People don't read enough these days, and that's like...75% of our problems.

Yeah...I said it.

So anyway, Bill has this thing going on his blog (that he found on Andy's blog).

Y = you read it.
NF = started but didn't finish
N = never read it.

then add three of your own.  Like Bill, I ask that if you do this on your blog comment-link me so I can read yours.  Here go mine:

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - Y
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - NF
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (read one of three) - N
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - Y
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - Y
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - Y
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne - Y
8. 1984, George Orwell - Y (Personal Favorite) (me too Bill! I've read this so many times)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - Y
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte - NF
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - Y (Another favorite...love Heller)
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - Y
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - N
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - N
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - Y
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - Y
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - Y (I hate Dickens...
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - Y
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - N
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy - Y
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - NF
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Philosopher's (Sorcerer's if you're in the US) Stone, JK Rowling - Y (The Harry Potter books are actually quite good
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling - Y
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling - Y
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - Y
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - Y (hate Hardy...)
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot - N
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving - N
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck - Y
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - Y
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson - N
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - N
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett -N
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens - Y
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl - Y
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - Y
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute - N
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen - N
39. Dune, Frank Herbert - NF
40. Emma, Jane Austen - N
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery - N
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams - Y
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Y
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas - Y
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh - N
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell - Y (Personal Favorite) (me too - lovin' that Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens - Y
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - N
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian - N
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher - N
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett - N
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - Y
53. The Stand, Stephen King - NF
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - Y
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth - N
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl - Y
57. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome - N
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - Y
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer - N
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Y
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman - N
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden - N
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - NF
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough - N
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett - N
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton - N
67. The Magus, John Fowles - N
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - N
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett -N
70. Lord of the Flies, William Golding - Y (love this book
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind - N
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell - N
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett -N
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl - Y
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding - N
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt - N
77. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins - N
78. Ulysses, James Joyce - N
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens - NF
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson - N
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl - N
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith - N
83. Holes, Louis Sachar - N
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - N
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy - N
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson - N
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley - NF
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons - N
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist - N
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac - Y (Totatlly Overrated) (agreed)
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo - N (but I need to)
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel - N
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett - N
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - N
95. Katherine, Anya Seton - N
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer - N
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez -N (with all the John Cusack movies I've seen, I should
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson - N
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot - N (oh HELL no)
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - N

Bill's three additional:

101 Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Y)
102 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (NF)
103 The Divine Comedy - Dante (NF)

My three additional:

101 The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (personal favorite)
102 Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (so many times I've read this)
103 Microserfs - Douglas Coupland (must read  for software types)

Similar to Bill, I read a lot of non-fiction, mostly history, politics, science and economics.  But I've been getting back into fiction lately, and I have a fellow bookworm around now that I can discuss these sorts of things with.  Some non-fictions that I have read and enjoyed recently:

The Lexus and the Olive Branch - Milton Friedman
The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump (like him or hate him, this is like the book on dealmaking)
How to Build a Time Machine - Paul Davies (excellent, btw)

Bill, I'll check out Parliament of Whores on your reco.

Andy...fix your damn RSS feed already!

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