vampire stories being chick lit with darkness lite).
3 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4 The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
5 My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
6 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I mentioned in another list where this was featured that I already know the story, so I have no incentive to pick it up. Unlike a lot of people I know, I was never forced to read this in school either).
7 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
8 Breath - Tim Winton
9 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10 Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
11 The Power Of One - Bryce Courtenay
12 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
13 Magician - Raymond E. Feist
14 The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
15 Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
16 Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
17 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
18 Cross - James Patterson
19 Persuasion - Jane Austen
20 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
23 Marley and Me - John Grogan
24 Antony and Cleopatra - Colleen McCullough
25 April Fools Day - Bryce Courtney
26 North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
27 In My Skin - Kate Holden
28 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
29 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
30 The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
31 Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
32 Atonement - Ian McEwan
33 Shantaram Gregory - David Roberts
34 Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
35 The Pact - Jodi Picoult
36 Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
37 Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
38 Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
39 A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
40 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
41 Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
42 Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
43 Life Of Pi - Yann Martel
44 Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
45 People Of The Book - Geraldine Brooks
46 Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly
47 Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
48 Brother Odd - Dean Koontz
49 Tully - Paullina Simons
50 Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
51 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger (I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Salinger owes me the time I wasted on this piece of overrated tripe.)
52 Eragon - Christopher Paolini (My daughter has read this series as well. She is making me curious enough to consider picking it up. And it is now another one she wants a boxed set for.)
53 Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
54 It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
55 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
56 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
57 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (I've also read The Fifth Mountain, and Veronika Decides to Die. All very good. And I prefer to read Coehlo in Spanish.)
58 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (also read Animal Farm.)
59 A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
60 The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
61 The Notebook -Nicholas Sparks
62 Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
63 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
64 The Host - Stephenie Meyer
65 Dirt Music - Tim Winton
66 Eldest - Christopher Paolini
67 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (another piece of overrated sappy tripe. And I read it in Spanish. Why Ruiz Zafon has suddenly become so popular is beyond me.)
68 It - Stephen King (I've read other Stephen King novels, just never this. I have to fix that gap sometime soon.)
69 World Without End - Ken Follett
70 Emma - Jane Austen
71 Temple - Matthew Reilly
72 Little Women - Alcott Louisa May
73 Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
74 Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
75 American Gods - Neil Gaiman (Gaiman is one of my favorite authors.)
76 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (when people say "literature," they mean quality writers like this guy. Garcia Marquez should be required reading. He is that good.)
77 P.S, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
78 All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell
79 The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (saw the lecture online).
80 Past Secrets - Cathy Kelly
81 The Persimmon Tree - Bryce Courtenay
82 Husband - Dean Koontz
83 Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
84 Wicked - Gregory Maguire
85 Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon
86 Always And Forever - Cathy Kelly
87 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
88 Cents & Sensibility - Maggie Alderson
89 Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
90 The Shifting Fog - Kate Morton
91 We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
92 Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
93 Hour Game - David Baldacci
94 Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
95 The Woods - Harlan Coben
96 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
97 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
98 Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
99 Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
100 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Not even close. Just seven, and given the content, not likely to improve. Oh well, there is always the "Muy Macho Reading List." So, how about you, how many have you read?
1 comment:
I agree entirely about Salinger! And the same goes for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Boring! hmmm... and I can't abide Hemingway, either. Inflicted is definitely the right word.
Mary Piero Carey
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