Jessssss!!!

*shaking of fist*

One of my dear friends, Jess, has started a reading project, and while I'm still on the first book I picked up this summer (May...Grapes of Wrath), she is two books in. And she has a full time job. And a life. So, I am following in "mama"'s footsteps. I'm going to read her list too. If I already read it, I'm replacing it with something else or reading it again.

1. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
2. Watership Down – Richard Adams
3. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (reread)
4. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
6. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
7. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
8. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
9. Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
10. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
11. 2666 – Roberto Bolano
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
13. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (reread)
14. The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
15. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (reread)
16. The Stranger – Albert Camus
17. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card (reread...so good!)
18. Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll (reread)
19. Wise Children – Angela Carter
20. My Antonia – Willa Cather
21. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
22. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
23. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisernos
24. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
25. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
26. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
27. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
28. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
29. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
30. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
31. Ragtime – E.L. Docorow (reread)
32. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
34. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
35. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
36. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread)
37. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flabert
38. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
39. The Wind and the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
40. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
41. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
42. Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
43. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway
44. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
45. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
46. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
47. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
48. The Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood
49. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
50. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
51. Ulysses – James Joyce
52. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka (reread)
53. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
54. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
55. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
56. The Maltese Falcoln (previously The Call of the Wild – Jack London. I hate this book and refuse to read it again.)
57. The Giver – Lois Lowry
58. One Hundred Hears of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
59. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
60. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
61. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (previously Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell, which is my favorite book of all time. I've read it a couple times.)
62. Watchmen – Allen Moore
63. Beloved – Toni Morrison (reread)
64. The Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (reread)
65. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
66. 1984 – George Orwell (reread)
67. Animal Farm – George Orwell (reread)
68. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
69. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
70. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
71. V. – Thomas Pynchon
72. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
73. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
74. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
75. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
76. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (reread)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
78. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
79. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (CURRENTLY READING)
80. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
81. Dracula – Bram Stoker
82. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe (reread)
83. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
84. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero – William Makepeace Thackeray
85. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolken (reread)
86. Anna Karena – Leo Tolstov
87. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
88. Ordinary People - Judith Guest (previously The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain. I've read it twice in the last two years for school.)
89. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
90. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut (reread)
91. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
92. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
93. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
94. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
95. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (reread)
96. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
97. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
98. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
99. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
100. On Parole – Akira Yoshimura

The Chopping Block
(those that didn’t quite make Jess' cut; *'s denote that I have chosen it to replace another book.)

1. Emma – Jane Austen
2. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
3. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
4. Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
5. Kindred – Octavia Butler
6. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
7. O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
8. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
9. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
10. Deliverance – James Dickey
11. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
12. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
13. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett*
14. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemmingway
15. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo*
16. The World According to Garp – John Irving
17. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
18. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
19. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
20. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
21. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
22. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
23. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
25. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

First up: Grapes of Wrath, because I'm already half-way through it.