That might be enough to spur me into action and actually get the rest of my writing done.
Thanks, Alan.
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I overheard a woman in the supermarket last night talking on her mobile phone and her side of the conversation went something like this: "I'm turning over a new leaf this year and learning how to put myself first. It's always been about everyone else in the past but I'm going to turn things around and make it more me, me, me, from now on."
Since the checkout girl had already finished scanning the woman's items and was standing there waiting patiently for the conversation to end so she could get paid, (while I was also waiting for my turn) I thought that lady was off to a good start!
Since the checkout girl had already finished scanning the woman's items and was standing there waiting patiently for the conversation to end so she could get paid, (while I was also waiting for my turn) I thought that lady was off to a good start!
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Wow. Looks like I have a lot more reading to do! I downloaded quite a few of the classics recently and decided to work my way through them.
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [#]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [#]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [#]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [#]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [#]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [#]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [~]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [#]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] I'm currently reading this one.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [#]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [#]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [#]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [~]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [#]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [#]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [#]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [#]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [#]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [#]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [~]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [#]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] I'm currently reading this one.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [#]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [#]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [#]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [~]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo