So, I really don't make New Year's resolutions, but one thing I am going to try for is to blog more. We'll see if I have more of a history of 2009 at the end of the year than I did with 2008.
Here's a great thing I stole from my friend,
Mary.
1) Look at the list and italicize those you have already read.
2) Bold those you intend to read.
3) Place ** after the books you LOVE.
4) Post your list so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them.
(Mary searched for books that are available on LibriVox and have linked them. There are a few Wikipedia links, too0
1.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
librivox link2.
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
librivox link4.
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling **
5.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee**
6. The Bible (Can't really say I've read the whole thing.)
7.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
librivox link8.
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11.
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
LibriVox12.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14.
Complete Works of Shakespeare librivox links15.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16.
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17.
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18.
Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19.
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20.
Middlemarch** - George Eliot librivox link21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22.
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald** (In fact, favorite book of all time.)
23.
Bleak House** - Charles Dickens
librivox link24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
librivox links25.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26.
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
libriVox28.
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29.
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
libriVox30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
librivox link32.
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
LibriVox33.
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34.
Emma - Jane Austen
librivox link35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (Really?)
39.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40.
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
42.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Again, really?)
43.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45.
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46.
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
librivox link47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48.
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50.
Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54.
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
LibriVox55.
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57.
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60.
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61.
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62.
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64.
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65.
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
librivox link66.
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67.
Jude the Obscure** - Thomas Hardy
68.
Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding (One more time, really?)
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70.
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
LibriVox71.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
librivox link72.
Dracula - Bram Stoker
LibriVox73.
The Secret Garden** - Frances Hodgson Burnett (thanks to
librivox & kayray)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75.
Ulysses - James Joyce
LibriVox76.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78.
Germinal - Emile Zola79.
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80.
Possession** - AS Byatt
81.
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
LibriVox82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84.
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
librivox link86.
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry87.
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
LibriVox90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91.
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92.
The Little Prince** - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93.
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks94.
Watership Down - Richard Adams
95.
A Confederacy of Dunces** - John Kennedy Toole
96.
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute97.
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
LibriVox98.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So, I've read a lot, but I see a few I should add to my list. Greg got me an awesome
thing for Christmas, and with it came 100 free "classics" (not sure I agree with every title being called a classic, but they're free so I won't split hairs). I'll just have to decide where to start. Happy reading in 2009!