One of my bucket list projects is to read 52 of the most loved books in a year. I am a voracious reader, always have been and am loving just the thought of this project. Honestly?
I adore even the conversations that have begun from starting it. Ask someone what their most loved book is and their eyes will light up. Love it! Wicked cool! I asked everyone.. from cashiers at the Dollar Store to Ashley Judd and everyone had something to share. Some of the books on my list are old favorites of mine. My most favorite has always been the Great Gatsby so I refrained from adding it, as I have devoured it more than 20 times since I was 14.
I began reading on Sunday, April 10th, 2011.
As I get through my list, I will highlight those I have read. I have decided to add more than 52 books, as I have realized that choosing a most loved book is like trying to pick a favorite child.
1 Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Recommended by Clinton
2 The Bullpen Gospels
Dirk Hayhurst
Recommended by Clinton
3 Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Recommended by Becca
4 Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
Recommended by Becca
5 The Innocent Man
John Grisham
Recommended by Erin
6 Death be not proud
John Gunther
Recommended by Erin
7 Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
Recommended by Clinton
8 Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Recommended by Judy
9 ALL THAT IS BITTER AND SWEET
Ashley Judd
10 The Cage
Ruth Minsky Sender
Recommended by Becca
11 Destined to Reign
Joseph Prince
Recommended by Pastor Mike
12 Grapes of Wrath.
Recommended by Ashley Judd
13 To Kill a Mockingbird
Recommended by Ashley Judd
14 Dance if the Dissident Daughter
Recommended by Ashley Judd
15 Kissing Hand
Recommended by Ashley Judd
16 They cage the animals at night
Jennings Micheal Birch
Recommended by Trish
17 The book of proverbs
God
Recommended by Dave
18 When God whispers your name"
Max Lucado
Recommended by Laurie
19 Ball Four
Jim Bouton
Recommended by Clinton
20 Whats so amazing about grace
Phillip Yancey
Recommended by Jeffrey
21 Prayer does it make any difference?
Phillip Yancy
Recommended by Jeffrey
22 Secret Life of Bees
Recommended by Larkles
23 Memoirs of a Geisha
Recommended by Larkles
24 Under The Tuscan Sun
Fances Mayes
25 4 Plays including Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams
26 A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
27 Dune
Frank Herbert
Recommended by Clinton
28 Heidi
Johanna Spyri
29 The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
30 The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
31 Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
32 A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Recommended by Cashier at Dollar General
33 Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Recommended by Chef Amy Thai
34 The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
35 The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
36 The Iliad of Homer,
Homer
Recommended by the Starbucks guy
37 Emma
Jane Austen
38 Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
39 Mountain Interval
Robert Frost
Recommended by my mailman
40 Anna Karénina Vol. III
Leo Tolstoy (graf)
41 The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (graf)
42 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
43 The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
44 The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
45 The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
46 The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
47 The Voice of the City
O. Henry
48 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
49 Les Misérables Volume 1
Victor Hugo
50 The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
