Tuesday, November 27, 2007

My List of 101 Books

  1. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
  2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)
  3. A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)
  4. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
  5. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
  6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
  7. Anil's Ghost (Michael Ondastja)
  8. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
  9. American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
  10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Silje)
  11. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
  12. Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
  13. Cradle and All (James Patterson)
  14. Cruel and Unusual (Patricia Cornwell)
  15. Dead Sleep (Greg Iles)
  16. Decipher (Stel Pavlou)
  17. Dreams of my Russian Summers (Andrei Makine)
  18. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel In Letters (Mark Dunn)
  19. Evolutionary Wars (Charles Levy)
  20. Falling Leaves (Adeline Yen Mah)
  21. Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
  22. Freakonomics (Levitt & Dubner)
  23. Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry)
  24. Gods In Alabama (Joshilyn Jackson)
  25. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
  26. I, Mona Lisa (Jeanne Kalogridis)
  27. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
  28. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Deborah Rodriquez)
  29. Koko (Peter Straub)
  30. La Magdalena (William Valtos)
  31. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)
  32. Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Equivel)
  33. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Richard E. Kim)
  34. Lucky (Alice Sebold)
  35. Magic Study (Maria Snyder)
  36. Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
  37. Messenger (Lois Lowry)
  38. Middlesex (JeffreyEugenides)
  39. Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
  40. Parasite Rex (Carl Zimmer)
  41. Peony in Love (Lisa See)
  42. Pig Island (Mo Hayden)
  43. Prentice Alvin (Orson Scott Card)
  44. Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
  45. Queen Bees & Wannabes (Rosalind Wiseman)
  46. Quincunx (Charles Palliser)
  47. Red Prophet (Tales of the Alvin Maker II)
  48. Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)
  49. Seventh Son (Tales of the Alvin Maker I) (Orson Scott Card)
  50. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood (Julie Gregory)
  51. Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
  52. So Many Books, So Little Time (Sara Nelson)
  53. Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
  54. Soul Mountain (Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee)
  55. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marci Pessle)
  56. Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
  57. Sula (Toni Morrison)
  58. The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
  59. The $64 Tomato (William Alexander)
  60. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
  61. The Blood of Flowers (Anita Amirrezvani)
  62. The Book of Ruth (Jane Hamilton)
  63. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Boyne)
  64. The Brief History of the Dead (Kevin Brockmeier)
  65. The Burn Journals (Brent Runyon)
  66. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Mark Haddon)
  67. The Family That Couldn't Sleep (D. T. Max)
  68. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
  69. The Gallery of Regrettable Food (James Lileks)
  70. The Glass Castle (Jeannete Walls)
  71. The Girls (Lori Lansens)
  72. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
  73. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
  74. The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
  75. The Inheritance (Louisa May Alcott)
  76. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Brady Udall)
  77. The Rasputin Relic (William Valtos)
  78. The Reckoning (Thomas Monteleone) aka The Blood of the Lamb
  79. The Republican War on Science (Chris Mooney)
  80. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafron)
  81. The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
  82. The Silver Rose (Susan Carroll)
  83. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
  84. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
  85. The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
  86. The World According to Garp (John Irving) DNF
  87. Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)
  88. Veil of Roses (Laura Fitzgerald)
  89. Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)
  90. We Were The Mulvaney's (Joyce Carol Oates)
  91. When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra (Colin Falconer)
  92. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
  93. Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)
  94. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

DNF = Did Not Finish

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