101 Books to Read Before I Die...

So I had posted this in my old old old livejournal account.  I revisted it when a few of my FB friends were talking about good books/bad books.  Of course reading is a purely personal thing.  I read an old comment on the livejournal.  This chick was like HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE GREAT GATSBY.  I don't know.  I didn't.  I should probably re-read it, because sometimes revisiting things when you are a different age you might appreciate things differently.  I hated cranberries when I was in high school, now I love them. 

Crossed out means I've already read it. 

^_^ =Love It
:)  =Good
-_- =okay
*x*=Brain hemmorage

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien    ^_^
2. The Kite-Runner - Khaled Hosseini  :)  It was good but not awe inspiring like everone makes it. 
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  *X*  I know I'm going to hell, I can't read this book.  All I read is blah blah blah.4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee   *x*
5. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling    ^_^
6. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver   *x* Couldn't get through the first damn chapter.  augh.
7. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
8. LIfe of Pi - Yann Martel
9. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
10. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
11. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
12. Spud - John van de Ruit
13. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay  ^_^
14. The Hobbit -J.R.R. Tolkien    ^_^
15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
16. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte   Read it in college, but don't remember it.
18. The Catcer in the Rye - J.D. Salinger      *x*
19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte    ^_^
20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
23. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult ^_^  This book was good but had me sobbing.  It's been a long time since I've cried this much over a book.   The ending wasn't what I expected, but it was good.  24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
25. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
26. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
27. The Pillars of the EArth - Ken Follett
28. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell  ^_^29. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
30. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald    *x*
31. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
33. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
34. Atonement - Ian McEwan ^_^Very good.  Sad. 
35. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
36. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
37. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
38. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy  next library run
39. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
40. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
42. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
43. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
44. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
45. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
46. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel  *x*  Couldn't get into the book.  She couldn't convince me that the characters were real, which is hard since I read sci fi and fantasy normally.  Just an odd book.
47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
48. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery  I'm not sure... 
49. The Secret History - Donna Tartt  Boring if I don't get what's going on by the 6th chapter eh. 
50. Possession - A.S. Byatt *x*  couldn't finish.  Just blah. 
51. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
52. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
53. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
54. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
55. Q & A - Vikas Swarup
56. Dune - Frank Herbert    ^_^
57. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
58. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
59. River God - Wilbur Smith     ^_^
60. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
61. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
62. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis   ^_^
63. Mort - Terry Pratchett   ^_-  I'm indifferent about it.  Some parts good, but it was really hard to follow.  I think he has a very chaotic writing style. 
64. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky  reading now
65. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
66. East of Eden - John Steinbeck ^_^  Really Good Book. 
67. The Name of Rose - Umberto Eco
68. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
69. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
70. The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
71. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
72. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
73. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
74. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
75. Animal Farm - George Orwell    -_-
76. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
77. Watership Down - Richard Adams  ^_^  good book. 
78. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
79. Middlemarch - George Eliot
80. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
81. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
82. The Magus - John Fowles
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk
85. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
86. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
87. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
88. The Beach House - James Patterson
89. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
90. Kringe in 'n Bos - Dalene Matthee
91. The World According to Garp - John Irving
92. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
93. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
94. Shades - Marguerite Poland
95. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
96. Fiela se kind - Dalene Matthee
97. Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl  next library run
99. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
100. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe  ^_^  Defintely not a pick me upper.  Good book, always hated imperialism and how "whiteism" is better. 
101. Winnie the Pool - A.A. Milne  ^_^