Sunday, August 1, 2010

Books I've read to date (and their ranking order)

I am 17% done with this list (as in, I have read 17 books from the list). I feel like after finishing Gone With The Wind I am accomplished and victorious and almost done but that is far from the case. As far as Gone With The Wind is concerned, 17% is 176 pages in where Scarlett just becomes a widow and moves to Atlanta and hardly anything has happened yet! Clearly I have a LONG way to go (especially considering that some of the list items are multiple books, such as Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and His Dark Materials). Now that I think of it, I read Gone With The Wind as a break from Tolkien but it may be several books before I return to LOTR because it's so dense. Even though Gone with the Wind was long, it did not require a ton of concentration.

My next book, from the list, anyway, (I have a couple that a friend gave me to read that are not on there) will be #59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon, which I have deemed worthy of bringing on an airplane. It looks interesting, sounds interesting, reads quickly, has pictures, equations, and diagrams, and last but not least has a cutout of a dog on the front cover. If that doesn't scream fun book, nothing does! And the narrator has Autism, which will be interesting for me because I am a teacher and a nanny and that kind of thing interests me. I love that this list has some contemporary books, like that one and the Lovely Bones to break up all the Dickens and Austen and Steinbeck.

Another one(s) I may be tackling simultaneously is/are #33 and #36 Chronicles of Narnia/The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, which is a part of the Narnia series. I have those on books on tape from the library which I may be listening to on vacation or perhaps when I'm exercising. (I did that to finish the Great Gatsby and it worked out pretty well.) I'm also thinking a plane ride coast to coast is the perfect opportunity to watch Gone With The Wind as a reward for my accomplishment.

Ok! Without further ado, here is my list from favorite to least favorite. From now on when I finish a book I will be ranking it on this list as well so that when I finish this project I'll have all the books in order. Here it goes:

21 Gone With The Wind
31 Anna Karenina
4 Harry Potter Series
5 To Kill A Mockingbird
7 Wuthering Heights
40 Winnie The Pooh
42 The Da Vinci Code
46 Anne of Green Gables
29 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
16 The Hobbit
22 The Great Gatsby
94 Watership Down
98 Hamlet
6 The Bible
70 The Inferno
61 Of Mice And Men

It was actually harder than I thought trying to figure out which books I liked more than others, especially in the middle, and especially since I read some of them a long time ago. But here it is for now, and others will be added as I finish. Eventually I'll publish the revised list with the extra books my friend and I added that we thought should be included in this list but were not for some reason. I know of a few of them, but once that gets finalized, that will be up here too, and probably in the list section on the right of this entry. But I won't think about that now, I'll think of that tomorrow, when I can stand it :)

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