Because it's easier than thinking and composing thoughtful essays, I am forced to follow Grrlscientist's example:
- The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (JRR Tolkien)
- The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
- The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (JRR Tolkien)
- Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
- Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
- A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
- Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (JK Rowling)
- Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
- The Stand (Stephen King)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
- The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
- Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
- I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
- The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
- The Bible
- Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
- The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)
- The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
- Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
- Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Shogun (James Clavell)
- The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- The World According to Garp (John Irving)
- The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
- Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
- Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
- Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)
- Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
- Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
- Emma (Jane Austen)
- Watership Down (Richard Adams)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
- Blindness (Jose Saramago)
- Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
- In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
- Lord of the Flies (Golding)
- The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
- The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
- The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
- The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
- White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
- A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
- The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
- Ulysses (James Joyce) [well, half of it anyway]
I am ashamed to admit I read that tripe by Dan Brown. Please be assured that I have not compounded the error by reading anything else he wrote.
Comments
I picked up this one as well; and have proposed also a suggestion for commenters.
When people comment on these blogs, they should look for a book that is neither bold nor italic, but which the blogger should consider reading. Then comment to indicate why it should be added to the list.
Here goes. [...pause...] Sorry; can't find any.
Agree with the Dan Brown books. I'm not exactly ashamed, though. I read the same two books as you did, and decided they were actually the same book. I've not read any more Dan Brown since then, as I suspect it would just be reading the same book for the third time.
Note that you've inherited an error from grrlscientist. She omitted "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" in the #67 spot. Suggest you both revise the post to remain consistent with everyone else.
My list (here) has a much more shameful admission. I've read "A Woman of Substance". I was stuck somewhere in bad weather, and with no other books available.
Posted by: Chris Ho-Stuart | May 20, 2007 1:11 AM
I see you have 'A prayer for Owen Meany' on your to read list.
I can only recommend this book! It is amongst the better of John Irvings books, and that is no small praise.
Posted by: Soren | May 20, 2007 2:24 AM
I don't have a blog, otherwise I'd be forced to admit to having read Kane and Abel. I was a teenager at the time.
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | May 20, 2007 3:44 AM
I thought I was very widely read but I have never even heard of many of the books on this list. As a logician and a historian of science I, of course, read The Da Vince Code and can't understand why anybody would want to read a second book by Dan Brown. I stopped reading novels about three years ago (I just lost interest!) but following Mr Ho-Stuart's suggestion I would recommend Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. This is not a general endorsement of Follett as I found several of his other books tedious but Pillars is, in my opininion, a very enjoyable popular historical novel.
Posted by: Thony C. | May 20, 2007 4:39 AM
Da Vince=Da Vinci!
Posted by: Thony C. | May 20, 2007 4:41 AM
Oh, Pillars of the Earth, yes! I haven't thought about that in years but I'd bump almost anything on this list for that instead (has the scientific community settled yet on the most elegant method for virtual meme revision?)
Posted by: JJ Ross | May 22, 2007 12:32 PM
Recommendation for The Poisonwood Bible. Don't let the fact that Oprah liked it put you off! Because....it's just a great story, told with passion.
Posted by: Eamon Knight | May 22, 2007 10:28 PM