March 9, 2012
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Calling all bookworms
I promise, this is my last post today. It’s cleaning day, so I keep procratinating on the dumb site. I started using GoodReads last summer, but didn’t complete my list and kind of forgot about it. My goal for the weekend is to finish my list. If anyone is a member, add me. My name is Christina8774.
Anyway, I found a way to export what I have done so far, and everyone has been so helpful with book suggestions I thought I would show my list. It compares what I scored the book and what the average score is, which I thought was pretty cool.
Here you go:
Title Author My Rating Average Rating The Plague Albert Camus 0 3.89 The Stranger Albert Camus 0 3.86 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 5 3.86 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 5 4.02 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2 3.66 The Color Purple Alice Walker 5 4.06 The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan 4 3.84 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 4 3.77 The Red Tent Anita Diamant 4 4.09 State of Wonder Ann Patchett 3 3.87 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 5 4.02 The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) Anne Rice 5 3.98 Interview With the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, #1) Anne Rice 5 3.84 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 4 3.91 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 0 4.19 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 3 3.95 The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 5 3.91 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 2 3.81 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 3 3.75 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1 3.88 Go Ask Alice Beatrice Sparks 4 3.65 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 3 3.59 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 0 4.2 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson 5 4.01 Dracula Bram Stoker 5 3.87 Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis 4 4.23 The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1) Carrie Ryan 2 3.62 The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2) Carrie Ryan 3 3.96 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 0 3.65 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall 4 4.32 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal Christopher Moore 4 4.27 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 5 3.91 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 4 4.2 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 5 3.87 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 5 4 The Road Cormac McCarthy 3 3.93 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 0 4.41 Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Dan Brown 1 3.71 The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Dan Brown 2 3.6 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 4 3.86 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 0 4.12 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 4 3.61 The Childrens Blizzard David Laskin 4 3.81 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 5 3.85 Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) Dean Koontz 4 3.61 The Devil All the Time Donald Ray Pollock 0 4.03 Night Elie Wiesel 4 4.22 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 4 3.38 Room Emma Donoghue 3 3.96 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 0 3.74 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 0 3.49 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 0 3.79 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 4 3.66 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 4 3.85 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 0 3.71 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 0 4.08 Under the Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes 3 3.51 Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) Frank Herbert 0 3.97 Angelas Ashes Frank McCourt 4 3.96 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 0 3.68 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 5 3.78 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 5 3.88 The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein 4 4.08 1984 George Orwell 5 4.01 Animal Farm George Orwell 5 3.69 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 4 4.2 The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin 4 3.54 The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 5 3.66 The Time Machine H.G. Wells 4 3.7 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 5 4.19 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 5 3.68 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 3 3.31 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 0 3.99 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 0 3.86 The Iliad Homer 3 3.72 The Odyssey Homer 4 3.6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson 0 4.07 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 5 4.09 Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger 0 3.97 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 0 3.74 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) J.R.R. Tolkien 4 4.32 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) J.R.R. Tolkien 4 4.42 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) J.R.R. Tolkien 5 4.2 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 4 4.11 On the Road Jack Kerouac 0 3.63 The Call of the Wild Jack London 5 3.64 Ulysses James Joyce 0 3.74 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 0 3.53 Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2) James Patterson 4 3.66 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 5 4.02 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 5 4.22 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond 4 3.95 The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth’s Children, #1) Jean M. Auel 5 3.88 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 4 4.15 Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals Jeffrey D. Sachs 4 3.6 Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet Jeffrey D. Sachs 5 3.56 The End of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs 5 3.64 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 4 3.84 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 0 4.08 The Pact Jodi Picoult 3 3.87 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 4 3.99 A Time to Kill John Grisham 0 3.77 The World According to Garp John Irving 4 4 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 0 4.17 A Confederacy Of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 2 3.84 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 4 3.81 East of Eden John Steinbeck 4 4.29 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 5 3.72 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 4 3.79 Blindness José Saramago 0 3.96 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 0 3.33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 0 3.94 The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) Ken Follett 0 4.18 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey 5 4.12 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 4 3.88 Plainsong Kent Haruf 3 3.84 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 4 4.15 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards 4 3.49 Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) L.M. Montgomery 3 4.21 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 5 4.4 Lucifer’s Hammer Larry Niven 4 3.89 Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption Laura Hillenbrand 4 4.47 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 4 4.03 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 5 4.03 The Giver (The Giver, #1) Lois Lowry 0 4.11 Little Women (Little Women, #1) Louisa May Alcott 4 3.93 A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle 5 4.04 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood 0 3.95 The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers Margaret George 5 4.21 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 5 4.17 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 3 4.24 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 5 3.74 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 5 3.61 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 4 4.27 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks 4 4.14 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 4 3.68 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 0 4.28 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 0 3.98 DEAD[ish] Naomi Kramer 0 2.79 Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt 4 3.78 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 4 4.09 American Gods Neil Gaiman 4 4.07 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks 4 3.85 Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card 4 4.2 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 0 3.62 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 0 3.87 Ghost Story Peter Straub 5 3.84 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 4 4.36 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) Philip Pullman 3 3.83 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 0 3.8 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 5 3.88 Watership Down Richard Adams 4 4 I am Legend Richard Matheson 4 3.86 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 4 3.92 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 4 4.02 The Outsiders S.E. Hinton 4 3.95 A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power 4 4.33 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 0 3.76 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen 3 4.06 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 5 4.36 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 5 4.16 The Shawshank Redemption Stephen King 5 4.14 Under the Dome Stephen King 3 3.84 The Shining Stephen King 4 3.89 Silver Bullet Stephen King 5 3.67 Riding the Bullet Stephen King 5 3.41 Cycle of the Werewolf Stephen King 5 3.44 Lisey’s Story Stephen King 2 3.5 The Long Walk Stephen King 4 4.03 Nightmares And Dreamscapes Stephen King 3 3.72 Gerald’s Game Stephen King 3 3.22 Night Shift Stephen King 5 3.79 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King 2 3.39 Dreamcatcher Stephen King 3 3.35 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King 3 3.58 The Tommyknockers Stephen King 3 3.25 Insomnia Stephen King 4 3.62 Different Seasons Stephen King 4 4.14 Thinner Stephen King 4 3.39 Christine Stephen King 5 3.48 Firestarter Stephen King 5 3.63 The Dead Zone Stephen King 4 3.74 Cujo Stephen King 5 3.41 Needful Things Stephen King 3 3.65 On Writing Stephen King 3 4.18 The Green Mile Stephen King 5 4.29 The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) Stephen King 4 4.13 ‘Salem’s Lot Stephen King 5 3.82 Carrie Stephen King 5 3.69 Pet Sematary Stephen King 5 3.65 The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) Stephen King 5 3.94 Misery Stephen King 4 3.89 It Stephen King 5 3.94 The Stand Stephen King 5 4.27 SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance Steven D. Levitt 5 3.77 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt 5 3.75 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium, #1) Stieg Larsson 4 3.99 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2 3.87 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke 2 3.74 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Suzanne Collins 2 4.38 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Suzanne Collins 2 4.09 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins 3 4.54 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 0 3.88 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 5 3.89 The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien 0 4.09 Beloved Toni Morrison 0 3.67 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 4 3.93 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 0 4.01 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 4 3.64 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 5 3.93 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 0 3.72 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 5 3.78 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 5 4.01 She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb 0 3.7 I Know This Much is True Wally Lamb 4 4.08 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 4 3.7 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 0 3.82 Lord of the Flies William Golding 5 3.56 The Princess Bride William Goldman 5 4.19 Sophie’s Choice William Styron 0 4.07 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 5 3.98 Life of Pi Yann Martel 4 3.79 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 0 3.8 These are almost all fiction, I will add to my list with what I have entered (I keep a record so I can remember). Anyway, if you are looking for a book to read, this is my list. I am now inspired to update my GoodReads!
Comments (31)
So are these ones you want to read or have already read? I see several overlaps we have in reading. I love the older Stephen King stuff, firestarter, the stand, etc. I’ve read all of the James Patterson Alex Cross books that are out. And several others in the list.
I’m on goodreads somewhere but I havent updated it nor do i remember my username . . . LOL
@bethro78 - These are have read, I love those guys too. I was going to quit reading SK, but it’s one of the only things I share with my mom, so I keep at it. I loved his older stuff, though.
If you figure your username out, let me know! I can read your list, too.
I started an account last week, and it’s hard rating everything I’ve read…because I don’t remember everything. My goal was to try and get a count of all the books I’ve read in my life. I’ve only rated 378 books….but that’s only a fraction of the books I’ve read, lol.
@crazy2love - I know! It’s easier when you see a book and remember “I read that”!
I should make a GoodReads account… I’m glad to see we have some overlap in taste; I’ve read 53 of these (yes, I counted, no, I don’t have a life) and plenty of others are on my mental list of To Read
@BoulderChristina - I need to figure it out and update it, which will take awhile to do . . . In 2009 I kept a list of all the books I read that year, and it was 262 books. I quit counting after that. ha. I don’t even know if I would remember all of them at this point. I guess I’ll have to browse books and just add them as i see it and remember, oh yeah, I read that one.
One of my hands down all time faves is by Elizabeth Moon, it’s called The Deed of Paksenarrion. If you can get it all in one book it’s easier to read. I guess marketing thought it was too big so the more recent publications of it are divided into smaller books to sell. (eye rolling over here). It’s sort of in the style of Tolkien only without the weirdo language. lol
Oh and how could I forget that we have Jurassic Park in common? It’s the only book that has ever given me nightmares. Yes, i have dinosaur nightmares. (eye rolling again)
@Doitean - Open one! It will help me to add to my list. And 53? Since I have only listed about 150, that is more than a third!
@bethro78 - Thank you! I am all over that. The biggest turn off for me was the tough language, but I loved the story. I will keep you posted!
@BoulderChristina - I will
hmm I’ve read most of existentialism worth to read…hate hemmingway with passion…aside of Tolkien I hate every writer born after 1900. kafka and camus are awesome, also saramago is but not the blidness but All the names… tolstoy, joyce, carroll, dahl… the most comercial guys I usually avoid but rice is so so at least she entertaining…I haven’t read anything more unbearable than milan kundera or coelho same ew for king…i just don’t tend to like what people like LOL twilight i like and everyone hates it hahaha I just don’t like what people do
@xXxlovelylollipop - Hahaha! I think it’s awesome you don’t like my list! I’m just glad you read some of them!
@BoulderChristina - I have read most of them…I read around 2 books a day but I mostly don’t like what I read : I’m just a pretty weird reader
I usually don’t like people’s lists cuz I’m a nut case so no harm hahaha I love sartre’s nausea and I’ve met people who has burned that book to the ashes…I don’t know why i’m so freaking odd about books.
@xXxlovelylollipop - PSST – I rated the King books high because my mom is on there, too. I could never tell her that I don’t like most of them, because King is all we share sometimes. Don’t tell.
@xXxlovelylollipop - 2 books a day? Wow. I am also considered a book snob, but you take the cake! Not all of the books listed there did I enjoy, I rated them but some aren’t coming through.
@BoulderChristina - LOL I’m not a book snob I think you have to like El Quixote to be there hahaha I read some stuff I hate for my kids and my mom, wow she likes stuff like dan brown O.o I think I was implanted in her no way I’m her daughter hahaha
I bet as a punishment for being such a prick my kids are going to like w/e it is on the airport bookstores
@xXxlovelylollipop - Dan Brown – I’d rather stab my eyes out with a fork! As far as the kids, yeah, you will pay. I sometimes stare at their shelves in disbelief, but I guess I am just lucky they are readers! My oldest is coming around though. Must have happened around 20.
Nothing from Scott Turow? Must remedy.
we have a bit of overlap.
@blonde_apocalypse -Looking at Amazon now…
@promisesunshine - Nice!
I am on goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6856572-kris
@Kristenmomof3 - I added you!
Now that is a lot of reading.
Well, well… Yet another reason why we seemed to connect so well. Anne Rice, Stephen King, Patterson, Steinbeck and more… I think I’ve read more Rice and King books than anybody else, but this list is IMPRESSIVE! Yes indeed, the more I get to know you, the more I like you. I’m going to have to have you round up a cowboy for me when I come visit. Save a horse, ride a cowboy… Yee Haw!!
This is an awesome list! I’m always looking for something to read!
i think this is the longest post ive ever seen.
@Grannys_Place - I have been reading a long time!
@MzSilver - I will corral a herd of them, and let you choose your favorite! We do have a lot in common
@xOne_twentyX - Thanks! You should sign up for that site, because when you are looking for a book you will forget where you saw the list. I do that all the time~
@heckels - I’m flattered!