Book Survey

I’m procrastinating….

Bold the ones you’ve read
Italicize the ones you want to read
Cross out the ones you won’t
Underline the ones on your book shelf
Asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of

Add five books at the end (books you have read, books you own, books you want to read, don’t want to read, or books you have just heard mention of — it doesn’t matter).

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring – Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers – Tolkien
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
Outlander – Diana Gabaldon

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry*
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J. K. Rowling

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving*
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald*
The Stand – Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Hobbit – Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Life of Pi – Yann Martel*
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis

East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand*
1984 – George Orwell
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett*
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay*
I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb*
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho*
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel*
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Bible – Various versions
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb*
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver*
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card*
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Stone Angel – Margaret Laurence*
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough*
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrew Niffenegger*
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand*
War and Peace – Tolstoy
Interview With The Vampire – Anne Rice
Fifth Business – Robertson Davis*
One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez*
Shogun – James Clavell*
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Summer Tree – Guy Gavriel Kay*
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
The World According To Garp – John Irving*
The Diviners – Margaret Laurence*
Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
Not Wanted On The Voyage – Timothy Findley*
Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier*
Wizard’s First Rule – Terry Goodkind*
Emma – Jane Austen
Watership Down – Richard Adams*
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields*
Blindness – Jose Saramago*
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer*
In The Skin Of A Lion – Micahel Ondaatje*
Lord of the Flies – Golding
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton

White Oleander – Janet Fitch
A Woman of Substance – Barbara Taylor Bradford*
The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield*
Ulysses – James Joyce*
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time – Mark Haddon*
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story – George Orwell
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold*
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut*
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer – William Gibson*
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson*
The Secret History – Donna Tartt*
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides*
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell*
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman*
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafan*
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The History of Love – Nicole Krauss*
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert*
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
One Few Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born – Tina Cassidy*

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders ~ John Mortimer
Snow White and Rose-Red ~ Brothers Grimm
Doctor Zhivago ~ Boris Paternak

Parasites Like Us ~ Adam Johnson
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs ~ Chuck Klosterman

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June 11, 2008

I love this survey! I’m going to have to do it and put it in the Twelve in 12 diary. RYN: If at all possible, I suggest the walking a bit over at a time method. It saves on gas and more importantly, you won’t hurt muscles you didn’t know you had. Hugs, John

June 12, 2008

I love this survey. I <3 books! ^_^