Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Amazon's 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime Tag


This tag was started by https://perfectlytolerable.com/ but I saw it at this blog and decided to join in  https://darquedreamerreads.wordpress.com/

You can find the Amazon list here: 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?ref%5F=pe%5F2416840%5F266754070%5Fpe%5Fbutton&redirect=true&node=8192263011&pldnSite=1

RULES:
1-Include the link to Amazon's List
2-Tag the creator of the meme
3-Tag and thank the person that tagged you
4-Copy the list below and indicate which ones you have read
5-Tally up your total
6-Comment on the post you were tagged in and let them know how many you read
7-Tag 5 new people

The 100 books:

Title Author Read?
1984 George Orwell
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Yes
The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket Yes
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 Alice Munro
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll DNF
All the President’s Men Bob Woodward
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Judy Blume Yes
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Beloved Toni Morrison
Born to Run Christopher McDougall
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Catch-22 Joseph Heller DNF
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Yes
Charlotte’s Web E. B White Yes
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
Daring Greatly Brené Brown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney
Dune Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brow
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Ph.D.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling Yes
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder Yes
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Yes
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road Jack Kerouac DNF
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yes
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X
The Book Thief Markus Zusak Yes
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Yes
The Color of Water James McBride
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Yes
The Fault in Our Stars John Green Yes
The Giver Lois Lowry Yes
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman Yes
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood DNF
The House at Pooh Corner A. Milne
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Yes
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Liars’ Club Mary Karr
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan Yes
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Yes
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Oliver Sacks
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver DNF
The Power Broker Robert A. Caro
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
The Road Cormac McCarthy DNF
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Shining Stephen King Yes
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Yes
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Yes
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami DNF
The World According to Garp John Irving
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe DNF
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Yes
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak


Looked at-30
Read-22
DNF-8

Some of these I read during my phase of trying different genres or I would never have picked them up. Most I simply have no interest in reading.

Want to play? Consider yourself tagged!

14 comments:

  1. Awesome list! Precisely yesterday I was making a list of 20 classics I want to read and I went as far as 10 and ran out of ideas. I've read a few like The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the Little Prince. Just finishing the Golden Compass now and I have a few from your list like The Road, The Handmaid Tale, and The book thief I'll add Unbroken and To kill a Mockingbird from your list.

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    1. My list of 100 books to read would be somewhat different from this one! I'm surprised I picked up as many as I did!

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  2. Interesting! I’ve read 43 and DNFed 1 (Lord of the Rings).

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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  3. Well, I've read 17 of these - much better than I thought I would. Very interesting.

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    1. It's funny, I look at them and think how my tastes have changed!

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  4. I might have to steal this from you and force myself to read some more fiction!

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    1. That 1001 books to read before you die...I think I got about 20 on it! This list was better but only because I used to read more varied genres! The ones I haven't read don't interest me much!

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  5. Oh my gosh so many to read here (and realistically how many will I really get to lol)?? But I'd really like to get to some of these. I am happy to have finally!! read the hunger Games series recently. and I love the Pooh books, kids books or not!

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    1. I found it interesting to see what I've read but I don't plan to read anything else from it! I just did this as a quick book tag for fun!

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  6. You read more of these than I did. I'm surprised at some that I hadn't read!

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    1. I read a lot of asian and african fiction back around 2010 but don't read the genres now. I tried a lot of them through Bookcrossing but found quite a few not to my taste!

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  7. There are a bunch I would pass on. No interest in reading, so this would not be a good 'challenge' for me to do. :-)
    sherry @ fundinmental

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    1. Same here! What I haven't looked at doesn't interest me. In fact, if I was starting the list from scratch, I'd hardly look at any of them!

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