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Monday, March 05, 2007

Book Meme

Thanks, Paperback Writer, for the meme. * Look at the list of books below. * Type "READ" beside the ones you've read. * Type "WANT TO" beside the ones you'd like to read. * Leave blank the ones that you aren't interested in. * Type "AGAIN AND AGAIN" beside the ones you could read again and again. * "Tried" for those books that you've tried to read...again and again. (This one Rob put in!) * "??" For those books you haven't heard of (This one, PW put in!) * Type "Maybe" for the ones you might read, but wouldn't miss if you didn't (I added this one) 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) 2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Read 3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Again and Again 4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Tried 5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Read 6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) Read 7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) Read 8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) Read 9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) ?? 10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) ?? 11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) Again and again 12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) 13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) Again and again 14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Maybe - updated Read 15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) Want to 16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling) Again and again 17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald) ?? 18. The Stand (Stephen King) Again and again (as if there were time) 19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling) Again and again 20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Read 21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) Read 22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Want to 23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Read 24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Maybe 25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) Maybe 26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Again and Again 27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Read 28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Read 29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) Not after Grapes of Wrath!! 30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom) 31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Maybe 32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) Read 33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) Tried to 34. 1984 (Orwell) Read 35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) Maybe 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) Read 42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) ?? 43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) Read 44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) 45. Bible Again and Again 46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Maybe 47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Want to 48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) Tried 49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Read 50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)?? 51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)?? 52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) Read 53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) Want to 54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Read 55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Again and again 56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)?? 57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) Again and again 58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) Maybe 59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) Want to 60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)?? 61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) 62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) Tried 63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) 64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) 65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)?? 66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)Maybe 67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) Read 68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) 69. Les Miserables (Hugo) 70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Read 71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) Read 72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez) Maybe (because of Serendipity) 73. Shogun (James Clavell) 74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) 75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Want to 76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)?? 77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) Maybe 78. The World According To Garp (John Irving) Want to 79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) ?? 80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Again and again 81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)?? 82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) Read 83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) ?? 84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind) Want to 85. Emma (Jane Austen) Read 86. Watership Down(Richard Adams) Maybe 87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Want to 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) Read 93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck) Read 94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) 95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) 96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) Again and Again (and again) 97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) Maybe 98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford) 99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)?? 100. Ulysses (James Joyce) Tried to

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3 Comments:

  • At 8:14 AM, Blogger Liz said…

    I think you would like A Prayer for Owen Meany,and the Secret Life of Bees. And Dune.

     
  • At 9:12 AM, Blogger Paperback Writer said…

    I think I have to agree with EDW about A Prayer for Owen Meany. Lovely book.

     
  • At 11:02 AM, Blogger old man neill said…

    A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my favorite books. Kite Runner was on the list too...I just read it about a month ago...amazing book.

     

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