Though I really love to read, I hardly get enough time for it, which goes double for writing. This post on Confessions of a sophisticated writer served as a reminder that it has been a while since I did any serious reading. The list of 100 books is an interesting one and though I have read only a few, I must have seen a number of movies based on a large number of the rest.
Here is my marking of the 100 books mentioned. I have made an addition of underlining those that I remember having seen picturized. As you can see, my reading record is quite pathetic and I am far behind most people in this area:
*Look at the list of books below.
*Bold the ones you’ve read.
*Italicize the ones you want to read.
*leave same the ones that you aren’t interested in.
*Underline those that you have seen a movie adaption of
*If you are reading this, tag you’re reading it.
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- Gone 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)
- The 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)
- The 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)
- Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
- Atlas 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)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
- 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 (Audrey Niffenegger)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The 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)
Time to grab some books and force some time out for them.
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