We got to talking one day in our cabin on a quiet, blistering hot day and she wrote me a list - about three pages worth, which I still have somewhere amongst my USA momentos.
This year, to avoid clogging up my brain or making a mess of my friend's list by scribbling on it every time I hear of a new book to read, I've made it simple and written a list here of 100 books I want to read, hopefully in the next five years, but more realistically in the next ten.
3. Dreamboat Dad by Alan Duff (NZ)
4. Flashback Forward by John Cairney (NZ)
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
7. Emma by Jane Austen
8. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
9. Persuassian by Jane Austen
10. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
11. Blindness by Giovanni Pontiero
12. The Double by Jose Saramago
13. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
15. Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
16. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
17. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
19. Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
20. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
21. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
22. Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
23. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
24. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26. Amandine by Marlena De Blasi
27. In His Own Write by John Lennon
29. The Mystery of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf
30. The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
31. The Girl with no Shadow by Joanne Harris
33. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
34. Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris
35. Coastliners by Joanne Harris
36. Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
37. Night by Elie Wiesel
38. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
40. A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible by Christy Lefteri
41. Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer
42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
43. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
44. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
45. The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
46. The Color of Water by Andre Braugher
47. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
48. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
49. 1st to Die (Women’s Murder Club) by James Patterson
50. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
51. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
52. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
53. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
54. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
55. Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame (NZ)
56. To the Is-Land (1) by Janet Frame (NZ)
57. An Angel at my Table (2) by Janet Frame (NZ)
58. The Envoy from Mirror City (3) by Janet Frame (NZ)
59. The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame (NZ)
60. Scented Gardens for the Blind by Janet Frame (NZ)
61. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield (NZ)
62. As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong (NZ)
64. A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible by Christy Lefteri
66. Sam’s Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
67. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
68. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
69. Written in My Heart's Own Blood by Diana Gabaldon
70. Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
71. Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
72. Songs of Love and Death by Tanith Lee
73. Warriors by George R.R Martin
74. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
75. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 1)
76. The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 2)
77. The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 3)
78. The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 4)
79. The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 5)
80. The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel (Earth’s Children Series, Book 6)
81. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
82. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
83. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
84. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (NZ)
85. Landings by Jenny Patrick (NZ)
86. The Denniston Rose by Jenny Patrick (NZ)
87. Dracula by Bram Stoker
88. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
89. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
90. The Phantom of the Opera by Gasto Leroux
91. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
94. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
95. Road to Paradise by Paullina Simons
96. A Song in the Daylight by Paullina Simons
98. The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
100. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A List of Non-Ficton to Read:
1. Nancy Wake by Peter Fitzsimons
2. Fernleaf Cairo by Alex Hedley
3. Casanova by Ian Kelly
4. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey and Rob Broomby
5. Escape From Germany by Neil Hansen
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