Sunday, April 11, 2010

My 100th Post!!!

So I've been planning my 100th post for a good long while. Then, after a friend did something fun, I decided to compile a list. Here are 100 pieces of literature that have inspired and enthralled me, in no particular order. I hope you enjoy :)
  1. The Bible - Papa
  2. The Curate’s Awakening and
  3. At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
  4. Northanger Abbey and
  5. Pride and Prejudice and
  6. Sense and Sensibility and
  7. Persuasion and
  8. Mansfield Park and
  9. Emma by Jane Austen
  10. Bright Star and
  11. La Belle dan sans Merci and
  12. Ode to a Nightingale and John Keats
  13. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  14. A Voice in the Wind and
  15. An Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers
  16. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  17. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  18. Les Miserables (abridged) and
  19. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  20. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  21. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  22. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  23. Merchant of Venice and
  24. Much Ado About Nothing and
  25. Hamlet and
  26. Taming of the Shrew and
  27. Macbeth and
  28. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  29. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
  30. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
  31. The Hobbit and
  32. The Fellowship of the Ring and
  33. The Two Towers and
  34. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein
  35. Blessed Child and
  36. Blessed Man and
  37. Blink and
  38. Black and
  39. Red and
  40. White by Ted Dekker
  41. Screwtape Letters and
  42. Till We Have Faces and
  43. The Magician’s Nephew and
  44. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and
  45. The Horse and the Boy and
  46. Prince Caspian and
  47. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and
  48. The Silver Chair and
  49. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
  50. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  51. Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
  52. The Shack – William Young
  53. Scottish Chiefs – Jane Porter
  54. When Character was King – Peggy Noonan
  55. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  56. A Psalm of Life – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  57. Strange Fits of Passion – William Wordsworth
  58. The Princess and the Kiss – Jennie Bishop
  59. The Iliad – Homer
  60. The Odyssey - Homer
  61. Phaedra – Seneca
  62. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
  63. Hippolytus – Euripides
  64. Prometheus Bound and
  65. Agamemnon and
  66. The Libation Bearers and
  67. The Eumenides by Aeschylus
  68. Aenied – Virgil
  69. The Histories – Livy
  70. Veritas Conflict – Shaunti Feldhahn
  71. The Door in the Dragon’s Throat and
  72. The Tombs of Anak and
  73. This Present Darkness and
  74. Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
  75. The Bridge – Jeri Massi
  76. You are Special – Max Lucado
  77. Beowulf
  78. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  79. Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
  80. The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
  81. Carry On – R. W. Service
  82. Little House in the Big Woods and
  83. These Happy Golden Years – Laura Ingles Wilder
  84. A Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
  85. Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
  86. Our Town – Oscar Wilde
  87. Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
  88. Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway
  89. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  90. Fairie Queene – Edmond Spencer
  91. The Knight’s Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer
  92. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Road Dahl
  93. The Spectre Bridegroom and
  94. Rip Van Winkle by Geoffrey Crayon
  95. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  96. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  97. Last of the Mohicans – James Fennimore Cooper
  98. Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
  99. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  100. The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Anderson

3 comments:

  1. Wow, Samara. Impressive!!
    I am happy to say I have read more than half. But I also now have a new reading list!! Yay, I LOVE classics (as most of those were).
    So fun, I love who you are!!!!
    =)
    Oh, and P.S. Congrats on your 100th post!! ;)

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  2. I was sad to see Animal Farm on that list hehe (although I was in 8th grade when I read it)... but VERY happy to see Carry On and You Are Special :)

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  3. haha Elsa! lol about Animal Farm. I def didn't agree with it--but it made me think!

    Thanks you guys for reading! =)

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