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Currently reading The Three Musketeers...so far it has been alright...not all of the books on the list have been as exciting as I had hoped.
Finished The Three Musketeers! It really picked up in the second half for me. I gave it 3 stars. I now plan on reading A Town Like Alice and the Faraway Tree Collection. 37/100
I loved A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute is an excellent author.
Thanks Janet! I enjoyed the story of A Town Like Alice...I gave it 4 stars. I found it a nice change of pace from some of the other books I had been reading. I am now going to give A Confederacy of Dunces a try...the reviews seem to be very mixed.
Jackie wrote: "Thanks Janet! I enjoyed the story of A Town Like Alice...I gave it 4 stars. I found it a nice change of pace from some of the other books I had been reading. I am now going to give A Confederacy of..."It was ok. Not my favorite book but I really enjoyed all the references to New Orleans. I could picture all the places in my head.
Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces...I was pleasantly surprised!!! I liked the writing and the characters...it even made me chuckle a couple of times. 39/100
Just completed Heart of Darkness...it was a struggle for me. I am glad it was a short read...unfortunately I could not get into it. I am now on the last book of The Faraway Tree Collection. 40/100
All done with The Faraway Tree Collection...I feel like something was amiss for me reading them as an adult. I just didn't see the magic in them as many others have. 41/100
I read The Wasp Factory a little while ago...I feel slightly unhinged for liking it. I think I would appreciate it more with a second read but I doubt I will ever be able to bring myself to read it again. I have moved on the The Lord of the Rings and Wind in the Willows. 42/100
Done - The Wind in the Willows (3 stars) and "book 1" of Lord of the Rings (4 stars). Need 1 more book before the new year to reach my 2015 goal :) 43/100
Lord of the Rings - Done! I really enjoyed the plot but it was starting to feel long towards the end. I am excited to watch the movies now... 44/100
Was having trouble getting in...over the last couple of months I have read:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-3 stars
Watership Down-3 stars
Tess of the D'Urbervilles-5 stars
47/100
Done 'Madame Bovary' ... I enjoyed it more than I was expecting, I gave it 4 stars. Moving onto Birdsong...
48/100
Birdsong is done, I liked it. I am now onto Alice in Wonderland. 49/50
Alice in Wonderland was cute, quick read. I gave it 3 stars. 50/100
Just finished Rebecca, I really enjoyed it. It was a nice change of pace, I rated it 4 stars. Not sure what is next up for me... 51/100
Took a break to re-read the Harry Potter series. I have decided to go with Middlemarch as my next book from this list 🙂
Yikes, I feel like I am on a downward spiral...took me ages to get through Middlemarch. I can't even remember what happens but I saw that I rated it 1 star so that usually means I did not like the ending. Next I went with Oliver Twist thinking I was for sure going to like it but it was a lot darker then I was expecting. So to lighten the mood I chose Notes from a Small Island...GAH...I don't like his sense of humour nor find his opinions interesting :( I am over 20% done and this is the first book of my adult life where I have decided it is not worth finishing... Up next I am going to try Dracula and I have no expectations so hopefully that works in my favour.
54/100
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
X3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
X4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
X5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
X6. The Bible
X7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
X8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
X9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
X10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
X11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
X13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
X14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
X16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
X18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
X19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
X22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
X25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
X33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma -Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
X36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
X39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
X41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
X46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
X49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
X51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
X58. 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
X61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
X64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
X68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
X73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Inferno – Dante
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
X81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
X87. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
X88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
X92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)
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
X98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
X99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
X100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
36/100