I've seen this floating around some other blogs, thought I'd take a stab at it!
Look at the list of books below:
Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. If you are reading this (and haven't participated yet), tag, you’re it!
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18 The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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)
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)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
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)
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
46. Anna Karenina (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 (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58.The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
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)
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 (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (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 (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 (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)9
6.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)
25/100.....mmm not so good. I've got to get reading....there are not enough hours in a day!!!!!
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
Desert Island Picks
If you were stranded on a desert island what 10 books would you want?
While browsing the responses to the question posed on Nancy Pearl's Book Lust wiki I found myself thinking, "Yea, right!" The responses included The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, T.S. Elliot and Charles Dickens. I don't know about you, but I'd choose those only if I wanted to bore myself to death! I had to read these authors for my undergraduate degree. As an English major, I knew what I was getting into and had no right to complain. However, if I were trapped on a desert island and was only allowed 10 books, they would not be books with serious literary value. No sirree, I would choose completely based on entertainment value. My desert island list does not include any staples of Classic Literature. Let's be honest here, when you go on vacation do you lug around a Complete Works of Shakespeare? Not normally! So, here is my completely non-Academic, non-literary(but by God, I'd be enjoying my self) desert island book list!
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, the first in the Outlander series. While I love all the books in this series, none compare to how Jamie and Claire's story began!
5. Jamie by Lori Foster. This is the final installment of her Visitation series. Jamie, a mysterious, but appealing character in the other Visitation books, finally gets his story told and it couldn't be soon enough for the fans of this series. Throughout the series the reader's curiosity builds about the mysterious loner and finally, our curiosity gets satisfied!
While browsing the responses to the question posed on Nancy Pearl's Book Lust wiki I found myself thinking, "Yea, right!" The responses included The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, T.S. Elliot and Charles Dickens. I don't know about you, but I'd choose those only if I wanted to bore myself to death! I had to read these authors for my undergraduate degree. As an English major, I knew what I was getting into and had no right to complain. However, if I were trapped on a desert island and was only allowed 10 books, they would not be books with serious literary value. No sirree, I would choose completely based on entertainment value. My desert island list does not include any staples of Classic Literature. Let's be honest here, when you go on vacation do you lug around a Complete Works of Shakespeare? Not normally! So, here is my completely non-Academic, non-literary(but by God, I'd be enjoying my self) desert island book list!
My preference for reading books in a series makes this difficult, as I'd want the whole series but sometimes we have to make tough decisions....here goes nothing!
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, the first in the Outlander series. While I love all the books in this series, none compare to how Jamie and Claire's story began!2. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie. Crusie is a master of writing 
heartfelt stories complete with humor, sizzle and a dachshund or two. While I don't believe there is a dachshund in this book, it is full of humor and fun!
heartfelt stories complete with humor, sizzle and a dachshund or two. While I don't believe there is a dachshund in this book, it is full of humor and fun!3. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich. The fourth book in 
her hilariously, quirky Stephanie Plum Bounty-Hunter series, I found the antics of Stephanie, Lula and Grandma Mazur to be particularly laugh-out-loud funny!
her hilariously, quirky Stephanie Plum Bounty-Hunter series, I found the antics of Stephanie, Lula and Grandma Mazur to be particularly laugh-out-loud funny!4. The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton. Book 6 in Hamilton's Anita 
Blake Vampire Hunter Series, Anita struggles for her feelings between Jean-Claude, vampire and the Master of the City, and Richard, middle school teacher and leader of the local were-wolf pack.
Blake Vampire Hunter Series, Anita struggles for her feelings between Jean-Claude, vampire and the Master of the City, and Richard, middle school teacher and leader of the local were-wolf pack. 
5. Jamie by Lori Foster. This is the final installment of her Visitation series. Jamie, a mysterious, but appealing character in the other Visitation books, finally gets his story told and it couldn't be soon enough for the fans of this series. Throughout the series the reader's curiosity builds about the mysterious loner and finally, our curiosity gets satisfied!6. Lucky's Lady by Tami Hoag. One of the first romance's I ever
read, to this day it is still one of my favorites! Lucky, the Cajun hero, is one of the most memorable hero's in the romance genre. Gotta love a little spice in your life!
read, to this day it is still one of my favorites! Lucky, the Cajun hero, is one of the most memorable hero's in the romance genre. Gotta love a little spice in your life! 7. Heart of Fire by Linda Howard. Having read most of Howard's works I 
can confidently say this is by far one of my favorites! Heart of Fire is action packed with plenty of sizzling romance between the hero, Ben Lewis and the heroine, Jillian Sherwood.
can confidently say this is by far one of my favorites! Heart of Fire is action packed with plenty of sizzling romance between the hero, Ben Lewis and the heroine, Jillian Sherwood.8. Out of Control by Suzanne Brockmann. Part of Brockmann's Navy SEAL
Troubleshooter series, Out of Control is Ken "Wildcard" Karmody's story. Throughout the series Wildcard was one of my favorite characters and it was good to finally see Wildcard get his own story.
Troubleshooter series, Out of Control is Ken "Wildcard" Karmody's story. Throughout the series Wildcard was one of my favorite characters and it was good to finally see Wildcard get his own story. 9. Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips! 
She, perhaps more than any other author I've read, can create characters you both love and, at times, wish you could throttle. Case in point, Kenny Traveler. Immediately, his warped sense of humor appeals to me but his apparent laziness makes me want to smack him around a tad bit! In the end the chemistry between Kenny and Lady Emma is irresistible!
She, perhaps more than any other author I've read, can create characters you both love and, at times, wish you could throttle. Case in point, Kenny Traveler. Immediately, his warped sense of humor appeals to me but his apparent laziness makes me want to smack him around a tad bit! In the end the chemistry between Kenny and Lady Emma is irresistible! 10. Open Season by Linda Howard. Yep, two from the same author! As a
librarian, I couldn't have my top 10 desert island reads without representing my beloved profession! Daisy Minor, a mild mannered librarian turns out to be nothing but trouble for police chief, Jack Russo.
librarian, I couldn't have my top 10 desert island reads without representing my beloved profession! Daisy Minor, a mild mannered librarian turns out to be nothing but trouble for police chief, Jack Russo.
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