2. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khalad Hosseini
4. “...And Ladies of the Club” – Helen Hoover Santmyer
5. Atonement – Ian McEwan
6. Being Committed – Anna Maxted
7. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
8. Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
9. Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
10. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
11. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
13. Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
14. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
15. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
16. Empire Falls – Richard Russo
17. Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
19. Firefly Summer – Mauve Binchey
21. God: A Biography – Jack Miles
22. Harvesting the Heart – Jodi Picoult
23. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
24. Howard’s End – E.M. Forster
25. I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lamb
26. I So Don’t Do Mysteries – Barrie Summy
28. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
29. La Storia ; Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience – Jerre Mangione &
Ben Morreale
30. Lady of the Glen – Jennifer Roberson
31. Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
32. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
33. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Lucia, Lucia – Adrianna Trigiani
36. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
37. Mercy – Jodi Picoult
38. Needful Things – Stephen King
39. Nights of Rain and Stars – Mauve Binchey
40. No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew it Cause Bill
Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again – Edgardo Vega Yunque
41. Nobody’s Fool – Richard Russo
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel – Carlene Brice
44. Paradise – Toni Morrison
46. Sacajawea – Anna Lee Waldo
47. Saint Thomas Aquinas Selected Writings (Heritage Press)
48. Savvy – Ingrid Law
49. Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand
50. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
51. Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia – Cindy Pon
52. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
53. Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
54. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
55. The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
57. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
58. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
59. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
60. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
61. The Forest House – Marion Zimmer Bradley
62. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
64. The Green Mile – Stephen King
65. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
66. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
67. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
68. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
69. The Iliad - Homer
70. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
71. The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
72. The Kite Runner – Khalad Hosseini
73. The Lady of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
74. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
75. The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
76. The Lords of Discipline – Pat Conroy
77. The Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd
78. The Mommy Myth – Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
79. The Pickwick Paper – Charles Dickens
80. The Ragamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning
81. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
82. The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi – Jacqueline Park
83. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
84. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
85. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
86. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
87. The Winner – David Baldacci
88. The Woman Next Door – Barbara Delinsky
89. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar – Margaret Starbird
90. The World According to Garp – John Irving
91. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
92. Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose
93. Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
94. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thacheray
95. Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightening – Danette Haworth
96. Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
97. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
98. We Were the Mulvaney’s – Joyce Carol Oates
99. White Oleander – Janet Fitch
100. Why I am a Catholic – Garry Wills
13 comments:
Merry i love your list, oh i've almost read nothing on it *sigh* i thought i was well-read too!!
Hi Emily,
Actually, I started Faulkner and hated it.. but I've always wanted to make myself read the whole thing because it's so blasphemous for a writer not to like Faulkner, so I feel like I must've been missing something.
Sense and Sensibility I did read a long time ago, but I don't remember much of it, and I think I might have been a little young to get it, so I've always wanted to reread that one.
This should be a really fun project. Thanks again for taking the time to set all this up! The blog looks great.
You are brave to take on James Joyce.
Merry - In terms of Faulkner, As I Lay Dying is far superior to The Sound and the Fury, and is much easier to read (while still being in the stream of consciousnes style). I loved AILD but really didn't like TS&TF.
Hi Freddie,
Thanks *gulp*
Hi Amanda,
Moonrat said the same thing, and I thought about starting with A Fable... I'm going to try this one first though - if I absolutely hate it, I might switch to a different one... but in fairness, I first tried Faulkner when I was pretty young, so maybe it just wasn't the right time for me. (I did the same thing with Melville, when I was twenty he was too dry - tried him again ten years later and loved it).
I personally LOVED The Sound and The Fury, but it was definitely very challenging. If you want to try something a little less dense from him, though, Sanctuary and Go Down Moses are both great and much easier reads.
yeah, i REALLY love sound & fury. like, it's my favorite book. but yeah, it's hard.
Wow, Faust and Ivanhoe. I wish I were so inclined. Too much of a classics wuss.
*Scribbling down book titles that sound awesome and somehow missed on my list*
Merry - #97 Water for Elephants - I entered the author as Sarah Gruen in the master list. I'm assuming that's what you meant? If I'm wrong, let me know and I'll correct that.
Hi JC,
I love classics, but I've fallen away from them over the last few years, reading newer releases a lot more. We'll see how I do with these - they've actually been on my shelf for a long time.
Mya,
That's funny - I've been reading everyone else's lists and there's always a few that make me want to kick myself because I didn't include them in mine :-)
Hi Amanda,
Yes, it's Sara Gruen! I'm an idiot. I must've gotten confused copytyping it so it would be alphabetical - Frances Mayes wrote Under the Tuscan Sun. Thanks for catching it - I'll see if I can edit the post.
Merry, I think we ALL have that same issue. I had Babbitt under Sinclair instead of Lewis, and the wrong author for The Secret Garden...yeah. I think that's natural for 100 lists. :)
Okay Fixed.
Jen and Moonie,
Thanks - I'm going to stick with this one, but I'm adding your suggestions to my to be read pile if this one doesn't kill me :-)
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