This will be a perma-list of the books I’ve read, with links to each book I’ve reviewed. Suggestions are always welcome!
2012
Goal: 20 books. I’m already way behind!
Suggestions I haven’t gotten to yet:
-The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind–William Kamkwanda
-Reading Lolita in Tehran
-BBC’s List of Classics
2011
Goal: 45 books
Read: 36 books
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Almost Perfect (Book 1, Perfect Trilogy), Julie Ortolon
- A Taylor-Made Bride, Karen Witemeyer
- Black Water Rising, Attica Locke
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Closing Costs, Seth Margolis
- Colter’s Wife, Maya Banks
- Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch, B.J. Daniels
- Dating Mr. December, Phillipa Ashley
- Destiny by Design, Wylie Kinson
- Enemies and Playmates, Darcia Helle
- His Lady Mistress, Elizabeth Rolls
- Husband-Coached Childbirth, Robert A. Bradley
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin
- Irresistible Forces, Brenda Jackson
- Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo, Heather Wardell
- Life’s a Beach, Claire Cook
- Masks, Evangeline Anderson
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
- My Life in France, Julia Child
- Private Games, Tawny Taylor
- SEALed with a Kiss, Mary Daughtridge
- Seducing Jane Porter, Dominique Adair
- Shattered: A Daughter’s Regret, Melody Carlson
- Slow Ride: A Rough Riders Story, Lorelei James
- Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May Gaskin
- Stolen Hearts, Karen Erickson
- The Coffee Trader, David Liss
- The Dead Saint, Marilyn Brown Oden
- The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- The Next Big Thing, Madelle Morgan
- The Secret Holocaust Diaries, Nonna Bannister, Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin
- Walking on Broken Glass, Christa Allan
- Wings, Aprilynne Pike
2010
- 101 Ways to Have a Great Day at Work
- Dreamcatcher–Stephen King
- Getting Things Done–David Allen
- Shutter Island–Dennis Lehane
- The Secret Life of Bees–Sue Monk Kidd
- A Good Year–Peter Mayle
- The Girl Who Played with Fire–Steig Larsson
- Without Reservations–Alice Steinbach
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle–Barbara Kingsolver
- A Hope in the Unseen–Ron Suskind
- A Lesson Before Dying–Ernest J. Gaines
- Kristin Lavransdatter–Sigrid Undset
- The Last Summer (of You and Me)–Ann Brashares
- Without a Map–Meredith Hall
- The Handmaid’s Tale–Margaret Atwood
- A Fine Balance–Rohinton Mistry
- Love the One You’re With–Emily Giffin
- Like Water for Chocolate–Laura Esquirrel
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World–John Wood
- Under the Dome–Stephen King
- Julie & Julia–Julie Powell
- Love in the Time of Cholera–Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Eat Pray Love–Elizabeth Gilbert
- Born to Run–Christopher McDougall
- Fractured–Karin Slaughter
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo–Steig Larsson
- Atonement–Ian McEwan
- Eating Animals–Jonathan Safran Foer
- A Great Deliverance–Elizabeth George
- The Lost Symbol–Dan Brown
- The Big 5-Oh!– Sandra Bricker
- Deceit: A Novel–Brandilyn Collins
- Marked–Elisabeth Naughton
- The Bride’s Baby–Liz Fielding
- Slow Hands–Leslie Kelly
- Compromising Positions–Jenna Bayley-Burke
- A Reliable Wife–Robert Goolrick
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination–Elizabeth McCracken
- The Help–Kathryn Stockett
- Hide in Plain Sight–Marta Perry
- Dancing in the Moonlight–RaeAnne Thayne
- Baby Bonanza–Maureen Child
- A Very Special Delivery–Linda Goodnight
- One Hit Wonder–Charlie Carillo
- Guns Will Keep Us Together–Leslie Langtry
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference–Malcolm Gladwell
BBC’s List of Classics That Everyone Should Read
Key:
Read
Not Read
Own
Review Linked
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (Kindle)
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (Print)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Kindle)
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (Print)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Kindle)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) – Philip Pullman (Print)
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (Kindle)
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (Kindle)
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Print)
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (Print)
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot (Kindle)
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (Kindle)
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (Print)
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Kindle)
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (Kindle, reading now)
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (Kindle)
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (Print & Kindle)
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
33. Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician’s Nephew; The Last Battle) – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen (Kindle)
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen (Kindle)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (see 33)
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (Print)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (Kindle)
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (Kindle)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (Kindle)
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (Kindle)
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (Kindle)
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville (Kindle)
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker (Kindle)
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Kindle)
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce (Kindle)
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zol
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (Kindle)
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (Kindle)
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (Kindle)
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Kindle)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection (The Magic Faraway Tree; The Folk of the Faraway Tree; The Enchanted Wood)- Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (Kindle)
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare (Print, see 14)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (Kindle)
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