Got Book?

Ok, so this certainly wasn't my blog idea today, but I found it so inspiring when the boys and I sat down and started talking about it, that I had to utilize it here rather than on my Facebook notes as the instructions state. So Snowflake, my dear friend, thank you for giving me a topic that forced me to delve into the files in my mind. And when I came up short, I looked to my kids who reminded me what "WE" have read over the years in this house....and personally ANY topic that gets TEENAGERS talking to us that isn't video game related (LOL) I believe is a GREAT TOPIC. SO here we go.....

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read (some are series, so list which volumes you've read). Tag other Book Nerds.

So as I found myself scrolling my minds memories, I realized that there are SO MANY more that I would add to this list that I BELIEVE everyone should read.

How about:

Mya Angelou’s- I know why the caged bird sings

James Baldwin’s- Notes of a Native son

Flann O’brien’s- At swim two birds

Nathaniel Hawthorn’s- The scarlet Letter

Samuel Clemens’- Mark Twain

Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote

Alexandre Dumas- Man in an Iron Mask

Author Unknown- Beowulf

I know there are TONS more, but I can’t think of them right now darn it. Maybe we should start our own list LOL and see where we could go together.

Note: This isn't a contest! Just a cool way to see what your friends have been up to. So please feel free to add a book you think should be on here, or any comments you have. In this busy world we live in, I think LOTS of times we FORGET that there is a HUGE literary world out there waiting to "feed our minds."

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [X]
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [X]
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [X]
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [X]
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [X]
6. The Bible [x]
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte[x]
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [X]
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [X]
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [X] Not *all*, but enough to hold a conversation
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [X]
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [X]
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky[X]
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [X]
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [X]
34. Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [X]
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [X]
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [X]
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [X]
41. 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
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x]
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [X]
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 [X]
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
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 [X]
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce [X]
76. The Inferno – Dante [x]
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [X]
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker[X]
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White [X]
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [X]
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad[X]
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams[x]
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas[x]
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare [X]
99.Charlie & the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl [X]
100.Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [X]