Earlier this week Dymocks put out The 2010 Booklovers’ Best Top 101 List. Looking through the list I recognise most of the titles. I love lists! I am a sucker for book lists! It is always fun to read through these lists and see how I compare. I have read 22 of the listed books and have on my shelf to read another 29 of the listed books. Check out the list yourself and see how many you have read, have yet to read or want to purchase.
First up I have to say a book I have been wanting to read for AGES but haven’t even gotten around to purchasing yet (shame, shame!) is Life of Pi. I have heard so many great things about this book and one day I promise I will get to it.
Now, my top 5 of this list would be, in no particular order, My Sister’s Keeper, The Kite Runner, Shantaram, Marley and Me and The Road. Loved all of these books and they will all keep the little spot in my heart they took whilst I was reading them. Other’s that get a mention on my near-to-the-top-5 list would be The Da Vinci Code, Eat Pray Love, Anne of Green Gables and The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
I am looking forward to reading People of the Book as I read Geraldine Brooks’s Year of Wonders and it is one of my favourites. Also looking forward to reading The Hunger Games, Cross Stitch and The Poisonwood Bible.
Two of the BIG books I will read eventually when time permits are War and Peace and Anna Karenina. These two are on mine, and no doubt lots of other people’s, must read one day list.
Have to say I thought For One More Day by Mitch Albom deserved a mention as I think it has been his best book, although I haven’t read his latest.
One book I didn’t think lived up to my expectations was The Lovely Bones and I think that was because of all the hype that was around when I first read it, which was a few years back now.
And now here’s the list:
2010 Booklovers’ Best Top 101 List
1.The Twilight Saga – Stephenie Meyer
2.Harry Potter Books 1-7 – J.K. Rowling
3.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
4.The Time Traveler ‘s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
5.The Lord of the Rings Books 1-3 – J.R.R. Tolkien
6.The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
7.To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
8.The Millennium Trilogy – Stieg Larsson
9.My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
10.The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
11.The Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simons
12.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
13.Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
14.The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
15.Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead
16.Magician – Raymond E. Feist
17.Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
18.The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
19.Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
20.The Host – Stephenie Meyer
21.Mao’s Last Dancer Film Tie In – Li Cunxin
22.Atonement – Ian McEwan
23.The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
24.Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
25.A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
26.Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
27.Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
28.The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
29.Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
30.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
31.The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
32.Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
33.Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
34.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
35.The Inheritance Sequence – Christopher Paolini
36.The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
37.Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
38.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
39.The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
40.Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
41.Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
42.The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
43.Persuasion – Jane Austen
44.Tully – Paullina Simons
45.Seven Ancient Wonders – Matthew Reilly
46.Breath – Tim Winton
47.The Mortal Instruments Series – Cassandra Clare
48.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
49.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50.The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
51.Emma – Jane Austen
52.The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
53.The Bible
54.Six Sacred Stones – Matthew Reilly
55.A Fortunate Life – A.B. Facey
56.We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
57.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
58.Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
59.The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
60.The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
61.People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
62.The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
63.The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
64.Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
65.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
66.The Sookie Stackhouse Series – Charlaine Harris
67.Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
68.Five Greatest Warriors – Matthew Reilly
69.On the Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
70.The Princess Bride – William Goldman
71.The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
72.Wicked – Gregory Maguire
73.Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
74.Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
75.Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
76.Dewey – Vicki Myron
77.Dirt Music – Tim Winton
78.Marley and Me – John Grogan
79.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
80.Dune – Frank Herbert
81.The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
82.The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
83.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
84.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
85.The Road – Cormac McCarthy
86.Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
87.The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
88.The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
89.Possession – A.S. Byatt
90.Finnikin of The Rock – Melina Marchetta
91.No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
92.Graceling – Kristin Cashore
93.The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
94.The Secret History – Donna Tartt
95.Silent Country – Di Morrissey
96.Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
97.Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
98.The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
99.Still Alice Lisa Genova
100.The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
101.Gallipoli – Les Carlyon
