I Have a Confession to Make...

I'm a mom and educator with an intense passion for reading....and *hanging head in shame* I do not own a library card.. It started when my son was a toddler. We spent a quiet afternoon in the library and picked some books to take home. DS excitedly "read" the same picture book aloud to no one in particular over and over. When it came time to return the book, he was all tears. "Mommy, we have to give it back?" he wailed. I know I should have let him learn that sometimes you can't have what you want but I'm certainly guilty of loving a book so much that I read it repeatedly. I'm so glad that at almost 16, my DS is still a very  enthusiastic reader. Anyway, I let my library card expire at some point and it's been book trading with friends and discount memberships since then.
A few weeks ago, I bought this bookmark at Barnes and Noble. Out of the 50 books to read before you die, I have only read 30 of them. I'm going to try my best to finish the other 20 during the next year although I have no intention of dying. Guess I'll be renewing my library card... :-)
Here are the 50:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman-didn't care for the series
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde