List time...

Here is one of those lists that a found on a few literary blogs (English as well as Swedish- bokidioten, MALIN, Ikas ord 2.0, Fiber adict, among others). Being of a rather competitive nature, I must of course add my humble list with notes in brackets....

This is how it goes:
bold for the books you have read
italics for the ones you want to read
cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole,
(+) in front of the ones on your book shelf,
(*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) [I actually found it entertaining ]
2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) [well, everyone must have had a Austin period although I can't really read and enjoy her nowadays as the hopelessly anti-romantic that I have become]
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) [one of those that I never got to]
4. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)[loved it when I have my fantasy period from 4th to 8th grade]
6. +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. +The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. +Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) [beloved girl books. I read the whole series at least 10 times]
9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J. K Rowling) [I don't love Harry Potter, but I have read most books and Rowling really deserves all praise for turning kids to books again]
12. +Angel and Demons (Dan Brown) [well, one Brown was entertaining two was too much]
13. +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J. K Rowling)
14. +A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) [My book! Although I haven't read it yet]
15. A Memory of A Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. +Harry Potter and the Philosopher'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 Brontë)
21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) [read it when I was 22 and I didn't like it. I think I should re-read it and see what happens]
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 Brontë)
28. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) [loved the series in my fantasy period and read them all a lot of times]
29. +East of Eden (John Steinbeck)[love Steinbeck but haven't read this one]
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) [pretentious and annoying]
41. The Ckan 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. + 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) [fantastic book love it]
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 (J.K Rowling)
58. +The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. +The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) [great book!]
60. + The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. +Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) [[read it when I was 18 and had my Russian classic period. I'm not sure I understood them and I had a hard time to keep the characters apart - they have so many names and nick names]
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) [I have not read enough of Marquez books, I hope to get to it soon)
67. *The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. +Les Miserables (Hugo)[another classic I haven't got to, this must be fixed]
70.+The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. +Bridget Jones Diary (Fielding) [entertaining, not my favorite]
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) [I got this as a Christmas gift 1985 and I absolutely loved it]
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. +The World According To Garp (John Irving) [Great book. I love Irving's crazy characters and witty writing]
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)[loved it as a kid, listen at it on the radio as well]
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 (A 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) [had to read it English in high school and I really liked it a lot]
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. +The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) [great but very American book]
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton) [I loved, loved, loved this book when I was in 9th grade. Never saw the movie though. Must do that]
98. *White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. *A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)[almost in any case.]