Make a list of 100 books and read them

I love to read and easily read 100 books a year. The books I read I pick up in thrift stores, used book stores, Amazon.com, and the library. I casually find something that intrigues me and read it.

I’d like to make a deliberate list of books that I should read, more classics, and recommendations from friends. I’d like to find more interesting non-fiction books about why people behave the way they do – studies in social behavior. I want to find books that explore the gritty side of life with excellent writing.

I want to read 100 GOOD books.

I looked over my list, and realised that some of these books I really won’t ever read. For instance, the Da Vinci Code is only on my list because my parents said I should read it. But really, I don’t want to read it. So I will take those sort of books off my list. I have decided not to create a new list. I am Tarklandoura on shelfari and my list of books I plan to read is technically on there. Plus, I tend to have a whole lot of books I want to read but I and a lot of the time a book I’ve been wanting to read for say two years gets put on hold for a book I just bought and really, really want to read.

i love to read. im totally doing this.

Books make me think, take me to another life, another place..let me see some one else’s perspective. There are truly great, timeless classics out there that I want to read, so I want to make a list and get started through them.

1. Hot, Flat and Crowded (Thomas L. Friedman)
2. Cat’s Craddle (Kurt Vonnegut)
3. Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
4. The Alchemist (Pablo Coelho)
5. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
6. Being Dead (Jim Crace)
7. Quarentine (Jim Crace)
8. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
9. Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World (Peter Chapman)
10. Wild Swans (Jung Chang)

As much as I love to read I have read very few of the greats. I’m determined to mix my popular novels with as many of the greats that I can.

I finished The Tenth Circle today. Good book, though I liked My Sister’s Keeper better.

I finished If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon the other day. It’s a really good book. Next I think I will read The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.

90. If Tomorrow Comes – Sidney Sheldon
91. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
92. Songs of the Humpback Whale – Jodi Picoult
93. Harvesting the Heart – Jodi Picoult
94. Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
95. The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
96. Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
97. Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
98. My Stroke of Insight – Jill Bolte Taylor
99. The Last Oracle – James Rollins
100. The Pact – Jodi Picoult
101. Perfect Match – Jodi Picoult
102. Mercy – Jodi Picoult
103. Salem Falls – Jodi Picoult
104. Picture Perfect – Jodi Picoult
105. Keeping Faith – Jodi Picoult
106. Second Glance – Jodi Picoult
107. Pact: A Love Story – Jodi Picoult
108. Keeping Faith – Jodi Picoult
109. Invisible Armies – Jon Evans
110. Blood Price – Jon Evans
111. Dark Places – Jon Evans
112. Fall of a Kingdom – Hilari Bell
113. Rise of a Hero – Hilari Bell
114. Forging the Sword -Hilari Bell
115. Star Wars Darth Bane: Path of Destruction – Drew Karpyshyn
116. Star Wars Darth Bane: Rule of Two – Drew Karpyshyn
117. Mass Effect: Revelation – Drew Karpyshyn
118. Mass Effect: Ascension – Drew Karpyshyn
119. Time of the Reaper – Andrew Butcher
120. Slave Harvest – Andrew Butcher
121. Tomorrow Seed – Andrew Butcher

Runaway, Alice Munro