100 Reads

Now that I am done with school, it is time to restart reading for fun.  Ya know, the part of life where instead of reading pages and volumes assigned by virtual strangers, you read pages and volumes you find interesting, enlightening, funny, heartbreaking, or whatever your litmus test is for a good book.  Taking public transportation to and from work has been a wonderful jump start back in to reading every day, but I get sort of panicked when I am close to the end of a book because... what will I read next?!

Found this list of 100 user-voted must reads and I am going to page-turn through the volumes.  A literary adventure awaits!

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
  8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  9. Night by Elie Wiesel
  10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  12. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  13. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  15. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  16. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  18. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  21. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  22. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  23. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  24. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  25. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  26. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  27. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  28. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys
  29. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  31. The Scarlett Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
  32. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  33. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  34. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  35. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  36. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  37. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  38. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  39. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  40. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  41. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  42. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
  43. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  44. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  45. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  46. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (started November 25, 2010- completed December 22, 2010)
  47. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  48. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  49. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  50. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  51. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  52. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  53. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  54. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
  55. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (completed February 3, 2011)
  56. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  57. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  58. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (started February 27, 2011- completed March 6, 2011)
  60. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  61. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  62. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  63. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  64. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  65. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  66. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  67. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  68. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  69. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  70. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
  71. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
  72. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  73. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  74. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  75. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  76. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  77. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  78. Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
  79. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  80. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  81. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  82. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
  83. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  84. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  85. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  86. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama XIV
  87. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  88. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  89. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  90. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  91. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  92. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
  93. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  94. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
  95. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
  96. The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
  97. Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  98. Columbine by Dave Cullen
  99. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
  100. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know-- And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero
I have read 29 of the books on the list (indicated by a strikethrough).  I am currently reading a fabulous book that I was shocked didn't make it to this list: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  After that is done I may just get started on this little project.
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