Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Lauren's List

Here's my 5 year list. I'm using a combination of TBR, banned books, award winners, 1001 books, and miscellaneous books that came to mind or I saw others were listing. Quite a few are on my list for this year alone so hopefully 5 years will be enough time for some of the really long ones.

  1. Oliver Twist
  2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  3. Fahrenheit 451
  4. The Clockwork Orange
  5. The Lord of the Rings (series)
  6. Les Miserables
  7. Lord of the Flies
  8. Catch 22
  9. A Wrinkle in Time
  10. Catcher in the Rye
  11. Ulysses
  12. Slaughterhouse Five
  13. Lolita
  14. Brokeback Mountain
  15. Atonement
  16. Cold Mountain
  17. David Copperfield
  18. Emma
  19. Northanger Abbey
  20. Mansfield Park
  21. Giants in the Earth
  22. I, Claudius
  23. Memoirs of a Geisha
  24. The Bell Jar
  25. The Blind Assassin
  26. The Divine Comedy (Paradiso & Purgatorio)
  27. Utopia
  28. A Farewell to Arms
  29. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  30. Sons and Lovers
  31. Animal Farm
  32. The Canterbury Tales
  33. The Color Purple
  34. Crime and Punishment
  35. Wuthering Heights
  36. Gone With the Wind
  37. Schindler’s List
  38. The Fountainhead
  39. The Poisonwood Bible
  40. The Audacity of Hope
  41. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  42. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  43. Atlas Shrugged
  44. It
  45. The Hours
  46. Charlotte’s Web
  47. The Hobbit
  48. Life of Pi
  49. In Cold Blood
  50. The Graduate
  51. Anna Karenina
  52. Villette
  53. Bleak House
  54. The Three Musketeers
  55. The Count of Monte Cristo
  56. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  57. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  58. Mrs. Dalloway
  59. The English Patient
  60. Into the Wild
  61. The Iliad
  62. The Odyssey
  63. Rebecca
  64. Three Cups of tea
  65. Carrie
  66. Blonde
  67. The Book Thief
  68. Spook
  69. Bonk
  70. Brando
  71. A Mighty Heart
  72. Interview with a Vampire
  73. House of Mirth
  74. Fried Green Tomatoes
  75. Four Past Midnight
  76. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  77. Thank You For Smoking
  78. The Eyre Affair
  79. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  80. The Secret Garden
  81. The Witches of Eastwick
  82. Where the Red Fern Grows
  83. Eat, Pray, Love
  84. Chocolat
  85. A Thousand Splendid Suns
  86. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  87. Freedom Writer’s Diary
  88. Marley and Me
  89. Stardust
  90. The Children of Men
  91. The Lace Reader
  92. The Other Boleyn Girl
  93. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  94. Love in the Time of Cholera
  95. A Million Little Pieces
  96. Vinegar Hill
  97. Ellen Foster
  98. Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
  99. Brothers Karamazov
  100. Le Divorce

2 comments:

Jen A said...

I'll be really interested to see what you think of The Witches of Eastwick when you read it - we just read it for my book club last month, and there were definitely varying opinions. And YAY for Fried Green Tomatoes!!

Alyssa said...

What a good idea to include banned books!