Books

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