The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I totally forgot that I read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz awhile back.  I am looking for things to read for my cruise next week and realized I forgot to mark this one off.  It was a wild book.  I was expecting it to be the movie The Wizard of Oz but the book is so much more interesting and there is so much packed into a tiny little book.  They say the book is better and in this case that's totally true.  I've always loved the movie but it will be strange to watch it now that I've read the book.  There is so much imagery left out.

Katie's rating: 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 
102.  The Time Machine      H.G. Wells

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