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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.” ~ Arthur Christopher Benson

August 1, 2012

Julia's Bucket List of Books


Julia’s Bucket List of Books
(195)
(Last Updated 04 September, 2012)
(If the book is in blue, I can cross it off my list. Woo Hoo!)

1.      Bible
2.      One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
3.      Beowulf (Unknown)
4.      Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
5.      The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
6.      The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
7.      Watership Down (Richard Adams)
8.      The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
9.      Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
10.    Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolfo Anaya)
11.    I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
12.   The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
13.   The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
14.   Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
15.   Persuasion (Jane Austen)
16.   Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
17.   Emma (Jane Austen)
18.   Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
19.  The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
20.   Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
21.  Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
22.  The Wonderful World of Oz (Frank L. Baum)
23.  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
24.  The Faraway Tree Collection (Enid Blyton)
25.  Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
26.  Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
27.  Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28.  The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
29.  Notes From a Small Island (Bill Bryson)
30.  A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
31.  Possession (A.S. Byatt)
32.  The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
33.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
34.  The Creative Brain (Shelley Carson)
35.  The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
36.  The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
37.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
38.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Peril at End House (Agatha Christie)
39.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
40.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: The ABC Murders (Agatha Christie)
41.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
42.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie)
43.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Crooked House (Agatha Christie)
44.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie)
45.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Endless Night (Agatha Christie)
46.  Hercule Poirot's Most Famous: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (Agatha Christie)
47.  Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)
48.  Ramona the Pest (Beverly Cleary)
49.  The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
50.  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
51.  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
52.  The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
53.  Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
54.  Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
55.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
56.  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis DeBerniere)
57.  The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
58.  The Little Prince (Antoine DeSaint Expery)
59.  Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
60.  Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
61.  Room (Emma Donoghue)
62.  Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyesky)
63.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
64.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
65.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
66.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
67.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
68.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
69.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
70.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
71.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
72.  Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
73.  The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
74.  Middlemarch (George Eliot)
75.  The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
76.  Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
77. The History of Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
78.  The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
79.  Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
80. The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank, B.M. Mooyaart)
81.  Alas Babylon (Pat Frank)
82.  Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
83.  Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
84.  Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
85.  Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
86.  The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
87.  The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
88.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)
89.  Same Kind of Different As Me (Ron Hall)
90.  Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
91.  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)
92.  The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
93.  Dune (Frank Herbert)
94.  Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
95.  The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
96.  The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson)
97.  The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
98.  Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
99.  Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
100.  A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving)
101.  Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
102.  The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
103.  Ulysses (James Joyce)
104.  The Great Mortality (John Kelly)
105.  On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
106.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
107.  Pet Sematary (Stephen King)
108.  Dolores Claiborne (Stephen King)
109. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
110.  Last of the Breed (Louis L’Amour)
111.  The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
112.  The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
113.  The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larsson)
114.  To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
115.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
116.  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
117.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
118.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)
119.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)
120.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
121.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)
122.  Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
123.  The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
124.  The Giver (Lois Lowry)
125.  Dragonflight (Anne McCaffrey)
126.  Atonement (Ian McEwan)
127.  One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
128.  Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
129.  Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
130.  A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
131.  Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
132.  Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
133.  Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
134.  Beloved (Tom Morrison)
135.  Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
136.  The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols)
137.  The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
138.  Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
139.  The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)
140.  The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Edgar Allan Poe)
141.  The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
142.  His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
143.  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
144.   Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
145.  Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)
146.  Where the Red Fern Grows (William Rawls)
147.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K.Rowling)
148.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K.Rowling)
149.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K.Rowling)
150.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K.Rowling)
151.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K.Rowling)
152.  Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (J.K.Rowling)
153.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K.Rowling)
154.  Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
155. Contact (Carl Sagan)
156. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
157. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
158.  A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
159.  A Shakespeare tragedy: Romeo and Juliet
160.  A Shakespeare comedy: Taming of the Shrew
161.  A Shakespeare history: Henry V
162.  A Shakespeare poetry: The Rape of Lucrece
163. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
164. A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
165. On the Beach (Nevil Shute)
166. The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
167. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
168. Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
169. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
170. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
171. A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter)
172. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
173. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
174. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
175. A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Tole)
176. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
177. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
178. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
179. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
180. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
181. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
182. Mila 18 (Leon Uris)
183. Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
184. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
185. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
186. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
187. The Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells)
188. The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
189. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
190. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
191. Winds of War (Herman Wouk)
192. The Shack (William Paul Young)
193. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
194. Germinal (Emile Zola)
195. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

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