My bones are cold

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Date: 13 June 2007 11:13:58

So it's really cold and there's not much to report so I have culled the big list 'o books into just the ones I've read. The most recent addition is the Poisonwood Bible, that I picked up from the Red Cross shop for $3.

What is the significance of this list anyway? Are these the 100 top selling books of all time? Or top 100 money making books? Or most popular? As voted by whom? Was I consulted? How can Ulysses be on the list when no-one seems to have ever made it to the end? And War and Peace!

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
45. The Bible
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)