Stolen from Shelli and Bri. And added to, because like Shelli, I had a number of books on my list that I prefer to those on the original meme. Incidentally, I recommend all of the books on my list (numbers 101-125).
Instructions:
in bold=have read the book.
in italics=want to read the book
+ =own the book
*=unfamiliar with the book
[]=notes from me
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 (Tolkien)
6. + The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. + The Lord of the Rings: (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 (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)
19. + Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. + Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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. What was 27?? (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 (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 [partly bold to indicate partial reading]
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)
50. + She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. + The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (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)
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) [In Spanish][In high school]
67. + The Sisterhood of the Travelling 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 (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. + The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. What book? Doesn’t matter, I’ve probably read it. (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)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (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 (Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) [familiar with the author]
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) [enjoyed the movie]
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)
Bonus Books, because while that list was interesting, I have more that I think are interesting. And in no more order than the list above.
101. + Trickster’s Choice/Trickester’s Queen (Tamora Pierce)
102. + Geeks (Jon Katz)
103. + The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
104. + Joy of Cooking (any edition)
105. + Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
106. + Rage for Justice (John Jacobs)
107. + The Fairy Godmother (Mercedes Lackey)
108. + Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
109. + Artemis Fowl (Eion Colfer)
110. + The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)
111. + The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud)
112. + Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers)
113. + He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Elizabeth Peters) [or any other Amelia Peabody mystery]
114. + A Taste for Death (P.D. James) [or any other Adam Dalgliesh mystery]
115. + Bloodchild and Other Stories (Octavia Butler)
116. + Motion of Light in Water (Samuel R. Delany)
117. + Code (Larry Lessig)
118. + Gregor the Overlander (Suzanne Collins)
119. + Operating Instructions (Anne Lamott)
120. + The Seeing Stone (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
121. + The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
122. + Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
123. + Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress (Susan Jane Gilman)
124. + Bun in the Oven (Kaz Cooke) (best pregnancy book EVER; 100% free of preaching)
125. + Chronicles of the Chrestomanci, Volume 1 (Diana Wynne Jones)
How about The Westing Game?
Jill, The Westing Game is among the best kid lit books EVER. Good call.
Liza, I saw Operating Instructions on your list (terrific book). If anyone is interested in more Anne Lamott, I highly recommend Traveling Mercies and Plan B — two books of essays on her personal journey of faith, which has been bumpy. She’s incredibly insightful. She’s got a new one out too, and I’m sure it’s great but I haven’t read it so won’t vouch for it… yet.
Jill and Andrea, you are so right. I can’t believe I forgot The Westing Game.
So I actually added 5 more books to the list.
Incidentally, Andrea, Anne Lamott is coming to speak at our church next month! Her other books sound terrific, and I think we need to include those on our reading list.
WOW – can I come visit? It would be thrilling to hear her speak!
Of course you can come visit!
i loved “the westing game” when i was a kid! that and “a wrinkle in time” were my very very favorites.
p.s. is this supposed to be a list of someone’s favorite books? or just a random list of books?
i hesitate to do the meme myself, since i fear there will be an embarrassing lack of bold type, but maybe i should. there are some really good books on the list.
I have no idea where the list originated. In my world, the first 100 are “totally random.” But it does include an interesting mix of The Canon and popular literature. I just re-read The Little Princess because I was reminded of it by the list.
My additional 25 are somewhat random, but all books that I like. I limited myself to books not on the first list and 1-per-author.
Looks like it originated on LiveJournal. And now I’ve wasted a lot of time. How do you find time for all this? Anyway, it’s going on my blog as soon as I find the time.
Sandra
I’m a junkie.
Sandra, do you realize that you’re responsible directly for 2 of my favorite books on my 25 additional books list, and indirectly another 2 on the list? (Golden Compass and Gaudy Night directly, with Gaudy Night leading to the Elizabeth Peters and P.D. James books.)
Thank you!