Reading

I got this list from a blog called Jen and Tonic, she got it from another blog.
Looked interesting so I thought I'd give it a try. I do wonder how they came up with this particular list of books, was it random or is this what someone's bookshelf looks like?
I discovered that I have read a lot of classics (Dickens, Austen etc.) that I could not read now if you paid me...well, maybe if you paid me...

"Instructions: In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of. "
Since I can't figure out how to cross out I have shoved the ones I know I don't want to read over to the right, and the ones I am unsure about I have left alone.

1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Didn't enjoy as much as I'd hoped
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Boring
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) All time fave - have read SO many times
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Preferred the movie
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) Long time ago
9. +Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) Read the whole series - fave
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) Have enjoyed all of them so far
12. +Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Recommended by an ex-boyfriend, maybe won't bother!
13. +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. +A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Fave
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) Really want to read
16. +Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) Yuck. Nightmares
19. +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Long time ago
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) Long time ago, will re-read one day
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Enjoyed
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Long time ago
24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. + Life of Pi (Yann Martel) This is in my pile to read next
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Blagh
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Boring
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Childhood fave
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) Really enjoyed
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. +The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) Also read the sequel, Tandia
38. +I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb) Fave fave fave, I love this man's books
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. +The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Read the whole series. HATED the movie
42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. *Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) Sounds like something I should read!
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. +Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Long read but a fave
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) Fave
51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) Read in school, don't like Dickens
53. *Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Read in school
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) Slow going read
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. +War and Peace (Tolstoy) Took forever but I did it
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) Blagh
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. +One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Fave
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Read a long time ago
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. +Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) Enjoyed the book more than the movie!
72. +Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) Think I may have read, my parents had it
74. +The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) Loved the movie too
75. +The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Lovely book
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. +The World According To Garp (John Irving) Fave
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Read a long time ago
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) A long time ago
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) A long time ago
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen) Read a long time ago - couldn't read it now
86. +Watership Down(Richard Adams) Fave
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) Fave
97. +White Oleander (Janet Fitch) Great book
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield) Didn't enjoy as much as I'd hoped
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)