Book list!

Wowwweeee who knew that life could be so busy!

Anyway, one of my ideas for this year is to read 100 books and blog about each one in some form or another. I had a list of 100 books, but I had already read a few of them, so I was just going to find another list and replace the ones I had read and add them to my current list. But then I looked at my current list again and saw that there were things like "Harry Potter Series" and "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" and I took those out because an entire series does not count as 1 book. Long story short, the list I'm giving you is a combination of a couple "100 books to read before you die lists"

1. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
3. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
4. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
5. 1984- George Orwell
6. His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
7. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
8. Tess of the D'Ubervilles- Thomas Hardy
9. Catch 22- Joseph Heller
10. Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
11. Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks
12. Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
13. The Time Traveller's Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
14. Middlemarch- George Eliot
15. Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell 
16. The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald 
17. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
18. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy 
19. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
20. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
21. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
23. Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
24. The Wind in the Willows
25. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
26. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
27. Emma- Jane Austen
28. Persuasion- Jane Austen
29. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
30. Captain Corelli's Mandolin- Louis De Bernieres
31. Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
32. Winnie the Pooh- AA Milne
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. A Prayer for Owen Meaney- John Irving
35. The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
36. Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
37. Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
38. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
39. Lord of the Flies- William Golding
40. Atonement- Ian McEwan
41. Life of Pi- Yann Martel
42. Dune- Frank Herbert
43. Cold Comfort Farm- Stella Gibbons
44. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
45. A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth
46. A Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafron
47. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens 
48. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon
50. Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
51. Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
52. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
53. The Secret History- Donna Tartt
54. Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
55. On the Road- Jack Kerouac
56. Jude the Obscure- Thomas Hardy
57. Bridget Jones's Diary- Helen Fielding 
58. Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie 
59. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
60. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
61. Dracula- Bram Stoker
62. The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
63. Notes From a Small Island- Bill Bryson
64. Ulysses- James Joyce
65. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
66. Swallows and Amazons- Arthur Ransome
67. Germinal- Emile Zola
68. Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackeray
69. Possession- AS Byatt
70. A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
71. Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
72. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
73. The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro
74. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
75. A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry
76. The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Alboum
77. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
78. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
79. The Little Prince- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
80. The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks
81. Watership Down- Richard Adams
82. A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
83. A Town Like Alice- Nevil Shute
84. The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
85. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
86. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
87. For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
88. The Stand- Stephen King 
89. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
90. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawtorne
91. Something Wicked This Way Comes- Ray Badbury 
92. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
93. Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
94. Slaughterhouse- Five- Kurt Vonnegut 
95. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
96. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey 
97. IT- Stephen King
98. The Hunt for Red October- Tom Clancy
99. On the Beach- Nevil Shute
100. The Red Tent- Anita Diamant 

Let me know if there's any duplicates and I'll change them! I'll update you all on what I'm reading as I go along. 

Random funny video #2

He's not only good looking and an incredible singer, but he's also pretty darn funny! 

 

Update and Things to Come!

Hey all!

So seeing as how I haven't blogged for a while...I thought I'd give you guys a little update as to what's going on and some ideas I have for future blogs!


Here's something for your listening pleasure while you read :)



So right now it's exam time and it's hit full throttle. I have one on December 9th, 14th and 17th. So I will be a giant stress ball until December 17th at noon. 


Despite my crazy busyness, I have been pondering about the blog and the direction I want it to go in the new year.




So just in case you didn't know, I love reading. I love to read every chance I get (except for textbooks of course!)


There are many lists of "100 books to read" out there. I'm working on compiling my own, and my goal would be to complete the list in one year. During/after the process, I will blog about the particular book that I'm reading, and give you guys my opinion etc. 


Also, something I thought would be fun would be to do a "photo blog". What I thought I would do is "a day in photos". I would take pictures throughout my day, and post them to the blog. I'll go on some sort of adventure or something so the pictures will be more exciting then getting up, going to work etc. (Let me know if you have ideas!)




Also, there will be a shout out blog coming before Christmas!




So that's about all that's going on. Let me know of any ideas you have or if you like/dislike what I've come up with so far!


Much love, and happy holidays!