Musing Mondays: Lists Lists Lists

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?

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

1. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
4. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
5. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
6. Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
7. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
8. Book Thief – Markus Zusak
9. 1984 – George Orwell
10. Magician – Raymond E Feist
11. Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
12. Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simmons
13. Shantaram: A Novel – Gregory David Roberts
14. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
15. Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
16. The Davinci Code – Dan Brown
17. Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
18. Alchemist – Coelho
19. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
20. Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
21. Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
22. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
23. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
24. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
25. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
26. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
27. Holy Bible (working on it)
    
28. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
29. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
30. Fortunate Life – AB Facey
31. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
32. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
33. Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaladon
34. Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
35. Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
36. Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
37. Tomorrow, When The War Began – John Marsden
38. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
39. Dune – Frank Herbert
40. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (sort of. I gave up on it)
    
41. Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. April Fool’s Day – Bryce Courtenay
44. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
45. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
46. Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
47. Shadow of the Wind – Ruiz Zaf
48. Briefer History of Time – by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
49. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
50. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
51. Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
52. Persuasion – Jane Austen
53. Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
54. Atonement – Ian McEwan
55. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
56. Animal Farm – George Orwell
57. Clockwork Orange: Play With Music – Anthony Burgess
58. Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
59. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
60. Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
61. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Really Short History of Everything – Bill Bryson
63. Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
64. Lion Called Christian – Anthony Bourke
65. God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
66. Tully – Paullina Simons
67. Time to Kill – John Grisham
68. Marley & Me – John Grogan
69. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
70. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
71. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
72. Road – Cormac McCarthy
73. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
74. In Turkey I am Beautiful – Brendan Shanahan
75. Breath – Tim Winton
76. Jessica – Bryce Courtenay
77. Animalia – Graeme Base
78. Secret History – Donna Tartt
79. Godfather – Mario Puzo
80. Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
81. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
82. Stand – Stephen King
83. Bridget Jones Diary – Helen Fielding
84. New Earth: Create A Better Life – Eckhart Tolle
85. Seven Ancient Wonders – Matthew Reilly
86. Wild Swans: Three Daughts of China – Jung Chang
87. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
88. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
89. The Belgariad – David Eddings
90. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
91. Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
92. PS I Love You – Celia Ahern
93. Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
94. Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
95. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
97. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
98. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
99. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
100. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

 26 out of 100. Looks like I need to get reading ;)