{"id":14255,"date":"2015-01-28T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:32:11","slug":"another-top-100-of-books-to-read-i-didnt-read-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/another-top-100-of-books-to-read-i-didnt-read-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Top 100 of Books to Read; I Didn&#8217;t Read Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, the first 40 Executioner novels do not comprise forty percent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&#038;node=8192263011\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/amazon100.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>So I didn&#8217;t do too well on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t do too well on the list primarily because the list is heavily weighted to modern and children&#8217;s books.  Neither of which I read a lot of.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list with items I&#8217;ve read in bold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>1984<\/em> by George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>A Brief History of Time<\/em> by Stephen Hawking<\/li>\n<li><em>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/em> by Dave Eggers<\/li>\n<li><em>A Long Way Gone<\/em> by Ishmael Beah<\/li>\n<li><em>A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition<\/em> by Lemony Snicket<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Alice Munro: Selected Stories<\/em> by Alice Munro<\/li>\n<li><em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> by Lewis Carroll<\/li>\n<li><em>All the President&#8217;s Men<\/em> by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein<\/li>\n<li><em>Angela&#8217;s Ashes: A Memoir<\/em> by Frank McCourt<\/li>\n<li><em>Are You There, God? It&#8217;s me, Margaret<\/em> by Judy Blume<\/li>\n<li><em>Bel Canto<\/em> by Ann Patchett<\/li>\n<li><em>Beloved<\/em> by Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li><em>Born To Run &#8211; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen<\/em> by Christopher McDougall<\/li>\n<li><em>Breath, Eyes, Memory<\/em> by Edwidge Danticat<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Catch-22<\/em> by Joseph Heller<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li><em>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/em> by E.B. White<\/li>\n<li><em>Cutting For Stone<\/em> by Abraham Verghese<\/li>\n<li><em>Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead<\/em> by Brene Brown<\/li>\n<li><em>Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1<\/em> by Jeff Kinney<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/book-report-dune-by-frank-herbert-1965-1990\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dune<\/a><\/em> by Frank Herbert<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> by Ray Bradbury<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream<\/em> by Hunter S. Thompson<\/li>\n<li><em>Gone Girl<\/em> by Gillian Flynn<\/li>\n<li><em>Goodnight Moon<\/em> by Margaret Wise Brown<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/book-report-great-expectations-by-charles-dickens-1861\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Expectations<\/a><\/em> by Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies<\/em> by Jared M. Diamond<\/li>\n<li><em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone<\/em> by J.K. Rowling<\/li>\n<li><em>In Cold Blood<\/em> by Truman Capote<\/li>\n<li><em>Interpreter of Maladies<\/em> by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/li>\n<li><em>Invisible Man<\/em> by Ralph Ellison<\/li>\n<li><em>Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth<\/em> by Chris Ware<\/li>\n<li><em>Kitchen Confidential<\/em> by Anthony Bourdain<\/li>\n<li><em>Life After Life<\/em> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n<li><em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em> by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>\n<li><em>Lolita<\/em> by Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<li><em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n<li><em>Love Medicine<\/em> by Louise Erdrich<\/li>\n<li><em>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning<\/em> by Viktor Frankl<\/li>\n<li><em>Me Talk Pretty One Day<\/em> by David Sedaris<\/li>\n<li><em>Middlesex<\/em> by Jeffrey Eugenides<\/li>\n<li><em>Midnight&#8217;s Children<\/em> by Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n<li><em>Moneyball<\/em> by Michael Lewis<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Of Human Bondage<\/em> by W. Somerset Maugham<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>On the Road<\/em> by Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n<li><em>Out of Africa<\/em> by Isak Dinesen<\/li>\n<li><em>Persepolis<\/em> by Marjane Satrapi<\/li>\n<li><em>Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint<\/em> by Philip Roth<\/li>\n<li><em>Pride &#038; Prejudice<\/em> by Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li><em>Silent Spring<\/em> by Rachel Carson<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/book-report-slaughterhouse-five-by-kurt-vonnegut-1969\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slaughterhouse-Five<\/a><\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Team of Rivals<\/em> by Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/li>\n<li><em>The Age of Innocence<\/em> by Edith Wharton<\/li>\n<li><em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/em> by Michael Chabon<\/li>\n<li><em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em> by Malcolm X and Alex Haley<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book Thief<\/em> by Markus Zusak<\/li>\n<li><em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> by Junot Diaz<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> by J.D. Salinger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Color of Water<\/em> by James McBride<\/li>\n<li><em>The Corrections<\/em> by Jonathan Franzen<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America<\/em> by Erik Larson<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em> by Anne Frank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em> by John Green<\/li>\n<li><em>The Giver<\/em> by Lois Lowry<\/li>\n<li><em>The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials<\/em> by Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> by F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li><em>The House At Pooh Corner<\/em> by A. A. Milne<\/li>\n<li><em>The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<\/li>\n<li><em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> by Rebecca Skloot<\/li>\n<li><em>The Liars&#8217; Club: A Memoir<\/em> by Mary Karr<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)<\/em> by Rick Riordan<\/li>\n<li><em>The Little Prince<\/em> by Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Long Goodbye<\/em> by Raymond Chandler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11<\/em> by Lawrence Wright<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/book-report-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-by-j-r-r-tolkien-1972-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales<\/em> by Oliver Sacks<\/li>\n<li><em>The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals<\/em> by Michael Pollan<\/li>\n<li><em>The Phantom Tollbooth<\/em> by Norton Juster<\/li>\n<li><em>The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel<\/em> by Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li><em>The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York<\/em> by Robert A. Caro<\/li>\n<li><em>The Right Stuff<\/em> by Tom Wolfe<\/li>\n<li><em>The Road<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n<li><em>The Secret History<\/em> by Donna Tartt<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Shining<\/em> by Stephen King<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Stranger<\/em> by Albert Camus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em> by Ernest Hemingway<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Things They Carried<\/em> by Tim O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> by Eric Carle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em> by Kenneth Grahame<\/li>\n<li><em>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel<\/em> by Haruki Murakami<\/li>\n<li><em>The World According to Garp<\/em> by John Irving<\/li>\n<li><em>The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em> by Joan Didion<\/li>\n<li><em>Things Fall Apart<\/em> by Chinua Achebe<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> by Harper Lee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption<\/em> by Laura Hillenbrand<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Valley of the Dolls<\/em> by Jacqueline Susann<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/em> by Shel Silverstein<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> by Maurice Sendak<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even provided links to book reports for books I&#8217;ve read in the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got 20 of 103 (The Lord of the Rings, remember, is three books).<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not broken up about it.  There aren&#8217;t many others on the list that I have on my to-read shelves, and only a few that aren&#8217;t that I care about.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, it&#8217;s got bloggers blogging and maybe buying books.  So the list schtick worked.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"treygivens.com\" target=\"_blank\">Trey&#8217;s<\/a> Facebook page.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, the first 40 Executioner novels do not comprise forty percent of the Amazon 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime. So I didn&#8217;t do too well on the list. Well, I didn&#8217;t do too well on the list primarily because the list is heavily weighted to modern and children&#8217;s books. 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