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

finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert as well as The Time Traveler’s Wife..both very good books!

just finished Night by Elie Wiesel

10/100 completed

just finished The Thirteenth Tale.

9/100 completed.

just finished The Secret Life of Bees. I liked it. I gave it a 3/5 stars on Goodreads.

8/100 books. feels like its going to take me forever!

wow. just finished The Book Thief…amazing book. honestly.
has anyone else read this??
PLEASE do! I wish i wouldn’t have waited so long to read it!!

Just finished Love is A Mix Tape..I absolutely LOVED this book.

just finished Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood..I really liked it! Slow start for me..but I’m glad I kept at it.

just finished History of Love. really great. read 2 more in the Twilight series..now i have Breaking Dawn left before i can mark bold it. Until I get that one..which one should i read off the list next?

1. Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer
4. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
5. The History of Love: A Novel—- Nicole Krauss
6. Edie: American Girl Jean Stein
7. Searching for God Knows What Donald Miller
8. Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1) Stephenie Meyer
9. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Rob Sheffield
10. Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
11. Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke
12. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir Nick Flynn
13. Night Elie Wiesel
14. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs
16. Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss Hope Edelman
17. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical Shane Claiborne
18. Bluebeard (Delta Fiction) Kurt Vonnegut
19. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel Jonathan Safran Foer
20. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert
21. Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road Donald Miller
22. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate Gary Chapman
23. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
24. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—Mary Ann Shaffer
25. House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
26. Crank Ellen Hopkins
27. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood Koren Zailckas
29. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Azar Nafisi
30. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Mary Roach
31. Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner
32. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
33. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Deluxe Edition) Tracy Chevalier
34. The Red Tent Anita Diamant
35. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
36. The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
37. No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories Miranda July
38. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
39. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl Laurie Notaro
40. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress Susan Jane Gilman
41. The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
42. How to Be Good Nick Hornby
43. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.) Marya Hornbacher
44. Jesus Land: A Memoir Julia Scheeres
45. Blindness José Saramago
46. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
47. A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) Charles Dickens
48. Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
49. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
50. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
51. Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
53. Ulysses James Joyce
54. Sloppy Firsts: A Novel Megan McCafferty
55. Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
56. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
57. Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
58. My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
59. The Book Thief Markus Zusak60. The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
61. Shopgirl: A Novella Steve Martin
62. Cat’s Eye—Margaret Atwood
63. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
64. About A Boy Nick Hornby
65. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
66. Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
67. Wit : A Play Margaret Edson
68. Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel
69. Dracula (Norton Critical Edition) Bram Stoker
70. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Chuck Klosterman
71. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris
72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
73. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
74. Drown Junot Díaz
75. Running with Scissors: A Memoir Augusten Burroughs
76. A Million Little Pieces James Frey
77. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Chuck Klosterman
78. The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics) Ernest Hemingway
79. The Stranger Albert Camus
80. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
81. East of Eden (Centennial Edition) John Steinbeck
82. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
83. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
84. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
85. Beloved Toni Morrison
86. In Cold Blood Truman Capote
87. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
88. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics) Richard Farina
89. A World Away Stewart O’Nan
90. Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
91. Pastoralia George Saunders
92. Demian Hermann Hesse
93. The Fountainhead—Ayn Rand
94. Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)—Vladimir Nabokov
95. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
96. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
97. Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
98. Choke Chuck Palahniuk
99. Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
100. Hot Water Music Charles Bukowski
100. The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac

Just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close…amazing amazing book. everyone should read it!!

i don’t know what to move on to next..

almost done with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close..soo good!

today i just went to a huge book sale and bought a bunch of books (13 for only 8.75) that were on my list!