100 Books to Read Before You Die

The ladies I work with are a hoot.  Everyday we discuss with my class what we did the night before, or anything they would like to tell us.  One of those days three of us had read a book.  We started talking about different books and all of a sudden we had a book club.  It is my very first!  I have done a Bible study group before (and I love all of you very much) and it was amazing.  But discussing a book just because is going to be fun.  The first book we decided on was #1 on the bestseller list for that week.  I think we will have our first meeting soon.  We've decided the book was too easy and that we should do something a little more challenging.  One of my friends heard about the list of 100 books to read before you die.  Perfect!  We will pick a number and read it.  When I went to find this list, it is interesting because there isn't just one.  There are quite a few of these lists floating out there.  I picked one that had a mix of everything.  So far I have read 23 of the things on it.  Kinda fun!  Here is the list:

100. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
99. Atonement by Ian McEwan
98. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
97. Animal Farm by George Orwell
96. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk
95. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
94. The Lost Valentine (The Last Valentine) by James Michael Pratt
93. The Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour
92. Angels Everywhere by Debbie Macomber
91. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
90. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
89. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
88. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
87. The Divide by Nicholas Evans
86. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokor
85. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
84. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
83. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
82. Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
81. The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
80. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
79. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
78. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson
77. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
76. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackerey
75. Paradise Lost by John Milton
74. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
73. Persuasion by Jane Austen
72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
71. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
70. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
69. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
67. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
66. Watership Down by Richard Adams
65. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
64. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
63. The Hobbitt by JRR Tolkien
62. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
61. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
60. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
59. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
58. Life of PI by Yann Martel
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
56. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
55. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
54. Pride Runs Deep by R. Cameron Cook
53. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
52. Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado
51. Dracula by Bram Stoker
50. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
49. How the West Was Won by Louis L’Amour
48. Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
47. Winds of War by Herman Wouk
46. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
44. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
43. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
42. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
41. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
39. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
38. Middlemarch by George Eliot
37. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
36. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
35. Ulysses by James Joyce
34. Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
33. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
32. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
30. Complete Works of Shakespeare
29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
27. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
26. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
25. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
24. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
23. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
22. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
21. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
19. Anna Karenia by Leo Tolstoy
18. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
17. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
16. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
15. The Fairie Queen by Edmund Spencer
14. The Odyssey by Homer
13. Aesop’s Fables
12. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. 1984 by George Orwell
9. The Shack by William Paul Young
8. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
6. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
4. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. The Bible – King James Version or NIV
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pugs are wonderful!

This is from Bah Humpug- a blog about a lady and her pugs. I absolutely love her drawings! She has a new book coming out in February. It's called A Pug's Guide to Etiquette. Check it out!




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