This is what I've got so far!
1)The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2)Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman (not sure if this one counts...)
3)Hawkes Harbor by SE Hinton
4)Night and Day by Virgina Woolf
5)Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6)Paradise by Toni Morrison
7)The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8)The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
9)The Way Things Are by Lucretius
10)War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
11)A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
12)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
13)In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
14)Oskar Schindler by David M. Crowe
15)Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
16)Macbeth by William Shakespeare
17)The Trial by Franz Kafka
18)Clapton by Eric Clapton
19)Kent State by James A. Michener
20)Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
:)

That is a great list! Last year I read 72 books which is a record for me. I hope to do better this year.

Rebecca wrote: "That is a great list! Last year I read 72 books which is a record for me. I hope to do better this year. "

Thanks! I know how many books I've read in total but I've never kept track of how many I read in a year so this should be interesting!

Oh, I have no idea how many I have read in total. I sure wish I had kept track of that.

21) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4/5 Stars

22) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

23) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
In a word: Heartbreaking

24) The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
Wow, what I didn't know about Lindbergh and Ford...

25) Pretty Things by Sarra Manning
Wanted something lighter to read after reading so many depressing books! I liked how it started but it lost its interest around the end... maybe I should stick to depressing? XD

26)Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

27) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Short, but intense. I read it in one sitting.

half-way + 2!!!!!!!! yipee!

Thanks!

28) Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

29) The Hours by Michael Cunningham

30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Absolutely Delightful. (I know that is a ridiculously quaint way to describe a book but this book was ridiculously quaint and, therefore, could only be described thus. :D)

31) Name All The Animals by Alison Smith

Tristen wrote: "
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons..."

I totally, and quaintly, agree~!!

32) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
I love that he was a vegetarian (sorta...) XD

33) When Zachary Beaver Came To Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

34) A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones

35) The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
After his wife's fatal fall from an apple tree, Paul Iverson turns to the only witness for answers and he won't give up until he gets them. One problem: the only one who can tell him whether his wife fell or jumped is her dog, Lorelei who isn't talking. Yet.
I had read a couple of negative reviews for this book so my expectations were quite low, but despite the strange premise of the book I found it absolutely lovely. Parkhurst's gradual reveal of her characters' lives before the death makes Paul's attempts to teach his dog to talk quite believable. Anyone who has ever dealt with overwhelming grief, mental heath issues, or even just loves their dog will be able to relate to this book. 4/5 stars

36) Misery by Stephen King
This was my first Stephen King book and probably a bad choice. I had already seen the brilliantly acted movie so reading it was (I hate to say this 'cause I always like the book more than the movie)kinda redundant. That being said, it wasn't necessarily a bad book; it just wasn't the type of book I personally enjoy.

37) Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

38) The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

39) The World According to Garp by John Irving

40) The Awakening by Kate Chopin

41) Night by Elie Wiesel

42) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Tristen Kiri wrote: "
41) Night by Elie Wiesel"

That's a fantastic book

Yeah, completely agree. It only took a couple of hours to read and it was so intense. I'm Jewish, so I've been trying to pick up more books about the Holocaust but it's definitely a must-read for everyone.

43) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Admittedly, I'm not a big Hemingway fan (maybe a little too "macho" for me... But I'll keep trying! I already gave up on Austen :S ) but I did find some aspects of this one interesting. Namely, the titular character's musings on the nobility of his catch and his regret at having to kill it. I was kinda shocked by this admission by the famous big-game hunter Hemingway and I thinked it convinced me to read "The Sun Also Rises" (which is sitting in my bookshelf) sometime in the next couple of weeks.

44)Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

45) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Crazy interesting; I would love to seriously study gender identity.

count down to 50!

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Hi, Tristen! If you liked Middlesex and want to read more about gender identity, I've got a weird book recommendation for you. It's a biography about one of the first sex-reassignment patients who was an incredibly unusual and odd and mysterious person. He started life as 'Gordon Langley' and ended it as 'Dawn Langley Simmons' writing several books under both names and personas. S/he was one of the most intriguing people I've read about. A good biography about her is Peninsula of Lies A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love by Edward Ball. You might try to find a copy of it if this sounds interesting to you.

Wikipedia has an entry about Dawn here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Langle...

I can also vouch for her book She-Crab Soup which is one of my all-time humor favorites because it is SO over-the-top and weird! I've never read anything else like it.

Thanks! I'll check them out. :D

Hope you enjoy them! Let me know what you think if you do end up reading them...they are certainly odd. ;-)

46) The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

I really like your list.... You don't read a lot of fluff. This is a list I aspire to, so you have my total respect.

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that's a great idea planning and tracking what your reading!

Tristen Kiri wrote: "
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Absolutely Delightful. (I know that is a ridiculously quaint way to describe a book but this book was ridiculously quaint..."

Totally agree with you on this description! Have you ever seen the movie? The movie is very faithful to the book and retains all of its charm.

Tori wrote: "I really like your list.... You don't read a lot of fluff. This is a list I aspire to, so you have my total respect.
"

Thanks! I really appreciate the comment :D. I just noticed that you finished The Bell Jar the same day I did. What did you think?

Lisa wrote: "Tristen Kiri wrote: "
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Absolutely Delightful. (I know that is a ridiculously quaint way to describe a book but this book ..."

I haven't seen the movie yet but I'll have to check it out now. :) Thanks!

47) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

48)Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

49) Rx by Tracy Lynn

50) The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

51)Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Congrats on reaching the half-century mark! You've got a great list of books. I loved Rebecca and The Memory of Running.

Thanks! I loved Rebecca and I'm glad I found The Memory of Running ( I can't believe no one would publish it!)


52+53) The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six by AA Milne
I decided to count it as two books because that's how it was originally published. :D

sorry I'm a little late!