4 Down, 98 to go.

Flying right through the list.  Seriously, here are my reactions to my first 4 books.  I've also added the ones that were on the original list that I've already read.

72. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  I really enjoyed this book, despite it's length.  I've never read the book or seen any of the P&P movies but I had an idea of what it was about.  The vocabulary took a little while to get used to but it's a beautifully written book.  Elizabeth is quite unlike any character I would expect from that time period.  She's a very honest and outspoken young lady, I rather liked it.  I think it's shocking to the reader to have her behave this way but I really liked Elizabeth & her outspoken behavior.  A friend of mine commented on how long the book was.  I was a bit daunted by it's length and it took me awhile to really get sucked in but once I reached the halfway point, I could not put it down.  I was reading constantly until it was done.  I love getting to that point in a book!  Katie's Rating: 5 stars

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  What a weird book.  It took me about an hour to read it, mostly because of interruptions.  It feels like some sort of weird psychedelic trip without the drugs.  I mentioned to my 12 year old about it and said "well the movie is really weird, DUH Mom".  Gee thanks kid.  My friend Natalie adores Alice and I feel like I should have liked it more than I did but it just didn't do it for me.  It's a very well written book, it's just such an odd storyline.  Katie's rating: 3.5 stars

97. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne.  It was hard to believe I've never read this book because I knew all of the stories within it.  We've watched multiple versions of Winnie the Pooh movies in my house over the years.  All of my girls had Winnie the Pooh bears as babies, as I love the silly old bear.  The main difference I noticed between the book and the movies is Eeyore.  Eeyore is rather snarky in the book whereas he just seems depressed in the movies.  I was a bit shocked by his snarkiness as I wasn't expecting it.  But it's a lovely book, I rather enjoyed reading the original book.  Many happy returns of the day!  Katie's rating: 4.5 stars.

38. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Meh.  That's about all I can say.  It wasn't horrible but I really had to stick to it to finish it.  Not something I would read again.  Katie's rating: 2.5 stars.

1.      The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes           Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2.      The Alchemist     Paulo Coelho     

3.      Alice in Wonderland         Lewis Carroll      

4.      All the King's Men             Robert Penn Warren       

5.      All the Pretty Horses        Cormac McCarthy           

6.      The Ambassadors             Henry James      

7.      And Then There Were None          Agatha Christie

8.      Around the World in 80 Days        Jules Verne

9.      Atlas Shrugged   Ayn Rand

10.   Beloved               Toni Morrison   

11.   Brideshead Revisited       Evelyn Waugh   

12.   The Bridge of San Luis Rey            Thornton Wilder

13.   Bridget Jones’s Diary       Helen Fielding    

14.   The Call of the Wild         Jack London

15.   Cannery Row      John Steinbeck  

16.   Catch-22              Joseph Heller     

17.   A Clockwork Orange        Anthony Burgess

18.   Cloud Atlas          David Mitchel    

19.  A Confederacy of Dunces              John Kennedy Toole        

20.   Count of Monte Cristo    Alexandre Dumas            

21.   Crime and Punishment    Fyodor Dostoyevsky       

22.   Darkness at Noon             Arthur Koestler
23.  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde         Robert Louis Stevenson

24.   Dracula                Bram Stoker       

25.   Dune      Frank Herbert    

26.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test     Tom Wolfe

27.   Emma    Jane Austen       

28.   A Fine Balance    Rohinton Mistry               

29.   Frankenstein       Mary Shelley

30.   Go Tell It on the Mountain            James Baldwin  

31.   The Golden Notebook     Doris Lessing     

32.   The Good Soldier              Ford Madox Ford             

33.   The Grapes of Wrath       John Steinbeck  

34.   Gravity's Rainbow            Thomas Pynchon             

35.   Gulliver's Travels               Jonathan Swift  

36.   The Handmaid’s Tale       Margaret Atwood           

37.   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter        Carson McCullers            

38.   Heart of Darkness            Joseph Conrad  

39.   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy         Douglas Adams

40.   Howard's End     E.M. Forster       

41.   The Hunt for Red October             Tom Clancy

42.    Invisible Man      Ralph Ellison 

43.  Jane Eyre             Charlotte Brontë   

44.    King Leopold's Ghost       

45.   The Kite Runner                Khaled Hosseini

46.   Les Miserables   Victor Hugo       

47.   Life of Pi              Yann Martel       

48.   The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe     C.S. Lewis           

49.   The Little Prince                Antoine De Saint-Exupery             

50.   Little Women     Louisa M Alcott

51.   Lolita     Vladimir Nabokov            

52.   War of the Worlds      H.G. Wells               

53.   The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring                J.R.R. Tolkien     

54.   Madame Bovary               Gustave Flaubert             

55.   Main Street         Sinclair Lewis     

56.   The Maltese Falcon          Dashiell Hammett            

57.   Memoirs of a Geisha       Arthur Golden    

58.   Middlemarch      George Eliot      

59.   Midnight’s Children          Salman Rushdie

60.   Moby Dick           Herman Melville              

61.   Naked Lunch       William S. Burroughs      

62.   Native Son          Richard Wright  

63.   Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)     Philip Pullman    

64.   The Old Man and the Sea               Ernest Hemingway          

65.   On The Road       Jack Kerouac     

66.   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest              Ken Kesey

67.   One Hundred Years of Solitude    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

68.   A Passage to India            E.M. Forster       

69.   The Phantom Tollbooth  Norton Juster

70.   Pippi Longstocking           Astrid Lindgren

71.   A Prayer for Owen Meaney           John Irving         

72.   Pride and Prejudice          Jane Austen

73.   The Prince           Niccolò Machiavelli        

74.   The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro  

75.   The Scarlet Letter             Nathaniel Hawthorne     

76.   The Secret Garden            Frances Hodgson Burnett             

77.   The Secret History            Donna Tartt       

78.   The Shadow of the Wind               Carlos Ruiz Zafon             

79.   Sister Carrie        Theodore Dreiser            

80.   Slaughterhouse-Five        Kurt Vonnegut   

81.   Sons and Lovers                D.H. Lawrence  

82.   The Sound and the Fury   William Faulkner              

83.   Stranger in a Strange Land            Robert Heinlein

84.   Swallows and Amazons   Arthur Ransom  

85.   Swiss Family Robinson     Johann David Wyss

86.   A Tale of Two Cities         Charles Dickens

87.   Their Eyes Were Watching God    Zora Neale Hurston

88.   Things Fall Apart               Chinua Achebe

89.   To the Lighthouse            Virginia Woolf   

90.   A Town Like Alice             Nevil Shute         

91.   Tropic of Cancer               Henry Miller       

92.   Under the Volcano           Malcolm Lowry               

93.   Watership Down               Richard Adams  

94.   The Way of All Flesh        Samuel Butler    

95.   The Wind in the Willows                Kenneth Grahame           

96.   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel        Haruki Murakami

97.   Winnie the Pooh               A.A. Milne

98.   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz        L. Frank Baum   

99.   The World According to Garp       John Irving

100.                    Wuthering Heights           Emily Bronte
101. Of Mice and Men

Things I read before this list that were on the original list plus 4 that I know I can't tackle:

1.      1984              George Orwell   

2.      Adventures of Huckleberry Finn           Mark Twain        

3.      Anne of Green Gables             L.M. Montgomery           

4.      Brave New World     Aldous Huxley    

5.      The Canterbury Tales              Geoffrey Chaucer            

6.      The Catcher in the Rye            J.D. Salinger       

7.      Charlie and the Chocolate Factory      Roald Dahl         

8.      Charlotte’s Web        E.B. White          

9.      The Color Purple       Alice Walker      

10.   Don Quixote                              Miguel De Cervantes

11.   Fahrenheit 451          Ray Bradbury     

12.   Gone With The Wind               Margaret Mitchell           

13.   Great Expectations   Charles Dickens

14.   The Great Gatsby      F. Scott Fitzgerald            

15.   Hamlet         William Shakespeare      

16.   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone               J.K. Rowling  
17. Lord of the Flies       William Golding

18.   A Separate Peace      John Knowles    

19.   The Time Traveler’s Wife       Audrey Niffenegger        

20.   To Kill a Mockingbird               Harper Lee         

21.   War and Peace          Leo Tolstoy
22. In Search of Lost Time