Since I am an avid reader, I figured I'd put this list up that I had clipped from The Gazette at the end of 2005. Here are the 100 books Canadians favored (blue for those I haven't read and purple for those that I have):
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1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (my favorite book)
4. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J.R.R Tolkien
8. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
9. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
10. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
12. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
15. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
17. Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
18. The Stand - Stephen King
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
20. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
22. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
23. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
24. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
25. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
26. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
29. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
30. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
31. Dune - Frank Herbert
32. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
33. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
34. 1984 - George Orwell
35. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
36. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
37. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
38. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
38. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
39. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
40. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
41. The Clan of the Bear - Jean M. Auel
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
44. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
47. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
48. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
49. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
50. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
51. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
52. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
53. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
54. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
55. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
58. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
59. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
60. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
61. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
62. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
63. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
64. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
65. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares68. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
69. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
70. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
71. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
72. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
73. Shogun - James Clavell
74. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
75. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76. Summer Tree - Guy Gavriel Kay
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
78. The World According to Garp - John Irving
79. The Diviners - Margarent Laurence
80. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
81. Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley
82. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
83. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
84. Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
85. Emma - Jane Austen
86. Watership Down - Richard Adams
87. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
88. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
89. Blindness - Jose Saramago
90. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
91. In the Skin of the Lion - Michael Ondaatje
92. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
93. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
94. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
95. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
96. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
97. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
98. A Woman of Substance - Barbara Taylor Bradford
99. The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
100. Ulysses - James Joyce
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I would like to attempt to read most of what is on this list. I even have some of these books waiting on my shelves to be read. Hopefully I will continue to chip away at the list...If anyone has any suggestions for good books to read, please feel free to let me know of them :)
2 comments:
I have read a total of 7 books on that list. Even my hubby has read more books on this list than me! I guess my taste in subject matter consists of more romance and girly stuff these days, the kind of stuff that doesn't really turn up on Top 100 lists (like my Gossip Girl series).
Well I went through the list and I must say that I'm pretty impressed with myself. The first time i saw your list i figured that i'd read maybe 5 of them....nope.....15!!
....although 5 of those are Harry Potter books....and there are another few that i have, but still never read, like "gone with the wind" & "wuthering heights". I bought them many years ago because no library bookshelf is complete without the classics....I think I've got to make them the summer reads for this year.
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