Just crack it open.

Remember that girl that you walked by everyday who had her entire face inside a dictionary sized book?
That's me.
Looking back, I have no problem lugging a book inside my purse (I'm way to old school to afford/get a Kindle) and pulling it out when I have a few spare seconds.

Lately, I've been realizing how hard it is for me to pull out a new book and start reading, granted I thoroughly enjoyed my last "hot topic" book I read Water for Elephants. I'm very glad I picked it up, but I also have a bad habit of reading Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, and occassionally I will get out the Twilight series. Let me make all aware that I read Twilight when there was no Team Jacob or Edward. Thank goodness.

Anyways, I want to start reading things I have never read before. I want to open my eyes to the most beloved pages that have ever been looked upon in our history. Stories that my ancestors cried and fell in love when it was new.

I want to read this list.

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
3. Ulysses James - Joyce
4. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
5. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoevsky
6. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
7. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
8. Middlemarch - George Eliot
9. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
10. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
11. Emma -  Jane Austen
12. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
13. Anna Karenina-  Leo Tolstoy
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-  Mark Twain
15. Tom Jones-  Henry Fielding
16. Great Expectations-  Charles Dickens
17. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
18. The Ambassadors - Henry James
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude-  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
22. Crime and Punishment- Feodor Dostoevsky
23. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
24. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
25. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
26. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
27. The Man Without - Qualities Robert Musil
28. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
29. The Portrait of a Lady-  Henry James
30. Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
31. The Red and the Black-  Stendhal
32. Tristram Shandy-  Laurence Sterne
33. Dead Souls-  Nikolai Gogol
34. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
35. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
36. Le Pere Goriot-  Honore de Balzac
37. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
38. Wuthering Heights-  Emily Bronte
39. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
40. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable-  Samuel Beckett
41. Pride and Prejudice-  Jane Austen
42. The Scarlet Letter-  Nathaniel Hawthorne
43. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
44. Nostromo-  Joseph Conrad
45. Beloved - Toni Morrison
46. An American Tragedy-  Theodore Dreiser
47. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
48. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
49. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
50. Dream of the Red Chamber-  Cao Xueqin
51. The Trial - Franz Kafka
52. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
53. The Red Badge of Courage-  Stephen Crane
54. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
55. Petersburg-  Andrey Bely
56. Things Fall Apart-  Chinue Achebe
57. The Princess of Cleves - Madame de Lafayette
58. The Stranger-  Albert Camus
59. My Antonio-  Willa Cather
60. The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
61. The Age of Innocence-  Edith Wharton
62. The Good Soldier Ford - Madox Ford
63. The Awakening-  Kate Chopin
64. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
65. Herzog-  Saul Bellow
66. Germinal-  Emile Zola
67. Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
68. U.S.A. Trilogy-  John Dos Passos
69. Hunger-  Knut Hamsun
70. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
71. Cities of Salt-  'Abd al-Rahman Munif
72. The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
73. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
74. Brideshead Revisited-  Evelyn Waugh
75. The Last Chronicle of Barset-  Anthony Trollope
76. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
77. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. Candide-  Voltaire
80. Native Son-  Richard Wright
81. Under the Volcano-  Malcolm Lowry
82. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God-  Zora Neale Hurston
84. Waverley-  Sir Walter Scott
85. Snow Country - Kawabata Yasunari
86. Nineteen Eighty-Four-  George Orwell
87. The Betrothed-  Alessandro Manzoni
88. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
89. Uncle Tom's Cabin-  Harriet Beecher Stowe
90. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
91. On the Road-  Jack Kerouac
92. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
93. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
94. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
95. The Woman in White-  Wilkie Collins
96. The Good Soldier - Svejk Jaroslav Hasek
97. Dracula-  Bram Stoker
98. The Three Musketeers-  Alexandre Dumas
99. The Hound of Baskervilles-  Arthur Conan Doyle
100. Gone with the Wind-  Margaret Mitchell

{Taken on my phone}

As you can see, I own quite of the few books already, but I've never picked them up and read them aside from Pride and Prejudice. How can you not love that book? How could you not love Mr.Darcy?

Anyways, I have a lot to read! I am so excited because this is just one of the three lists! More to come. I just need to accomplish this one.

I feel so busy, but I'm loving it! 

A bientot!

Kristen