100 Books

Published Sun, Oct 10 2004 18:08 | William

I found this on Andy's blog blog who

“...found this list over on  Natalie's Biz's blog  : “

those you've read - Y
started-but-never-finished - NF
haven't read - N

Then add three of your own.

Post to your blog if you feel so inclined. But leave me a link in the comments so I can go read your list too.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - Y
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - Y
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (read one of three) - N
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - N
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - N
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - Y
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne - Y
8. 1984, George Orwell - Y (Personal Favorite)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - N
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte - N
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - N
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - Y

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - N
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - N
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - Y
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - N
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - Y
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - N
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - N
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy - Y (Uggggh)
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - N
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling - N
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling - N
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling - N
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - Y
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - Y (ugggh)
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot - N
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving - N
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck - Y
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - Y
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson - N
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - N
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett -N
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens - N
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl - Y
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - Y
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute - N
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen - N
39. Dune, Frank Herbert - n
40. Emma, Jane Austen - N
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery - N
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams - N
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Y
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas - Y (Personal Favorite)
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh - N
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell - Y (Personal Favorite)
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens - Y
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - N
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian - N
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher - N
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett - N
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - Y
53. The Stand, Stephen King - Y (So much better than the TV Series)
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - N
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth - N
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl - N
57. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome - N
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - Y
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer - N
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Y (Personal Favorite)
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman - N
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden - N
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - Y
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough - N
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett - N

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton - N
67. The Magus, John Fowles - N
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - N
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett -N
70. Lord of the Flies, William Golding - Y
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind - N
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell - N
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett -N
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl - N
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding - N
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt - N
77. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins - N
78. Ulysses, James Joyce - Y
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens - Y
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson - N
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl - N
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith - N
83. Holes, Louis Sachar - N
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - N
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy - N
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson - N
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley - Y (Personal Favorite)
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons - N
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist - N
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac - Y (Totatlly Overrated)
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo - Y
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel - N
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett - Y
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - N
95. Katherine, Anya Seton - N
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer - N
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez -N
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson - N
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot - N
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - N

So I will add my three favorite books of all time:

101 Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
102 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 
103 The Divine Comedy - Dante (Take the Personality Disorder Test )
So even though I'm a book worm, I'm a total piker compared to http://www.cadencoding.net/blogs/users/cornbread/default.aspx.  However, I'd like to posit a few others that I've read on a different subject and see what others are into.

1-  Free to Choose - Milton Freidman (and everything else by him and Rose)

2- The Road to Serfdom - Freidrich Hayek

3- The Weatlh of Nations - Adam Smith

4-A Vision of the Annointed - Thomas Sowell

5-Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell

6-(Every other book Sowell wrote being that he's the MAN)

7-Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance ,Peace Kills - P.J. O'Rourke

8-Lost Rights - The Destruction of American Liberty - James Bovard (And everything else he's written)

9-How to be Invisible - J.J. Luna
10-No Excuses - Closing the Racial Gap in Learning - Abagail & Stephan Thernstrom

11- Anti-Americanism - Jean Francois Revel

Unlike Andy - I'm pretty much focused on Tech stuff and when I'm not reading tech stuff - it's usually either Economics and Politics.  This is pretty typical of my reading choices though and should dispel any myth of my being a Right Winger considering that Freidman fell out with Reagan over the War on Drugs and has some pretty harsh words for the Republican Party, Bovard is just plain brutal to both parties, Hayek would roll over in his grave for what passes for Free Traders these days, Pariliament of Whores makes it clear that the only thing worse than Republicans in Congress is Democrats in Congress and the whole lot is ROTTEN and Luna's views on Privacy transcend political affiliation.

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Comments

# William said on October 10, 2004 7:48 PM:

On your Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy question. Yes, they are excellent books. Very funny books. If you are looking for a deep intellectual read they are definitely not that though. They are just good fun, much much lighter subject matter than say "The Lord of The Rings" type stuff. I am not a big Science fiction fan so it must be very good in order for me to read it all the way through. I read the first few when I was in high-school. A friend in one of my math classes gave them to me. She was hot so started reading them to humor her. I promptly read all of the ones that were out at the time. It takes about a weekend to read all five books. They go really fast.

On Water Ship Down

I am really not into politics at all so I rarely read political books so other than general political and social philosophy books like Rand's Atlas shrugged I really haven't read much at all in that genre.

# William said on October 10, 2004 7:53 PM:

Cr@p I accidentaly hit submit the Watership Down part should be:

On Watership Down, my Dad read it to me when I was little and I read it again a few times as I got older. It's very much about social relationships and how societies function. It an alagory about a bunch of rabbits. Books that are like it would be "Animal Farm"-Orwell, "the Cold Moons"-Aeron Clement, "The Plauge"-Camus. So if you like any of those you will probably enjoy Watership Down.

If you have a choice of reading the Hitch Hikers guide series or Watership Down, read Watership Down.

# William said on October 10, 2004 9:14 PM:

Thanks Andy, looks like I got some reading to do (Watership Down)

# William said on October 11, 2004 12:29 PM:

cool post. I command Andy to fix his RSS! Agree on if you like Animal Farm you'll probably dig Watership Down.

http://www.scottcreynolds.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f0b69074-f067-4be2-bffe-5170d86fb590

there's mine.

# William said on October 11, 2004 1:13 PM:

How about WFB Jr? I just finished God and Man at Yale, am about to read Up From Liberalism.

Even if you disagree with his politics (I do, in a few ways), WFB's writing makes the ride worthwhile.

# William said on October 11, 2004 1:22 PM:

I read NRO and have forever (well, before there was NRO I read the print version which I still have a subscription to). I got mad at them when they had their little span with http://www.anncoulter.com the diva, but I got over it. Goldberg is really funny and Lowry is always a good read. WFB is cool but a bit long winded for fun reading. I may have to take a look at the book though, the desc on Amazon looks pretty neat.

# William said on October 11, 2004 2:34 PM:

Have read:
1,2,4(pf),5,6,7,8,9,11,15,17,20,22,23,24,25,29,30,32,34,36,39(pf),43,44(ugh, sorry Bill),46,47,51,52,53,54,63,64,70,87,89,91,92.

Adding three books.
Shogun James Clavell
The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust
Jaka's Story, Dave Sim (I am cheating, this is a comic book)

# William said on October 11, 2004 2:41 PM:

Shogun was excellent! Ok, I'm starting to realize I'm the least well read of the bunch. But Angel, how could you hate the Count? I'm crushed ;-).

# William said on October 12, 2004 4:52 AM:

I love Dumas writing style and I loved the first part of the book. I was very disapointed whith the way the revenge took shape, and it had such promise . I guess I was hoping for something more than:

"I am he whom you sold and dishonored--I am he whose betrothed you prostituted--I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune--I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger--I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven--I am Edmond Dantès!"

# William said on October 12, 2004 11:41 AM:

Actually, you have a very good point there. Especially nowadays, he could have come up with some more hard core stuff than that, like in the Punisher. Did you see the Punisher by the way, for some reason I'm really digging it.

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