So, quite some time ago while going through my daily feeds, I came across an article in one of the many blogs that I follow (and idolize) regarding “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.” I love reading and I’m always looking for suggestions, although my tastes are generally limited to mystery novels, S&M novels as of late and romantic novels, mostly the ones that take place in like the 1800s because back then women were treated with respect and men actually proved themselves worthy of the women. On this particular list, I was actually quite surprised to find that I have read quite a few of them, however, out of those that I have read, I plan to re-read simply because most of them were forced upon us in high school and I only read them because I had to. I honestly couldn’t tell you what in the world they are about! My tastes have changed the older I’ve gotten and a lot of the books I detested in school now intrigue me and I fully intend to finish this list. Again, it’s a “lifetime” list but I hope to have them all read before I’m 40. This is my pledge for my birthday (today). Yes, I am giving myself a full 10 years which is clearly shorter than a lifetime (I hope) so I’m actually testing myself here. This is an average of 10 books a year. I read relatively fast when I’m interested and I’m usually able to keep up with about three books at once so if I plan to read 10 of these a year, then if I get bored, I can still enjoy some other books while coming back to that particular one I’m working on at the time. Plus, there’s life, hopefully a job, homeschooling mini-me, and possibly another baby in the future that will take away time from reading. I’m also aspiring to get this blog going more and actually giving you guys something to read (see above where I said I “idolize” those blogs). I’m also ahead since I read a few of these books recently! So, yay!!! The list of books is below along with the ones I have read so far, underlined. I hope to also write a book review for each one as I read it, but again, that’s an “I hope.” I have the tendency to get distracted easily and I always have 100 things going on at once! Wish me luck readers! Oh, and if you decide to join me, watching the movie doesn’t count!!!! That’s cheating! Plus, you miss so many details that come up in the book, which you can’t witness on the big screen.
1. Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
3. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
4. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer
5. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions) by Helen Keller, Candace Ward
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
7. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner
8. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
9. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
11. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
12. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
13. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
15. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
16. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
17. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bill Hayden, Anne Elixhauser
18. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer, Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles
19. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
20. The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) by Pearl S. Buck
21. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
22. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
24. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
25. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
26. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
27. Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) by Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach, David J. Skal
28. The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. Les Miserables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock, Norman MacAfee
30. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
31. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
33. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
34. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
37. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
38. Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens
39. Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
41. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen, Anna Quindlen
42. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, B.M. Mooyaart, Eleanor Roosevelt
43. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
44. Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics) by Lewis Carroll
46. The Stand by Stephen King
47. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
48. Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley
49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
50. East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
51. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
52. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
53. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père, Robin Buss
54. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy) by Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland
55. The Holy Bible: New King James Version (NKJV) by Thomas Nelson
56. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
57. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mark Twain
58. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
59. Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) by L. M. Montgomery, Jennifer Lee Carroll
60. The Giver by Lois Lowry
61. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn
62. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
63. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
64. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard
65. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
66. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
67. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sandra M. Gilbert
68. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
69. A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens
70. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'Engle
71. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell
72. Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
73. Night by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
74. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
75. Lord of the Flies by William Golding, E. L. Epstein
76. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
77. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
78. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) by Suzanne Collins
79. Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins
80. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
81. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott
82. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
83. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye
84. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
85. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition by George Orwell, Ann Patchett
86. Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy
87. Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions) by Charlotte Brontë, Richard J. Dunn
88. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
89. The Hobbit (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Pre-Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
90. Little Women (Bantam Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
91. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Garth Williams, Rosemary Wells
92. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
93. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
94. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell, Erich Fromm
95. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
96. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
97. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
98. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
99. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
100. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPre
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