Book Mania

Got this from Katherine and Janssen - why not?

In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, put a # in front of the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - not sure why, but someday I'll find out what the hype was all about.
+2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
+3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) I hated the movie, but Sam says the book makes everything better. We'll see. Eventually.
+5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
+6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
+7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (J.R.R. 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 (J.K. Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) -I'll probably read this before Da Vinci Code - I've heard it's better.
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)- I got about 6 chapters into this one in high school. I'd like to try again.
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
+16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
*17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
*18. The Stand (Stephen King)
+19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
+20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)- favorite book ever.
+21. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)-also a favorite. I think I've read it 4 times.
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)-I'll be reading this one soon for Adolescent Lit
+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 (George Orwell)
*35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
*36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)-I saw the movie in AP World History- fabulous.
*38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) - we used to talk about this a lot during my freshman year. We wanted to turn our apartment into the red apartment. It was all on hearsay though - I'll have to read it to see if that was a good thing or not.
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
*41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
*42.The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) Katherine said it was good, so I guess I'll be adding it to the list.
*43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
+45. Bible
+46. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
+47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)-not sure about whether or not I'll read this.
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 (Charles Dickens)
+53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
+54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald)
*56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
+57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. 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) -made it halfway through and started reading Spindle's End instead
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)-I sort of want to read this, but my brother said it was pretty dark, so I'll probably skip it.
*65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
*66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) - again, made it halfway through, got distracted.
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
#71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Helen Fielding)-probably not.
*72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)-don't know anything about this except it was a movie.
+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 (John 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)-love his short stories. I could try this one.
*91. In the Skin of a Lion (Michael Ondaatje)
+92. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)-another I'll be reading soon for Adolescent Lit.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
+94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) - best book of 8th grade
*97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
*98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
*99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)