Holy crap.
My coworker just loaned me three books, which I have dutifully put on the Book Project list. And then I looked at the list, and it is out of control.
This is where we are:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Undertow by Sydney Bauer
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation by Elizabeth Berg
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
March by Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes In New England by Brock Clark
I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
The Reapers by John Connolly
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (probably the one book I'm most ashamed of not having read)
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
The Abduction by Mark Giminez
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
The Beach House by Jane Green
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Appeal by John Grisham
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Ghost by Robert Harris
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Until I Find You by John Irving
Shining Through by Susan Isaacs
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Deja Demon by Julie Kenner
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (will probably wait until I see the movie)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (will probably wait until I see the movie)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Eight by Katherine Neville (my old coworker Stacy asks me every time we talk if I've read this yet)
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
1984 by George Orwell
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
7th Heaven by James Patterson
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
After by Francine Prose
A Changed Man by Francine Prose
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Housekeeping by Marilyne Robinson
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
At the City's Edge by Marcus Sakey
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Questions To Ask Before Marrying by Melissa Senate
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (recommended often and loudly by Jen)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
The Runner by Cynthia Voigt
Come a Stranger by Cynthia Voigt
Sons From Afar by Cynthia Voigt
Seventeen Against the Dealer by Cynthia Voigt
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
The Specials by Scott Westerfeld
The Extras by Scott Westerfeld
The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner
All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tom Wodicka
My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Comments
Some of these I've read, some I've tried to read, some I've read over and over and over, and some I've never even heard of.
Do you have a time frame in mind or just whenever you get around to it? If you see a book that isn't on your list and you want to read it, will you? Or will you wait to read it until after your list is done?
The goal is to read them by Dec. 31. I don't know if I'll make it, but I'll try. If there's something that I want to read that isn't on here, I will add it to the list and read it. :)
I think I've started it several times over the years but no, I never finished. I have seen several different adaptations, though.
Yeah, but Katie, you have a life. If there's anything that can be learned from this list, it's that I don't. (And also that I'm a hermit.)
:)
Who just got back from an amazing trip to LA? ;)