I decided that I love to read but sometimes it's hard for me to decide what to read unless I have a purpose for reading it. The last time I really read was the Twilight Series and that was also motivated by all the other friends I had reading and tlakin about the books etc.. and before that I dont even remember. But I never know what to read either..I feel like there are all these books we are "suposed" to read or should read and I want to read them! So I starting looking up lists of books to read before you die..top books..etc. I found A LOT of books. But I settled on one list.
Newsweek posted the top 100 books: The Meta List. It is a list made from all the other lists. I liked it cuz it was recent(the article was from June 29,2009). It has a good variety too...theres fiction and non fiction..theres stories I have heard of and some I havent. It seemed like a good fit. My plan was to start at the bottom and work my way to the top. Number 100 happens to be The Second World War by Winston Churchill a 6 book series! EW! is this a test? Ugh well I decided that there are a few series' on the list so I could at least read the first book to start and then go from there. I searched for the first book and the Phx library only has it online and that is no fun. Peoria and Glendale have it but I will have to pay for it and that is also no fun! So my good friend Sarah Raber is going to get it for me from her library...so I will wait.
Today however I was substituting an amazing 6th grade class and they were too good so I had to busy myself with the teachers books..where I saw The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I knew this was on my list.. I also know that I read this book in grade school but need a refresher. So during class I read the first 7 chapters and then continued when I got home with my personal copy and now have 20 pages to go. So I guess i am on my way. Note-Number 41 is ya know The Holy Bible. That may take some time... Anyways this is my new adventure. I am going to do it. I dont know how long it will take..but I will do it. Then I am going to post after each read. Wish me luck :) Here is the list of just the book names and the link to the article if you are interested.
P.S. Shelly Rowlan I would love to know how many books on this list you have read???
Newsweek’s top 100 books Jun 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
1. War and Peace
2. 1984
3. Ulysses
4. Lolita
5. The sound and the fury
6. Invisible Man
7. To the lighthouse
8. The Iliad and The Odyssey
9. Pride and Prejudice
10. Divine Comedy
11. Canterbury Tales
12. Gulliver’s Travels
13. Middle march
14. Things Fall Apart
15. Cather in the rye
16. Gone with the wind
17. One hundred years of solitude
18. The Great Gatsby
19. Catch-22
20. Beloved
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. Midnights Children
23. Brave New World
24. Mrs. Dalloway
25. Native Son
26. Democracy in America
27. On the Origin of Species
28. The Histories
29. The Social Contract
30. Das Kapital
31. The Prince
32. Confessions
33. Leviathan
34. The History of the Peloponnesian War
35. The Lord of the Rings
36. Winnie the Pooh
37. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
38. A Passage to India
39. On the Road
40. To Kill a mockingbird
41. The Holy Bible
42. A Clockwork Orange
43. Light In August
44. The Souls of Black Folk
45. Wide Sargasso Sea
46. Madame Bovary
47. Paradise Lost
48. Anna Karenia
49. Hamlet
50. King Lear
51. Othello
52. Sonnets
53. Leaves of Grass
54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
55. Kim
56. Frankenstein
57. Song of Solomon
58. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
59. For Whom the Bell Tolls
60. Slaughterhouse-five
61. Animal Farm
62. Lord of the Flies
63. In Cold Blood
64. The Golden Notebook
65. Remembrance of Things Past
66. The Big Sleep
67. As I Lay Dying
68. The Sun Also Rises
69. I, Claudius
70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
71. Sons and Lovers
72. All The Kings Men
73. Go Tell It On the Mountain
74. Charlotte’s Web
75. Heart of Darkness
76. Night
77. Rabbit Run
78. The Age of Innocence
79. Portnoy’s Complaint
80. An American Tragedy
81. The Day of the Locust
82. Tropic of Cancer
83. The Maltese Falcon
84. His Dark materials
85. Death Comes for the Archbishop
86. The Interpretation of Dreams
87. The Education of Henry Adams
88. Quotations From Chairmen Mao
89. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature
90. Brideshead Revisited
91. Silent Spring
92. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
93. Lord Jim
94. Goodbye to all that
95. The Affluent Society
96. The Wind in the Willows
97. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
98. Eminent Victorians
99. The Color Purple
100. The Second World War
Oh and another list I found that I want to read also is the top 25 banned books... here is that list too!
#1 A Day No Pigs Would Die
#2 American Psycho
#3 And Tango Makes Three
#4 Annie on My Mind
#5 Bridge to Terabithia
#6 Candide
#7 Fallen Angels
#8 Fanny Hill
#9 Forever
#10 Frankenstein
#11 Harry Potter (The Entire Series)
#12 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
#13 Lady Chatterley's Lover
#14 Lord of the Flies
#15 Of Mice and Men
#16 Silas Marner
#17 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#18 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
#19 The Arabian Nights
#20 The Catcher in the Rye
#21 The Chocolate War
#22 The Color Purple
#23 The Giver
#24 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
#25 Ulysses
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