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Over a year ago, I'd come across a group of people who were attempting to read 100 great books in 5 years. It sounded like a great idea and a friend and I started ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
100project for doing the same thing. I haven't really looked at my list in awhile because it was under my old account and I hadn't taken the time to get it reposted.
This morning, I took the time and discovered I've read... 4 books. Four out of a hundred in a little over a year. *sigh* I did redo the list a little, in light of some of my changing habits. I included the history books I'm reading because who's going to read 1200 pages of history without getting a little credit for it!
I thought I would share my list here and invite anyone else to come over to the community that wants to do the same thing!
1. Mansfield Park :: Jane Austen
2. Northanger Abbey :: Jane Austen
3. Persuasion :: Jane Austen
4. Black :: Ted Dekker
5. Red :: Ted Dekker
6. White :: Ted Dekker
7. Watership Down :: Richard Adams
8. Plague Dogs :: Richard Adams
9. Middlemarch :: George Eliot
10. Middlesex :: Jeffery Eugenides
11. The Thin Man :: Dashiell Hammett
12. The Kite-Runner :: Khaled Hosseini
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns :: Khaled Hosseini
14. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union :: Michael Chabon
15. Wonder Boys :: Michael Chabon
16.Maps and Legends :: Michael Chabon
17. The Summer Queen :: Joan D. Vigne
18. The Magicians :: Lev Grossman
19. Saturn’s Children :: Charles Stross
20. The Art of Racing the Rain :: Garth Stein
21. Paper Towns :: John Green
22. Looking for Alaska :: John Green
23. Nation :: Terry Pratchett
24. On the Jellicoe Road :: Melina Marchetta
25. The Isles: A History :: Norman Davies
26. Europe: A History :: Norman Davies
27. Hood :: Stephen Lawhead
28. Scarlet :: Stephen Lawhead
29. Tuck :: Stephen Lawhead
30. Tender is the Night :: F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Breakfast at Tiffany’s :: Truman Capote
32. The Stone Diaries :: Carol Shields
33. Rainbow Mars :: Larry Niven
34. Misery :: Stephen King
35. The Lovely Bones :: Alice Sebold
36.Casino Royale :: Ian Fleming
37. Live and Let Die :: Ian Fleming
38. Three Junes :: Julia Glass
39. Vanity Fair :: William Thackeray
40. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court :: Mark Twain
41. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings :: Maya Angelou
42.The Corrections :: Jonathan Franzen
43. The Quiet American :: Graham Greene
44. Decline and Fall :: Evelyn Waugh
45. Scoop :: Evelyn Waugh
46. Helena :: Evelyn Waugh
47. The Secret Life of Bees :: Sue Monk Kidd
48. The Kitchen God’s Wife :: Amy Tan
49. The Joy Luck Club :: Amy Tan
50. Digging to America :: Anne Tyler
51. Ender’s Game :: Orsen Scott Card
52. The Saffron Kitchen :: Yasmin Crowther
53. Bleeding Kansas :: Sara Paretsky
54. Zen in the Art of Writing :: Ray Bradbury
55.A Girl Named Zippy :: Haven Kimmel
56. Wizard’s First Rule :: Terry Goodkind
57. Stone of Tears :: Terry Goodkind
58. Blood of the Fold :: Terry Goodkind
59. Temple of the Winds :: Terry Goodkind
60. Kushiel’s Dart :: Jacqueline Carey
61. Marley & Me :: John Grogan
62. Drum Roll :: Ernest Heminway
63. The Hours :: Michael Cunningham
64. Plan B :: Anne Lamott
65. The Invisible Man :: H.G. Wells
66. All Things Considered :: G. K. Chesteron
67. Straddling the Borders – The Year I Grew Up In Italy :: Martha T. Cummings
68. Looking for Class – Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge :: Bruce Feller
69. The Company They Keep – CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community :: Diana Glyer
70. Water for Elephants :: Sara Gruen
71. Wildseed :: Octavia Butler
72. The Host :: Stephanie Meyer
73. The Shape Changer’s Wife :: Sharon Shinn
74.Deja Dead :: Kathy Reich
75. Death Du Jour :: Kathy Reich
76. Boneshaker :: Cherie Priest
77. Three Cups of Tea :: Greg Mortenson
78. The Mists of Avalon :: Marion Zimmer Bradley
79. Credo :: Melvyn Bragg
80. Orlando :: Virginia Woolf
81. Planet Narnia :: Michael Ward
82. The Color Purple :: Alice Walker
83. The Wings of the Dove :: Henry James
84. The Golden Notebook :: Doris Lessing
85. The Fifth Child :: Doris Lessing
86. Clockwork Heart :: Dru Pagliassotti
87. Passage to India :: EM Forster
88. Peony in Love :: Lisa See
89. Memoirs of a Geisha :: Arthur Golden
90. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin :: Louis De Bernieres
91. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society :: Mary Ann Shaffer
92. The Scarlet Letter :: Nathaniel Hawthorne
93. Sun Dancing :: Geoffrey Moorhouse
94. The Namesake :: Jhumpa Lahiri
95. The Moonstone :: Wilkie Collins
96. March :: Geraldine Brooks
97. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy :: Douglas Adams
98. (the second HGttG book) :: Douglas Adams
99. A Tale of Two Cities :: Charles Dickens
100. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? :: Philip K. Dick
Today I started Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. This book is one of the reason I didn't ever watch Legend of the Seeker AND the main reason I'm sorry it's been canceled. I want to watch it after I read at least ONE of the books.
After that, I need to get back to The Isles: A History and get that done. I've only got about 300 more words, after all. It should be done in no time. *grins*
100project for doing the same thing. I haven't really looked at my list in awhile because it was under my old account and I hadn't taken the time to get it reposted.This morning, I took the time and discovered I've read... 4 books. Four out of a hundred in a little over a year. *sigh* I did redo the list a little, in light of some of my changing habits. I included the history books I'm reading because who's going to read 1200 pages of history without getting a little credit for it!
I thought I would share my list here and invite anyone else to come over to the community that wants to do the same thing!
1. Mansfield Park :: Jane Austen
2. Northanger Abbey :: Jane Austen
3. Persuasion :: Jane Austen
4. Black :: Ted Dekker
5. Red :: Ted Dekker
6. White :: Ted Dekker
7. Watership Down :: Richard Adams
8. Plague Dogs :: Richard Adams
9. Middlemarch :: George Eliot
10. Middlesex :: Jeffery Eugenides
11. The Thin Man :: Dashiell Hammett
12. The Kite-Runner :: Khaled Hosseini
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns :: Khaled Hosseini
14. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union :: Michael Chabon
15. Wonder Boys :: Michael Chabon
16.
17. The Summer Queen :: Joan D. Vigne
18. The Magicians :: Lev Grossman
19. Saturn’s Children :: Charles Stross
20. The Art of Racing the Rain :: Garth Stein
21. Paper Towns :: John Green
22. Looking for Alaska :: John Green
23. Nation :: Terry Pratchett
24. On the Jellicoe Road :: Melina Marchetta
25. The Isles: A History :: Norman Davies
26. Europe: A History :: Norman Davies
27. Hood :: Stephen Lawhead
28. Scarlet :: Stephen Lawhead
29. Tuck :: Stephen Lawhead
30. Tender is the Night :: F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Breakfast at Tiffany’s :: Truman Capote
32. The Stone Diaries :: Carol Shields
33. Rainbow Mars :: Larry Niven
34. Misery :: Stephen King
35. The Lovely Bones :: Alice Sebold
36.
37. Live and Let Die :: Ian Fleming
38. Three Junes :: Julia Glass
39. Vanity Fair :: William Thackeray
40. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court :: Mark Twain
41. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings :: Maya Angelou
42.
43. The Quiet American :: Graham Greene
44. Decline and Fall :: Evelyn Waugh
45. Scoop :: Evelyn Waugh
46. Helena :: Evelyn Waugh
47. The Secret Life of Bees :: Sue Monk Kidd
48. The Kitchen God’s Wife :: Amy Tan
49. The Joy Luck Club :: Amy Tan
50. Digging to America :: Anne Tyler
51. Ender’s Game :: Orsen Scott Card
52. The Saffron Kitchen :: Yasmin Crowther
53. Bleeding Kansas :: Sara Paretsky
54. Zen in the Art of Writing :: Ray Bradbury
55.
56. Wizard’s First Rule :: Terry Goodkind
57. Stone of Tears :: Terry Goodkind
58. Blood of the Fold :: Terry Goodkind
59. Temple of the Winds :: Terry Goodkind
60. Kushiel’s Dart :: Jacqueline Carey
61. Marley & Me :: John Grogan
62. Drum Roll :: Ernest Heminway
63. The Hours :: Michael Cunningham
64. Plan B :: Anne Lamott
65. The Invisible Man :: H.G. Wells
66. All Things Considered :: G. K. Chesteron
67. Straddling the Borders – The Year I Grew Up In Italy :: Martha T. Cummings
68. Looking for Class – Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge :: Bruce Feller
69. The Company They Keep – CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community :: Diana Glyer
70. Water for Elephants :: Sara Gruen
71. Wildseed :: Octavia Butler
72. The Host :: Stephanie Meyer
73. The Shape Changer’s Wife :: Sharon Shinn
74.
75. Death Du Jour :: Kathy Reich
76. Boneshaker :: Cherie Priest
77. Three Cups of Tea :: Greg Mortenson
78. The Mists of Avalon :: Marion Zimmer Bradley
79. Credo :: Melvyn Bragg
80. Orlando :: Virginia Woolf
81. Planet Narnia :: Michael Ward
82. The Color Purple :: Alice Walker
83. The Wings of the Dove :: Henry James
84. The Golden Notebook :: Doris Lessing
85. The Fifth Child :: Doris Lessing
86. Clockwork Heart :: Dru Pagliassotti
87. Passage to India :: EM Forster
88. Peony in Love :: Lisa See
89. Memoirs of a Geisha :: Arthur Golden
90. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin :: Louis De Bernieres
91. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society :: Mary Ann Shaffer
92. The Scarlet Letter :: Nathaniel Hawthorne
93. Sun Dancing :: Geoffrey Moorhouse
94. The Namesake :: Jhumpa Lahiri
95. The Moonstone :: Wilkie Collins
96. March :: Geraldine Brooks
97. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy :: Douglas Adams
98. (the second HGttG book) :: Douglas Adams
99. A Tale of Two Cities :: Charles Dickens
100. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? :: Philip K. Dick
Today I started Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. This book is one of the reason I didn't ever watch Legend of the Seeker AND the main reason I'm sorry it's been canceled. I want to watch it after I read at least ONE of the books.
After that, I need to get back to The Isles: A History and get that done. I've only got about 300 more words, after all. It should be done in no time. *grins*
