I've stolen this from Libby. It's 100 books everyone should read. I don't know that I agree completely and I know I'd add some that are missing. Hemmingway anyone? I thought for sure I would have read more, but I'm only at 28. Make your own list and let us know what you've read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen – YES—you’ll notice a trend, she’s my favorite author so I own the complete works
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – NO and never ever will
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – again, never will
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - YES
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8 1984 - George Orwell -
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - YES
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - YES
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller –
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – I’ve only read what they made us read in school
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - YES
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot-
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - YES
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - YES
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens-
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
28 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck –YES, under recommendation of my grandpa and favorite English teacher in high school. Smart men.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
34 Emma - Jane Austen - YES
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - YES
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - YES
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres-
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne –
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell –YES, and hated it
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - YES
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 -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood – YES, everyone should read this one
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - YES
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 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 – YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold –
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding -
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - YES
80 Possession - AS Byatt-
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - YES
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - YES
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton –
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupe –
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – YES, but I liked Matilda more. It was my first “chapter book” in 2nd grade.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo –
2/12/09
2 Projects
Remember the purse I mentioned making for my grandma after Thanksgiving? It's coming along, slowly but surely. One side is done. I've started the backside that will be solid dark green. I still haven't decided what I want to do for the straps. Do I want to knit a strap or buy straps? Anyway, here's the front side, unfelted.
I'm also making myself the short row rib scarf. I LOVE doing short rows. The effect just amazes me for some reason. It's especially pretty in the Noro Kureyon I'm using because the color changes line up pretty well with the direction changes. My attempts to post these pictures aren't working, but I'll keep trying.
I'm also making myself the short row rib scarf. I LOVE doing short rows. The effect just amazes me for some reason. It's especially pretty in the Noro Kureyon I'm using because the color changes line up pretty well with the direction changes. My attempts to post these pictures aren't working, but I'll keep trying.
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