create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.

oh my gosh. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is one of the best books I’ve ever read! I couldn’t put it down—all 850 pages!

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I’ve colored the ones I’m done with and put quotes from each of them.

At this point I highly reccamend most of the books I have read. The only ones that I wasn’t terribly impressed by were A Wrinkle in Time and Tom Sawyer.

Through with The Wasteland and onto Call of the Wild!

Few more changes (I’m hoping this is the final edition of this list) www.re-defined.info/booklist.html—and two books in.

First I read Tom Sawyer, which was a fabulous book that reminded me of all the crazy adventures you have as a kid. Maybe ours are a little less real than Tom’s, but so what.

Now I’m in the middle of To Kill a Mockingbird, which is also really great. I love the glimpse into childhood, and I well remember most of those sentiments. Plus the tension on the racial front is really well done so far. I am looking forward to finishing this one.

Anyone have a suggestion for the next one on the list that I should tackle?

made some changes to the list…here’s the updated version… I posted it on my website.

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Here’s the listy mclistlist!

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5. How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan
6. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
7. Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
11. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
12. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
13. If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
14. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
15. Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
16. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenini
17. Patrick: Son of Ireland by Stephen Lawhead
18. White Fang by Jack London
19. The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
20. Sloppy Firsts by Megan Mccafferty
21. House by Frank Peretti
22. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
23. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
24. Animal Farm by George Orwell
25. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
26. The Magnificent Andersons by Booth Tarkington
27. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
28. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
29. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
30. Atonement by Ian McEwan
31. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
32. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
33. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
34. The Good Girl’s Guide to Bad Girl Sex by Barbara Keesling
35. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
36. Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
37. Romantically Challenged by Beth Orsoff
38. No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
39. Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
40. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
41. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
42. Marley and Me by John Grogan
43. Labrynth by Kate Mosse
44. Prey by Michael Crichton
45. Priest by Francine Rivers
46. Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers
47. Hood by Stephen Lawhead
48. The Iron Lance by Stephen Lawhead
49. The Last Word and the Word After That by Brian McLaren
50. Message in the Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
51. El Principito (The Little Prince)
52. El Reino Del Reves by Maria Elena Walsh
53. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
54. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
55. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
56. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
57. Night by Elie Wiesel
58. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
59. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
60. To Kill a Mockingbird
61. House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn
62. The Waste Land and other poems by T.S. Eliot
63. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
64. Flashbang by Mark Steele
65. Trips by Victoria Brooks
66. Middlemarch by George Eliot
67. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
68. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
69. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginedes
70. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
71. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
72. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
73. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
74. An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
75. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
76. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
77. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
78. No Touch Monkey by Ayun Halliday
79. Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
80. Cheating at Solitaire by Ally Carter
81. Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
82. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
83. Reinventing Mona by Jennifer Coburn
84. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
85. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
86. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
87. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
88. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
89. Naked by David Sedaris
90. Yes Man by Danny Wallace
91. The Time Machine by HG Wells
92. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
93. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
94. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
95. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
96. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
97. Amanda by Kay Hooper
98. Nothing by Henry Green
99. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
100. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame