Books, books and more books!

[lar_laughs]

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 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*

Comments

[leigh-adams.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Richard Cypher...



NOM.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Did you need a good excuse to spend a lot of time at my journal? *grins* He is very, very pretty!

[meridian_rose]

That's a lot of books! And yes, nonfiction should totally count!

There's this split about the books vs the Legend shows where people who loved the books hated the show vs the people who loved both. And everytime I'd think about reading a book, someone would post how misogynistic it was, esp compared to how positively the show women are portrayed. Or how book!Richard makes dull speeches for hours on end. Or how book!Rahl is the irredeemably evil blonde guy rather than the tortured complex dark haired man (that I'm slightly obsessed with!).
Looks like we're trying to a read along at Legendland later this month though, so I guess I'll see for myself :)

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm going to actually read the first four or change that to just the first two. Since I have only seen one or two episodes so far, I don't have a lot of preconceived notions. So far, I'm enjoying the story. It'll be interesting to see what you and the others at Legendland think after your read along!

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

I found Terry Goodkind's books unreadable and that was even after going into it really positive and unaware of how not good it was, but the show is fun. And a lot of that had to do with the awesomeness of the cast. Men seem to like the books and women seem to like the show.

[innerslytherin]

Yeah, I started reading the books when Wizard's First Rule came out in paperback. I liked the first book all right, but by the second book I was feeling very meh about it and by the third I was all O.O about it and quit reading entirely. LOL Then again, I did that with GRRM as well, and I think your sister said you're the one who put her onto GRRM. Reading taste is so funny!

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

I have lots of love for GRRM's series. It has a lot of my favorite fantasy kinks in it and I have no trouble with high body counts. My new favorite character shows up in the latest book for example. I also loved Ben and Juliet from LOST so accepting new characters and moving on from old ones comes easy to me. Everyone has different requirements when they read though. I might have been more open to Wizards First Rule pre-college, but since then I have had a lot of trouble just reading any old fantasy book. Too many books and not enough time. Too bad because I totally wanted to read more things to do with Kahlan, but writing style and voice was just so off-putting I couldn't do it. I had the same reaction to the popular Dresden books and the Temeraire series. I'm probably in the minority then, but it isn't like I don't have other things to read and can't move on to the next in my pile.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I'm about 200 pages in and liking it so far. I like epics so I guess I'm the exception to the rule.

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

It is a popular series. Even two guys from work who hardly read like them. I'm really picky these days I guess. The only fantasy post-college that I've enjoyed was stuff by CJ Cherryh, CS Friedman, and GMMR. And Jonathan Strange if you count that. Oh, and Terry Pratchett if that counts. That would be the total of it. I've got one foot out of the genre more or less.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I think Pratchett is in a class all his own!

[innerslytherin]

It's amazing how many of those 100 books I have read and hated. LOL Though I really loved The Scarlet Letter and at least the original trilogy of the Hitchiker's Guide. (I think, though I could be wrong, that it really WAS just a trilogy when I read them, and I never got around to reading book five at all.)

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making me want to dive into this list. *grins*