Okay, here's something where I don't totally look like someone who never does anything!

The RULES

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put an asterisk next to those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Italicize or underline (I am too lazy to un-underline the books already underlined here, and I can't figure out how to underline on my blog) the books you LOVE.

There are 98 books on the list.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkein
   
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter Series--J.K. Rowling
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
   
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four--George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials--Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -Not every play, but many if not most of them
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    
22. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh-A.A. Milne
    
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal--Emile Zola
    
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers--Dumas
    
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    
98. Les Miserables--Victor Hugo

It's probably pretty obvious that I like 18th and 19th century novels, that I don't particularly care for science fiction, am stronger on "classics" than on popular novels of the past 30 years, and I love a lot of things that I read. I'm not sure who came up with this list--some interesting choices there, and some even more interesting omissions. It's rather unfortunate that at this point in my life, I can't read nearly as much as I used to. Most of what I'm reading now is, obviously, aimed at children, and that's just fine with me. Or it's non-fiction of a more utilitarian nature.

I also was on a funny little website that tells how many people in the U.S. share your name: www.howmanyofme.com. There are 3 Nancy Clendenons (I'm not sure if they have the other Nancy Clendenon that I know still listed, but she is now deceased) and 10 Nancy Renwicks (I knew one of them).