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Thursday, November 11, 2010

126+ reasons to procrastinate

I've given up on sorting the book list. Alphabetically is the best I can do ... because I wanted to post it sometime tonight. I thought about pulling out the children's books. And the cookbooks. And the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary.

But really I love the mix of titles. The range of interests my friends have. You'll see some duplicates with my list. Some of my friends included the author's names. I thought that was helpful so I left them in. 

Of this list of 126 books/series I think I counted about 33 that I've read.

So my next reads? Hmmm. 

Interpreter of Maladies and Cellist of Sarajevo for sure. And I guess I'd better read the other two Stieg Larsson books since I finished Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Then we'll just have to see.
  1. 1984
  2. 9 Stories
  3. A Cure For Gravity (Joe Jackson)
  4. A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
  5. Advise and Consent (Allen Drury)
  6. All Quiet on the Western Front
  7. All The President's Men (Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward)
  8. Amityville Horror
  9. Andersonville
  10. Anne of Green Gables x 2
  11. Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robbins)
  12. Aunt Dimity Mysteries
  13. Awed to Heaven, Rooted to Earth (Walter Brueggemann)
  14. Ball's Blue Book of Canning
  15. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
  16. Bird by Bird
  17. Bobbsey Twins Series
  18. Brave New World
  19. Bridge to Terabithia x 2
  20. Cannery Row
  21. Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
  22. Cat's Eye (Margaret Atwood) 
  23. Catcher in the Rye
  24. Cellist of Sarajevo (Stephen Galloway) x 2
  25. Dakota (Kathleen Norris)
  26. Dangerous Wonder
  27. Dear Dumb Diary Series
  28. Dune (Frank Herbert)
  29. East of Eden
  30. Equus (Peter Schaffer)
  31. Evening Class
  32. Exodus (Leon Uris)
  33. Express Lane Cookbook
  34. Flatland (E. A. Abbott)
  35. Flowers for Algernon
  36. Freaky Friday
  37. Gone With The Wind x 3
  38. Hardy Boys Series
  39. Harriet the Spy
  40. Harry Potter Series x 4
  41. Having Our Say
  42. Henry's Sisters
  43. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
  44. Huckleberry Finn
  45. If Grace is True
  46. If You Give a Mouse A Cookie (Laura Numeroff)
  47. Interpreter of Maladies (Jumpa Lahiri)
  48. Jane Eyre
  49. Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)
  50. Johnny Tremain
  51. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  52. Kim (Rudyard Kipling?)
  53. Let Your Life Speak - Parker Palmer
  54. Little Women
  55. Living a Beautiful Life
  56. Lost Moon (Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger)
  57. Mark of the Lion Series (Francine Rivers)
  58. Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (Groucho Marx)
  59. Messy Spirituality
  60. Mistress of Mellyn
  61. Nancy Drew Series x 2
  62. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  63. One Man's Initiation: 1917 (John Dos Passos)
  64. Oxford Unabridged Dictionary
  65. Packing for Mars
  66. Pastcal's Wager
  67. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
  68. Programming Perl (Larry Wall & Randall L Schwartz)
  69. Riding the Bus with my Sister
  70. Roots (Alex Haley)
  71. Running with Scissors
  72. Savage Inequalities
  73. Selected Poems (Langston Hughes)
  74. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
  75. Seventh Scroll
  76. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
  77. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
  78. Stuart Little  (E.B. White)
  79. Summer of My German Soldier
  80. The Artist's Way
  81. The Bible  x 4
  82. The Book of Ruth (Jane Hamilton)
  83. The Bourne Identity
  84. The Catcher in the Rye
  85. The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
  86. The Enchanted Broccoli Forest
  87. The Farm Journal Cookbook
  88. The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) x 2
  89. The God Particle (Leon Lederman)
  90. The Godbearing Life (Kenda Creasy Dean)
  91. The Grapes of Wrath

  92. The Great Gatsby
  93. The Help
  94. The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
  95. The Hobbit
  96. The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
  97. The Lord of the Flies x 2
  98. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
  99. The Scarlet Pimpernel
  100. The Shining
  101. The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
  102. The Soul of Politics (Jim Wallis)
  103. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
  104. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  105. The Stephanie Plum Series (Janet Evanovich)
  106. The Teddy Bear Habit
  107. The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)
  108. The Water Is Wide (Pat Conroy)
  109. The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
  110. The Year of Living Biblically
  111. Three Cups of Tea
  112. To Bathe A Boa (C. Imbior Kudrna)
  113. To Infinity and Beyond (Eli Maor)
  114. To Kill a Mockingbird x 3
  115. Trixie Belden Series
  116. Unchristian
  117. Ursula Under x 2
  118. Vanity Fair (William M. Thackeray)
  119. Watership Down
  120. Where the Wild Things Are
  121. Why Christian (Douglas John Hall)
  122. Wizard's First Rule Series (Terry Goodkind)
  123. Working With Emotional Intelligence
  124. Yellow Book of Fairy Tales
  125. Yosemite and the Range of Light (Ansel Adams)
  126. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig x 2


3 comments:

  1. This is great! I've read 55 of these, so I guess I only have 71 reasons to procrastinate, but lots of new ideas!

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  2. Just a warning: Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt is a melodramatic romance with predictable turns at every ... well ... turn. I listed it because it was a book I just happened on in my junior high library to read for a class. I had no expectations. Then I loved it. And it started me reading in a whole new way, ravenous. Good for a 13-year-old, but it's not necessarily a book I'd read now.

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  3. FYI ... Authors for 15
    1. Freaky Friday (Mary Rodgers)
    2. Mistress of Mellyn (Victoria Holt)
    3. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
    4. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
    5. The Teddy Bear Habit (James Lincoln Collier)
    6. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
    7. The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
    8. Packing for Mars (Mary Roach)
    9. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
    10. Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)
    11. The Year of Living Biblically (A.J. Jacobs)
    12. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
    13. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
    14. Express Lane Cookbook (Sarah Fritschner)
    15. Dear Dumb Diary series (Jim Benton)

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