Return to Reading

Growing up, there were very few books that I read and actually liked.  During my spring break two years ago, I read three books in one week while sitting on the beach.  That fall, I started work and took a couple trips overseas.  While there, I finished 4 books in one trip and 6 in another.  I started to really like reading.  Recently, I haven't been traveling as much and my reading has dropped.  That's got to change.  The goal for the rest of the summer is 2 books per month. I'm finishing up Allegiant by Veronica Roth now.

I found HPB - 100 Books You Can't Put Down.  The books that I have read on their list I did really enjoy.  
 
Amazon also has a 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks.  Some of the books overlap with the list above. 

Here are their top 100 books:

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

"Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
“1984″ by George Orwell
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Charlotte’s Web” by ER White

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by JRR Toiken
“Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Night by Elie Wiesel
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Stand by Stephen King
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Outlander by Gabaldon
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Odessy by Homer
Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from 5 Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I thought I'd pull from these two lists for now.  Up next, I am between:

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Eat, Pray, Love
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Bossypants

What do you think?  Do you have a favorite book on/off the above list?