Book Meme

Not sure why I'm doing this, except to show everyone how well-read and sophisticated I am, and because it's lunch time and I'm bored. I saw it on Laugh it Up Fuzzball. You're supposed to bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole, put a cross in front of the ones on your bookshelf, and asterisk the ones you’ve never heard of. I didn't bother with the "ones on your bookshelf" part.

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [Had to read it for a book club. It sucks. Richard Langdon has to be the dumbest symbologist of all time. I just watched the movie, which was even worse.]
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Lawrence Olivier will always be Mr. Darcy to me.]
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: Two Towers - Tolkien
8. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
9. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon [I tried, but had to stop because of the persistent desire to claw my eyes out.]
10. A Fine Balance* - Rohinton Mistry
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
12. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving [One of my favorites.]
15. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
17. Fall on Your Knees* - Ann-Marie MacDonald
18. The Stand - Stephen King
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
20. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21. The Hobbit - Tolkien
22. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger [I didn't even like this book when I was 13.]
23. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott [Wasn't Louisa May Alcott's family some kind of commie nudist cult or something?]
24. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
25. Life of Pi* - Yann Martel
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [I'm getting teary just thinking about it.]
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 [All Dune books are on my bookshelf, even Chapterhouse, which is truly horrible. I think it's what finally killed Herbert.]
32. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks [I think I bought this one as research. I was going to write a romance novel and make a million dollars. Note to self: put that on my Next Actions list.]
33. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand [Well, of course. I read it when I was 14 and immediately joined The Objectivist Society. Fortunately Objectivism was just a teenage phase, like heavy black eyeliner.]
34. 1984 - George Orwell
35. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
36. The Pillars of the Earth* - Ken Follett
37. The Power of One* - Bryce Courtenay [This one sounds suspiciously like a self-help book: The Power of One: Ten easy ways to lose weight by eating only one-calorie foods.]
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 [Sex in the Pleistocene!]
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
45. The Bible [Strangely enough, I have several copies. I've tried to read it but I usually fall asleep. I believe my mom is currently reading "The Bible for Dummies." Maybe she'll lend it to me.]
46. Anna Karenina - Leo 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 - Charles Dickens
53. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card [I like the Piggies better.]
54. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [I've been assigned this book about a billion times, but I think I only managed to get through it once.]
55. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
58. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough [I love the Colleen McCullough Rome books.]
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 [Do I need to read this? Or was Tolstoy being paid by the word, like Herman Melville or David Foster Wallace?]
64. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice
65. Fifth Business - Robertson Davis
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
68. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
69. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
70. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery ["El Principito" is on my bookshelf. One of my Spanish teachers gave it to me.]
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
72. Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez
73. Shogun - James Clavell
74. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
75. The Secret Garden - 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
80. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage* - Timothy Findley
82. Of Mice And Men - John 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* - Jeffrey Archer
91. In The Skin Of A Lion - Micahel Ondaatje
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
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 [I'm an English major. Of course I've read it.]