Thursday, November 3, 2011

#184 Make a list of 100 books I want to read and read them all!

So I just joined the website www.goodreads.com which made it very easy for me to compile a list of 100 books I want to read. I actually am going to have 110 books on this list and it's because a couple of them are also on my "All TIME 100 novels" list and I just don't think it's fair to myself to have the same book count for two different items on my bucket list. I will link this list on the top of my blog so if a reader ever wants to go back and read what books I have listed they will have easy access to that.


1.The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern (Review)
2.     Bright Lights, Big Ass- Jen Lancaster
3.     Still Alice- Lisa Genova (Review)
4.     1984- George Orwell
5.     The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger (Review)
6.     One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7.     Chronicles of Narnia (series)- C.S. Lewis
8.     Catch-22- Joseph Heller
9.     Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
10. In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
11. Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen
12. The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
13. The Time Traveler’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
14. The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
15. The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
16. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
17. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
18. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
20. A Dog’s Purpose- Bruce W. Cameron
21. The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Zafon
22. Sarah’s Key- Tatiana de Rosnay
23. Wicked- Gregory Maguire (Review)
24. Midwives- Chris Bohjalian
25. Freakonomonics- Steven D. Levitt
26. Extremely Loud and Incredisbly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
28. The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom
29. A Walk to Remember- Nicholas Sparks
30. Jumanji- Chris Van Allsburg
31. Life of Pi- Yann Martel
32. The Host- Stephanie Meyer
33. The Thirteenth Tale- Dianne Setterfield
34. Everything Is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer
35. The Shack- William P. Young
36. Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
37. My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult
38. Catching fire- Suzanne Collins
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hossenini
40. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Seth Grahame-Smith
41. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter- Kim Edwards
42. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon
43. The Pillars of Earth- Ken Follet
44. Speak- Laurie Halse Anderson
45. The Tao of Wu- The RZA
46. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephan Chbosky
47. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
48. Fight Club- Chuck Palaniuk
49. Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut
50. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt- Beth Hoffman
51. Possession- A.S. Byatt
52. The Best of Me- Nicholas Sparks
53. Can You Keep a Secret?- Sophie Kinsella
54. Damned- Chuck Palaniuk
55. Zone One- Colson Whitehead
56. The Marriage Plot- Jeffrey Eugenides
57. The Stranger’s Child- Alan Hollinghurst
58. The Pale King- David Foster Wallace
59. The Leftovers- Tom Perrotta
60. Steve Jobs- Walter Isaacson
61. Between Shades of Grey- Ruta Sepetys
62. State of Wonder- Ann Patchett
63. Sleeping with Mortals- Cathrine Goldstein
64. The Cat’s Table- Michael Ondaatje
65. The Dovekeepers- Alice Hoffman
66. Touch- Alexi Zentner
67. Hot Pink- Adam Levin
68. Tell-All- Chuck Palahniuk
69. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
70. The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
71. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
72. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer- Patrick Suskind
73. Go Ask Alice- Beatrice Sparks
74. Dracula- Bram Stocker
75. Roots- Alex Haley
76. The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
78. Watchmen- Alan Moore
79. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
80. Sophie’s Choise- William Styron
81. Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer
82. Native Son- Richard Wright
83. A Little Princess- Frances Hodgson Burnett
84. Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo
85. The Godfather- Mario Puzo
86. V for Vendetta- Alan Moore
87. The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
88. A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry
89. A Child Called “It”- Dave Pelzer
90. The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
91. The Plague- Albert Camus
92.  The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
93. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- John Boyce
94. While Mortals Sleep- Kurt Vonnegut
95. Diary- Chuck Palahniuk
96. A Visit from the Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan
97. Freedom- Jonathan Franzen
98. The Surrendered- Chang-rae Lee
99. Man in the Woods
100.                The Lonely Polygamists- Brady Udall
101.                To the End of the Land- David Grossman
102.                Vestments- John Reimringer
103.                Room- Emma Donoghue
104.                Super Sad True Love Story- Gary Shteyngart
105.                Faithful  Place- Tana French
106.                Major Pettigrews’s Land Stand- Helen Simonson
107.                Ship Breaker- Paolo Bacigalupi
108.                Anthropology of an American Girl- Hilary Thayer Hamann
109.                Winning Mr.Wrong- Marie Higgins
110.                It Rains in Febuary- Leila Summers

2 comments:

  1. I like that list. Recently, I bought a sci-fi novel but haven't started it yet. From what I understand, there's a blend of history (of a far-off planet) and sci-fi. That's interesting to me.

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  2. I've been stuck on Wicked for weeks!

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