Leslie

Hi everyone! I'm excited about this project. So excited that I've been messing around w/my list TOO much. First it was going to be 100% classics...then it was going to be....well, I'll spare you the play-by-play. There are still some classics on my list, but it is a mixture of books that are on my shelves already and are demanding to be read. Like another member mentioned, I also have a book-buying "problem"..it would be interesting for us all to catalog our libraries and compare. Another project for perhaps 6 years from now?

Here is my 5 year plan:

1) The Man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas
2) Gift from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3) South: The Endurance Expedition – Ernest Shackelton
4) The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
5) Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
6) Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
7) The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
8) Great Dames – Marie Brenner
9) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
10) The Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan
11) A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
12) The Art of Happiness – the Dalai Lama
13) Without Feathers/Getting Even/Side Effects – Woody Allen
14) The Oxford Book of Essays – John Gross
15) Tevye’s Daughters – Sholom Aleichen
16) Ten Thousand Sorrows – Elizabeth Kim
17) The Discovery of the Titanic – Robert Ballard
18) An Incomplete Education – Judy Jones & William Wilson
19) How to Be Alone – Jonathan Frazen
20) Slaves in the Family – Edward Ball
21) Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
22) The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
23) Awakenings/A Leg To Stand On/The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat/Seeing Voices – Oliver Sacks
24) Sarum – Edward Rutherford
25) The Inheritance – Louisa May Alcott
26) Lost Laysen – Margaret Mitchell
27) The Coral Island – R.M. Ballatore
28) Tales of the South Pacific – James Michener
29) The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
30) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
31) The White – Deborah Larsen
32) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Michael Chabon
33) The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
34) A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
35) Double Indemnity/The Postman Always Rings Twice – James K Cain
36) A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
37) The Reading Group – Elizabeth Noble
38) The Third Chimpanzee – Jared Diamond
39) The Virtue of Selfishness – Ayn Rand
40) The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
41) The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
42) The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
43) Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
44) The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
45) Alone – Richard E. Byrd
46) The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
47) Tender at the Bone – Ruth Reichl
48) The Book Thief – Mark Zusak
49) Funnymen – Ted Heller
50) Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
51) The World’s Religions – Huston Smith
52) Barrel Fever – David Sedaris
53) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
54) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – Sogyal Rinpoche
55) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
56) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
57) Aphrodite – Isabel Allende
58) City of Thieves - David Benioff
59) A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
60) Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
61) The Worst Hard Time – Timothy Egan
62) Age & Guile – P.J. O’Rourke
63) Foreign Correspondence – Geraldine Brooks
64) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
65) Magical Thinking – Augusten Burroughs
66) Them – Jon Ronson
67) The Madonnas of Leningrad – Debra Dean
68) The Olive Season – Carol Drinkwater
69) Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
70) I Am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
71) A Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir - Beverly Cleary
72) Suite Française – Irene Nemirovsky
73) Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
74) Scribbling the Cat – Alexandra Fuller
75) The Castle in the Forest – Norman Mailer
76) Hitler’s Niece – Ron Hansen
77) Election – Tom Perrotta
78) Wherever You Go, There You Are – Jon Kabat-Zinn
79) Hyper-chondriac – Brian Frazer
80) The Devil in the White City – Eric Larson
81) Encore Provence – Peter Mayle
82) Angela’s Ashes/Tis/Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
83) Drinking: A Love Story – Caroline Knapp
84) Stolen Lives – Malika Oufkir
85) Taft – Ann Patchett
86) The Lord of the Rings trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
87) Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
88) Empire Falls – Richard Russo
89) A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
90) Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Moseley
91) Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
92) The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
93) A Disorder Peculiar to the Country – Ken Kalfus
94) Auntie Mame – Patrick Dennis
95) IV A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas – Chuck Klosterman
96) Still Alice - Lisa Genova
97) Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
98) Little Bee – Chris Cleave
99) Grizzly Heart – Charlie Russell & Maureen Enns
100) Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson