Book List

according to the BBC, most people will have only read 6 of the following 100 books listed. So I found this book list on a blog and now I don't remember which.. but apparently, according to BBC, most people have only read 6 of the 100 books. I've read 15 (the bolded ones) but my goal is to read a lot more of them!

okay. number 1 is missing.. i'll try to recover it haha.

2. the lord of the rings – JRR tolkien


3. jane eyre – charlotte bronte


4. harry potter series – JK rowling


5. to kill a mockingbird – harper lee


6. the bible (mostly)

7. wuthering heights – emily bronte *

8. nineteen eighty four – george orwell


9. his dark materials – philip pullman


10. great expectations – charles dickens


11. little women – louisa m. alcott *


12. tess of the d’urbervilles – thomas hardy


13. catch 22 – joseph heller


14. complete works of shakespeare


15. rebecca – daphne du maurier


16. the hobbit – JRR tolkien


17. birdsong – sebastian faulk


18. catcher in the rye – JD salinger


19. the time traveler’s wife – audrey niffenegger


20. middlemarch – george eliot


21. gone with the wind - margaret mitchell


22 the great gatsby - F scott fitzgerald*


24. war and peace - leo tolstoy


25. the hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy – douglas adams


26. the road – cormac mccarthy


27. crime and punishment - fyodor dostoyevsky


28. grapes of wrath - john steinbeck


29. alice in wonderland - lewis carroll *


30. the wind in the willows - kenneth grahame


31. anna karenina – leo tolstoy *


32. david copperfield - charles dickens


33. chronicles of narnia - CS lewis


34. emma – jane austen *


35. persuasion – jane austen


36. the lion, the witch and the wardrobe - CS lewis


37. the kite runner - khaled hosseini *


38. captain corelli’s mandolin – louis de bernieres


39. memoirs of a geisha – arthur golden


40. winnie the pooh – A.A. milne


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


47. far from the madding crowd – thomas hardy


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


55. a suitable boy – vikram seth


56. the shadow of the wind – carlos ruiz zafon


57. a tale of two cities - charles dickens


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*


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


71. oliver twist - charles dickens


72. dracula – bram stoker


73. 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


81. 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


87. charlotte’s web – E.B. white


88. 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


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


99. charlie and the chocolate factory – roald dahl *


100. les miserables – victor hugo*

* Books I reaallly want to read ASAP as possible.

So there it is. I'm going to be a busy little girl:)

Well, the term ends tomorrow. Sing praises. This term has been a beast. I'm ready to crawl in a hole with my books and music never to emerge. That is no exaggeration. Nothing, I repeat nothing is going right lately. I'm just really frustrated and ready to go on a vacation. Get away from it all. I'm doing the right things. Why can't it just work out? I'm done. I want to go to college and start fresh so I can finally be myself and stop pretending.

Also, I just want to do the right things. This is all going to sound dumb but I don't care. Last night when I was praying I got the sudden urge to pray for my future husband. I don't know why.. But I did. While I was praying for him I got the most overpowering surge of love for him. It was weird. I don't even know him, but I hope he knows that I already love him and I hope he's making good choices. Conversely, I hope I'm living worthy of him. I know how bizarre that sounds and trust me, its bizarre, but whatever.

Honestly though, I'm so ready for this year to be over. I'm anxious for officer tryouts in 2 weeks and I hope I make it because if I do, I'll be able to get through the rest of this school year.

In other news, I went to an engineering competition at the University of Utah on tuesday and our team took 3rd in state! really though, that's impressive because it was our school's first year entering and all the other teams have been doing the JETS/TEAMS competition for years. But here's the slight disappointment- there was only 1 point difference between second and third and first and second place teams get scholarships to the U. One point and I could have had a scholarship already to the U. Oh well, we've still got next year! It was a way good experience so that's a bonus.

Well I'm going to go eat dinner.. maybe I'll be back later

mechale lauren