A List of Books I Have Read

After the comments on Mel's post about that list of 100 Books, I decided to try to come up with my own list of books I have read. This list is in no way all-inclusive, but it does cover the majority of my reading over the last 25 years or so - the major series and my favorite authors included. Of course, I can't remember that many library books that I've borrowed. I am trying to work in more of the "classics", but as my favorite books are 1000 pages, I don't go through books in a week, and definitely not when I'm really stitching.

Anyway, here are the highlights, followed by what's left in my To Be Read basket (the new library can't open soon enough!) - not in any particular order (the order I remembered them, actually :) ):

1. The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman, Bernard Cornwell
2. The 6 Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
3. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
4. The Princes of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd
5. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
6. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
7. 1776, David McCullough
8. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, Col. David Hackworth
9. Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose
10. The Winter King, Bernard Cornwell
11. The Archer’s Tale, Bernard Cornwell
12. The Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell
13. Stonehenge, 2000 B.C.: A Novel, Bernard Cornwell
14. Pompeii, Robert Harris
15. All 7 Harry Potter novels, J.K. Rowling
16. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
17. The Virgin’s Lover, Philippa Gregory
18. Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell
19. The Wild Irish: A Novel of Elizabeth I & the Pirate O’Malley, Robin Maxwell
20. The Queen’s Bastard, Robin Maxwell
21. The Tidal Poole, The Thorne Maze, The Queen’s Cure, The Twylight Tower, The Poyson Garden, Karen Harper
22. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
23. The Camulod Chronicles (7 books), Jack Whyte
24. London, Edward Rutherfurd
25. Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd
26. The 6 original books in the Dune series, Frank Herbert
27. House Atreides, Harkonnen, & Corrino, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
28. The Guenevere Cycle (3 books), Rosalind Miles
29. The 7 Books of the Dark Tower Series, Stephen King
30. Every book Stephen King wrote from Carrie and before Storm of the Century, except The Green Mile.
31. Every book by Anne Rice in the Vampire Chronicles except the last, Blood Canticle, and the Mayfair Witches; Cry to Heaven; Exit to Eden; Belinda; and one of my favorites, The Mummy: or Ramses the Damned
32. The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
33. The Outlander series (6 to date), Diana Gabaldon
34. Lord John and the Private Matter, Diana Gabaldon
35. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
36. The first 4 books of the Earth’s Children series, Jean M. Auel
37. The Ender series, Ender’s Game through Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
38. The Alvin Maker series (6 books), Orson Scott Card
39. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, Orson Scott Card
40. The Homecoming Saga (5 books), Orson Scott Card
41. A group of the Xanth books, Piers Anthony
42. The Belgariad series (I think I read 7 of 8), David (and Leigh) Eddings
43. The Malloreon series (5 books), David Eddings
44. The Elenium series (3 books), David Eddings
45. The Tamuli series (3 books), David Eddings
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell (quite possibly the book I hated the most, ever)
47. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
48. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
49. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
50. Several Patricia Corwell books – Postmortem through The Body Farm
51. Several Clive Cussler books in the Dirk Pitt group – Sahara, Shock Wave, Inca Gold
52. The Odyssey, Homer (3 times – once was enough)
53. Beowulf, unknown
54. Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
55. The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Margaret George
56. Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Margaret George
57. Night, Eli Wiesel
58. Shield of Three Lions, Pamela Kaufman
59. Maia, Richard Adams
60. Aztec & Aztec Autumn, Gary Jennings
61. The Journeyer, Gary Jennings
62. Raptor, Gary Jennings
63. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
64. Mexico and Hawaii, James Michener
65. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
66. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle – one of my all-time favorites!
67. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis. I read to the boys most of the one that precedes this one, too, though they lost interest, so I quit.
68. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
69. The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, and That Was Then, This is Now, S.E. Hinton
70. Several of those Flowers in Attic books by V.C. Andrews
71. Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, and Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
72. From Shakespeare, I have read these completely: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, and I think one other. I have also read excerpts from many others, and/or seen them performed.
73. Birds of Prey, River God, and Blue Horizon, Wilbur Smith
74. Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (I hate Dickens)
75. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
76. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCort (this was a HUGE piece of self-indulgent crap)
77. I, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Jenkins
78. A Love Never Forgotten, Samir Garib (the kid from Bosnia that works with my DH)
79. The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir
80. A LOT of the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys mysteries, when they were re-released in the late 70’s, early 80’s in the hardback w/yellow spines – my sister bought the complete sets of both, and lost them when her ex caught the garage on fire, where they were stored.
81. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
82. The entire Necroscope series (13 books), Brain Lumley

In The To Be Read Basket:

1. The Queen’s Fool, Philippa Gregory
2. The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
3. The Rebels of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd
4. The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd
5. Persuasion, Jane Austen
6. I, Elizabeth, Rosalind Miles
7. The Children of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
8. Innocent Traitor, Alison Weir
9. Codex, Lev Grossman
10. Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell