Meme, and HEY LOOK A JOB.

[elsajeni]

Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read in the future, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and leave the rest alone -- some of those left unmarked I haven't heard of, others I just have no particular interest in.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) (I'm reading this right now! Honest! It's great except for all the fucking conversation in French!)

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) (Unique in being both bold and strikethroughed. Struckthrough?)

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 Bronte)

28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

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) (Alas, there is no special formatting to indicate "I read about a page and a half of this and GOOD LORD I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING COULD SUCK THAT HARD WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING A BLACK HOLE.")

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)

41. The Clan 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. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)

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)

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 (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

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)

67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo) (I don't have any special interest in reading this, but on the other hand, I see here on Wikipedia that one of Hugo's other works sparked a somewhat peculiar SQUID FRENZY in France, where for quite some time everyone went around going WOW SQUID THEY ARE SO AWESOME, so maybe I'll give him a try.)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)

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)

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Tery Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen)

86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous 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)

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) (I went through a couple of years in junior high and high school where I thought this was CLEARLY THE BEST BOOK EVER HOLY CRAP. I got over it, but I still like it an awful lot. Unfortunately, I gave my copy, which I liked a lot -- it was just the right size and had good cover art -- away to someone who I now have no contact with, and who I doubt ever read the damn thing anyway, and I can't find another equally-good copy.)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Of those 100, assuming I can count:
I have read 32, and am currently reading a 33rd. (I've also read parts of some others, but mostly ones that are strikethroughed/struckthrough.)
I have some interest in reading 15 others.
I have purchased (or received as gifts), with intent to read, but have not actually read, 6, one of which I am currently reading and two of which I later lost all interest in.
I have dismissed 10 as not worth my time and/or the effort.

Overall, I'd call that a decent record.


In other, completely unrelated, news (well, okay, they are bookstores, but that's a fairly tenuous relationship), after long ages of going "ARGH WHY WILL NO ONE PAY ME MONEY TO DO STUFF", I now have two Borders locations offering me interviews. Hopefully they will end up sending champions to duel over which one gets me.