Book, books, books

I saw this meme done on bubandpie


It's a list of top 100 books as voted by the general public. I've put in bold the books I've read and put a star beside books I've read more than once. Well, here goes....
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) fun read-but I cannot believe it's in the number one spot, it wasn't that great, and even though I'm a practising Catholic, I wasn't offended by it and just read it for what it was, a work of fiction.
2. Pride and Prejudice* (Jane Austen)-it is my favourite book of all time, I read it at least once every year, cannot believe Da Vinci Code was ahead of it....what's going on??!!
3. To Kill A Mockingbird *(Harper Lee) Wonderfully written, great characters.
4. Gone With The Wind * (Margaret Mitchell)-what can I say, I'm a sucker for the romance, history and the outrageous behaviour of Scarlet.
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)-had no interest to read the whole trilogy.
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)-classic story, can't wait until my daughter reads it. 9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) -it's on my book list.
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) -hooked from the first book, countless late nights reading to finish them.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)-really enjoyed Cider House Rules, wonder why it didn't make the list?
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) -interesting read, still wondering how in the hell a white American guy could get all the info about a geisha, how much is accurate?
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)-cannot read any of his novels, too scary, gives me nightmares!
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre* (Charlotte Bronte) excellent
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye *(J.D. Salinger)-read it in Grade 10 English class, loved it.
23. Little Women *(Louisa May Alcott)-loved, loved, loved it, yet another book to share with my daughter.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) -wonderful imagery and use of language.
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) -read it for the first time when I was a Mom and read it to my daughter, we both loved it.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)-I'm a hopeless romantic, I loved it, it made me weep.
33. Atlas Shrugged* (Ayn Rand)-read it twice back to back, I knew I was missing things the first time.
34. 1984* (Orwell)-read it in Grade 11 English, loved it, so dark and frightening, the last scene is my biggest fear realized.
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) My sister loves this one
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)-fascinating, what a time to be alive and a woman.
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)-brilliant and totally absorbing.
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)-had me roaring with laughter from the first page, loved the correspondence with her bank.
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom
45. The Bible-just bits and pieces, yeah, I know....and I say I'm a practising Catholic.
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) great story, everyone from the same family has a different perspective and opinion on events that occurred.
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)-just okay.
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities *(Dickens) Grade 9 English, loved it.
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby* (Fitzgerald)-Grade 10 English, such an interesting time in history.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)-Grade 9 English, can't get more Canadian than this.
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)-read it after I saw the miniseries, loved them both.
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) -liked The Edible Woman much better.
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)-read it in high school, loved it, it was so different from the novels I had read up to that point.
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)-no chance that I'm ever going to read this one. I remember the Cheers episode where Sam reads it, it takes him weeks....only to have Diane dismiss it with scorn as being too over-rated, or words to that effect, hilarious!
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business *(Robertson Davis)-okay, I see a pattern emerging, another English class book-loved it, love Robertson Davies-a truly brilliant author.
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), it took me a while but I finished it, didn't love it, it was okay.
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary* (Fielding) So hilarious, definitely one of my favorites!
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)-loved reading it again with my daughter, she really enjoyed trying to decipher the English accent of some of the characters.
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)-wow, I haven't thought about this book in ages, I loved it when I read it.
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web* (E.B. White), so wonderful and lovely.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca *(Daphne DuMaurier)-another one that I haven't read in a while, that's going on my book list.
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)-liked Mansfield Park much better.
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)-truly brilliant and wonderful.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)-went through a spy/thriller phase in university, great read! loved the movie with Matt Damon.
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)-it made quite an impact on me, loved it.
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)-could only get through a few chapters...
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

The majority of the books were read before I had children....when I still had time to actually read. Another thing I noticed, this must be a Canadian list as there are so many Canadian authors on it.

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As there are a lot of Canadian authors in this list, please feel free to make substitutions.