the first entry in this blog is something i stole borrowed from frog

75 books i have (or in my case haven't) read, a couple on the original list i removed and replaced with other books i love. one by emma goldman, who was truly an individual. some of these books i wont ever read. some i have read a 100 times.

* The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson

* To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

* The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

* White Teeth, Zadie Smith

* The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

* Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

* Excellent Women, Barbara Pym

* The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

* Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

* The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

* Beloved, Toni Morrison

* Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

* Like Life, Lorrie Moore

* Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

* Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

* our bodies, ourselves, the boston women's collective

* A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

* A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'Connor

* The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx

* You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker

* Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

* To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

* Fear of Flying, Erica Jong

* Earthly Paradise, Colette

* Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

* Property, Valerie Martin

* Middlemarch, George Eliot

* Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid

* The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

* Runaway, Alice Munro

* The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

* The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

* Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

* You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates

* Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

* Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill

* The Liars' Club, Mary Karr

* I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

* A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith

* And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

* Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

* The Secret History, Donna Tartt

* The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley

* The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

* The Group, Mary McCarthy

* Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

* The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

* The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank

* Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

* Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag

* In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez

* The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

* Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

* Three Junes, Julia Glass

* A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

* Sophie's Choice, William Styron

* Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

* Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

* living my life, emma goldman

* The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

* The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

* The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

* The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn

* My Antonia, Willa Cather

* Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

* The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West

* Spending, Mary Gordon

* The Lover, Marguerite Duras

* The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

* Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen

* Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

* Three Lives, Gertrude Stein

* Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

* I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

* Possession, A.S. Byatt

for the record i do actually read a lot. just not those tomes (no, i didn't just learn that word either) i read books about psychology, anatomy, physiology, aromatherapy, herbalism, arts and crafts, and for a little fun very good mysteries. now i am re-reading the lord of the rings six pack. its going well actually. oh and occasionally i read books on the care and feeding of children, guinea pigs, family, friends and dogs.