Musing Mondays from Rebecca at Just One More Page
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about books on your top book lists…
This past week, Borders re-released it’s 100 Favourite Books of All Times. Do you vote in these kinds of polls when they arise? Do you look through the list, or seek out books featured?
This past week, Borders re-released it’s 100 Favourite Books of All Times. Do you vote in these kinds of polls when they arise? Do you look through the list, or seek out books featured?
Well I am a sucker for lists. I love them. I especially love lists of books because they give me ideas on what to read. When I can I vote in the lists (not like my friend S who likes to stuff ballots :D). And since I am a sucker for lists here is the borders list complete with which books I have read in bold (and reviews when I have done them) and the ones I want to read are in italics.
100 Favourite Books of All Times
- Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
- Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Magician – Raymond E Feist
- Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simmons
- Shantaram: A Novel – Gregory David Roberts
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
- The Davinci Code – Dan Brown
- Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
- Alchemist – Coelho
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
- Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Holy Bible (working on it)
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Fortunate Life – AB Facey
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaladon
- Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
- Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
- Tomorrow, When The War Began – John Marsden
- Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (sort of. I gave up on it)
- Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- April Fool’s Day – Bryce Courtenay
- Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
- Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
- Shadow of the Wind – Ruiz Zaf
- Briefer History of Time – by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- Eragon – Christopher Paolini
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Clockwork Orange: Play With Music – Anthony Burgess
- Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Really Short History of Everything – Bill Bryson
- Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Lion Called Christian – Anthony Bourke
- God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Tully – Paullina Simons
- Time to Kill – John Grisham
- Marley & Me – John Grogan
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- In Turkey I am Beautiful – Brendan Shanahan
- Breath – Tim Winton
- Jessica – Bryce Courtenay
- Animalia – Graeme Base
- Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Godfather – Mario Puzo
- Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- Stand – Stephen King
- Bridget Jones Diary – Helen Fielding
- New Earth: Create A Better Life – Eckhart Tolle
- Seven Ancient Wonders – Matthew Reilly
- Wild Swans: Three Daughts of China – Jung Chang
- The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- The Belgariad – David Eddings
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
- PS I Love You – Celia Ahern
- Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
- Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris
- The Princess Bride – William Goldman
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
3 comments:
I haven't read very many on the list.
Personally, this is not my favorite "best of" list. a number of books of questionable quality ..did someone say Dan Brown?..and a lot I never heard of, which is odd.
What worries me is the number of thee I haven't even heard of:)
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