Whereas, Ovine, I Follow

Today's meme, which I do because I do, is about books read. Done by Looney, then Paula, now me, and so on. Idea: Append READ if you've read it, WANT TO if you want to, AGAIN & AGAIN if you keep going back, TRIED if you tried but couldn't get into it, and leave it blank if you don't care.

I'm not adding little editorials. It's enough to put TRIED on the first Hairy Potty book so you know I couldn't slog through that bilge if you paid me. Same for that Hitchhiker's Guide thing. Hey, I got my own weird standards, sue me. But I loved Gatsby and want to read other American classics, just haven't got round to it. Some of these I've never heard of, but since some of the others are popular rather than good (hello Dan Brown) I don't feel bad about that. (There're also one or two I probably read in high school, or pretended to, but I can't be certain.)

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - READ
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) – WANT TO
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) – AGAIN & AGAIN
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) - AGAIN & AGAIN
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) - AGAIN & AGAIN
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) – WANT TO
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling) - TRIED
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) - READ
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) - AGAIN & AGAIN
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) - READ
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - TRIED
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) - TRIED
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) - WANT TO
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) - TRIED
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) – WANT TO
34. 1984 (Orwell) - READ
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) - READ
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible - TRIED
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) – WANT TO
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) – WANT TO
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) - READ
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) - READ
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) – WANT TO
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) - READ
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) – WANT TO
69. Les Miserables (Hugo) - READ
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) – WANT TO
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving) - READ
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) - READ
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) – WANT TO
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) – WANT TO
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) – WANT TO
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) - READ
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) - READ
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) - TRIED