I Love A Good List

This blog is stealing a page from another blog I follow.  I'm about to share with you a list from the Listopia section of Goodreads.

Have I mentioned how much I love Goodreads?  It's my couch potato equivalent of going to the bookstore.  Don't get me wrong, nothing could compare with actually being inside a bookstore, but when I can't leave home, Goodreads it is!

Goodreads holds my lists of what I've read and what I want to read.  That "want to read" list grows exponentially faster than the "read" list, but I push on.  Other features that I adore are the "giveaway" books.  There are literally hundreds of books being given away by the authors and publishers.  I've won a few in my time. It's fun. Who can resist a free book?  Then there is the Listopia feature.

You would think that loving to read as much as I do and having hundreds of unread books right here in my home that I would have a "next in line" stack of books that I automatically pick the next one from.  Not so.  I never know what kind of book I'm going to want to read next so I don't even try.  But  Listopia has every kind of list imaginable and it's an awesome way to discover what's next.

It's also a place to find if I measure up.  Okay, I admit it - I have no idea who's standard I am measuring up to or why I even care, but it's kind of fun.  I suspect that this list of 100 Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once is a compilation made by popular vote.  Let's see how I fare.

Again, drawing my inspiration from that other blogger, I will draw a line through the books I have read.  An asterisk indicates it's on my "want to read" list.

 100 Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once (according to Goodreads Listopia)

1. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
2.  1984 by George Orwell
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (I have no intention of ever reading this)
   
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*
9. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
11. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte*
13. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
14. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (I have no intention of ever reading this)
    
15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding* (This was assigned reading in HS but I don't think I ever finished it.  I want to go back and read it)
    
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
17. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
18. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
19. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
20. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
22. The Giver by Lois Lowry
23. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (I probably have read at least Wonderland)
    
25. Night by Elie Wiesel
26. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
27. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte*
29. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
30. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell*
31. Holy Bible: King James Version
32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (I'm sure we read at least parts of this in school)
    
33. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde*
35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
36. Brave New World/Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
37. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
38. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (I have no intention of ever reading this)
    
39. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
40. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
41. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
42. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
43. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
44. The Odyssey by Homer
45. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
46. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
47. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
48. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
49. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
50. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
51. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (I'm sure we read at least parts of this in school)
    
52. Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
53. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck*
54. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery*
55. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
56. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens*
57. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.Milne (I still have my mother's book given to her in 1927)
    
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
59. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
61. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini*
62. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
63. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
64. Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
65. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
66. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
67. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
68. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
69. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne*
70. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
71. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
72. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
73. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
74. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.Tolkien (I have no intention of ever reading this)
    
75. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
76. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
77. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
78. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
79. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
80. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
81. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
82. The Little House Collection (1-9) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
83. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
84. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith*
85. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
86. The Stranger by Albert Camus
87. The Book of Mormon: Another testament of Jesus Christ by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
88. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
89. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
90. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
91. The Stand by Stephen King
92. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
93. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
94. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver*
95. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
96. The Quran
97. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
98. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
99. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom*
100. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Now that I've copied the first 100 books of this list onto my blog I see that it was created in 2008. Not that it matters as it appears that it's being added to and voted on still to date.   

36 of 100 is my count of the books I have read.  18 more are already on my list of "to read."  You may have noticed that I marked a couple as NEVER!  This is because I've tried to read Tolkien and just couldn't get into it.  And Les Miserables?  Not a chance.  There are definitely others that I'm sure will never be on my list but those just are so far off the radar for me, I had to note it.