- Bold means I've read it.
- Italics means I want to read it.
- An X means I don't want to read, nor will you get me near it.
- A + means I have it on my shelf.
- An * means I haven't heard of it.
- Regular text with nothing added means that I have heard of it, have not read it, and have not formed an opinion as to if I want to read it.
- +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- XGone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
- +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
- +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
- +The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
- Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
- *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
- *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
- +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
- +Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
- +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
- *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- +Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
- *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
- XThe Stand (Stephen King)
- +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- +The Hobbit (Tolkien)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
- The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- XThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- XTuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
- +Dune (Frank Herbert)
- +The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
- XAtlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
- 1984 (Orwell)
- +The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
- *I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
- The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
- *The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
- *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
- XThe Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
- + and X Bible
- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
- +The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- +Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- *She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
- +The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
- Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
- Great Expectations (Dickens)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
- +Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
- The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- XThe Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
- War and Peace (Tolstoy)
- +Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
- *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- Les Miserables (Hugo)
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
- *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
- Shogun (James Clavell)
- The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- The World According To Garp (John Irving)
- *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
- Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
- *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
- Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
- +Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
- +Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
- +Emma (Jane Austen)
- +Watership Down (Richard Adams)
- +Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
- *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
- Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
- *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
- Lord of the Flies (Golding)
- The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
- The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
- The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
- The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
- White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
- A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
- *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
- Ulysses (James Joyce)
7 comments:
Where did you find this list. I, being a bookaholic, would like to annotate it too.
Assorted comments to follow-
Gone with the Wind -read at 14, no judgment, first book I read with over 1000 pages
A fine Balance- read, good, Canadian author
Memoirs of a Geisha,move it up the list-very good book, read before movie, thank goodness
Tuesdays with Morrie, very pat little book but I read because I read a blog by a young family man with ALS--Brainhell
The Kite Runner--IMHO one of the most important books of the past 20 years, check it out.
The Time Traveller's Wife-- a delightful book, one of my favourites
The English Patient-- a great book, but if you've seen the movie (which was a good movie but not the book) you probably won't like it, another Canadian author
The Summer Tree- Guy Gavriel Kay, another Canadian, writes alternative history, a kind of very well written fantasy- my husband and son love him, we have all his books (8 or so)
The Stone Diaries-excellent Canadian writer, very interesting book
Not wanted on the voyage, Timothy Findley-Canadian, good book.
I've read 62 of the books on the list.
So get well soon, take care of yourself
jmb
I've saw the list on a couple of writing blogs and other personal blogs. No one noted the origin of the list.
Isn't it interesting that many of the books I don't know are by Canadian authors?
And, Gone with the Wind--being a southerner, I had it up to here with the pageantry surrounding Gone with the Wind. Call it general disgust from over exposure as a youth.
I forgot to say that if you do the meme, please leave a comment so we can visit and see what you have read from this list made by whoever.
I did find this meme, HP, out in Googleland and saved it but I can't face all that typing it in just yet. However I found a couple of shorter ones so I might start with one of those.
Regards
jmb
jmb--Copy and paste is your friend with this one. That's what I did.
It works especially well if you copy and paste special into a word processing program.
That way you only have to format the text once, not undo what someone else has done.
Yes, I knew there had to be a better way. I'm still a novice you know and trying to make things more complicated than they are.
Thanks
jmb
Hi,
I followed a link in jmb's comments and found this a couple of days ago. jmb suggested that I post this meme, so I have and linked back to you. The post is here Book Meme
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