Booky Meme Redux

The same as the Booky Meme, but with a list from Kate (via Doyce):

Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk (*) beside the ones you loved.

1. Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman * [All his screen trade books are fun.]
2. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie [Not my favorite, but a gripping yarn.]
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
4. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery *
5. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
6. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White *
7. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
8. Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
9. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas [No, but I’ve watched a good dozen adaptations to film.]
10. Dracula, Bram Stoker
11. The Eight, Katherine Neville
12. Emma, Jane Austen
13. The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King

14. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
15. Fatherland, Robert Harris
16. The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay
17. The Forever King, Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
18. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
19. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
20. Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
21. The Good Master, Kate Seredy
22. Good Omens, Nel Gaiman & Terry Pratchett *
23. The Gypsy, Megan Lindholm & Steven Brust [Just didn’t look interesting.]
24. The Hero and The Crown, Robin McKinley
25. In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
26. Intimations of Immortality, Piers Anthony [Just never warmed to Anthony.]
27. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell * [Many years ago …]
28. James and The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

29. King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry
30. Kissing in Manhattan, David Schickler
31. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott [No, but I played Laurie in a stage adaptation of it in high school … “Is Beth … very … ill?”]
32. The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
33. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
34. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck [I barely survived Grapes of Wrath.]
35. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
36. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
37. The Princess Bride, William Goldman * [Better than the movie, which is itself faboo.]
38. The Quality of Mercy, Faye Kellerman
39. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
40. The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff

41. The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
42. Time And Again, Jack Finney
43. Tomorrow, When the War Began, James Marsden
44. Sabriel, Garth Nix

45. Sandman, Neil Gaiman *

46. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
47. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
48. Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers
49. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
50. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
51. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle * [I like nearly all of her “juveniles.”]

I suppose this means I need to find some time (some time) to come up with my “Nifty Fifty.”