100 books

So one of my New Year’s resolutions was to read more… thus, I made a list of 100 books to read over the course of the year… yes, I know, that’s over 8 books a month, but hey, a girl’s gotta dream  :). Besides, some of them I have read before so they should go quick…

1. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
2. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
5. A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
6. A Widow for One Year by John Irving
7. A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
8. Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull
9. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
10. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Loma Lanvik    
11. Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young
12. Atonement by Ian McEwan
13. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
14. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
15. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
16. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
17. Blessings by Anna Quindlen
18. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
19. Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
20. Chocolate by JoAnn Harris
21. Freakonomics by Steven Livett
22. French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
23. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
24. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
25. Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
26. Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by Maria Amparo Escandon
27. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
28. How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
29. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
30. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
31. Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
32. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
33. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
34. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
35. Lamb by Christopher Moore
36. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
37. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marquez
38. Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin
39. Loving Frank by Nancy Hoban
40. Lucia Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
41. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
42. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
43. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
44. Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
45. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
46. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
47. On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
48. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
49. Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
50. Prague by Arthur Phillips
51. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
52. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
53. Queen Noor: American-born Queen of Jordan by Lucia Raatma
54. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
55. Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes by Cathy Holton
56. Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall
57. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
58. Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
59. Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
60. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
61. Something Blue by Emily Giffin
62. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
63. Still Life with Rice by Helie Lee
64. Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
65. The Abstinence Teacher Tom Perrotta
66. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
67. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
68. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
69. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
70. The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
71. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
72. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
73. The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
74. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
75. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
76. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
77. The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
78. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
79. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
80. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
81. The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
82. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
83. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
84. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
85. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
86. The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
87. The Shack by William Paul Young
88. The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer
89. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
90. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
91. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
92. The Will by Reed Arvin
93. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
94. Three Junes by Jilia Glass
95. True Devotion by Dee Henderson
96. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
97. Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
98. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
99. Wicked by Gregory MaGuire
100. World Without End by Ken Follett