• Books I’ve Read

    Date: 2009.02.18 | Category: Books | Tags:

    Yanked from my friend Jeni.

    BBC believes most people will only have read SIX of these 100 books. I find that hard to believe, and can’t find a news article to back up the figure… so… anyway… how many have YOU read? Be honest!

    Instructions:
    1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
    2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
    3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
    4) Tally your total at the bottom.

    1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ()
    2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (x+)
    3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte ()
    4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (x – reading now)
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (x)
    6 The Bible ()
    7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte ()
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (x+)
    9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (*)
    10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens ()
    11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (x)
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy ()
    13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (x+)
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not all of the plays in their entirety…(same))
    15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier ()
    16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (x+)
    17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk ()
    18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (*)
    19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger ()
    20 Middlemarch – George Eliot ()
    21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell ()
    22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
    23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens ()
    24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ()
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (x+)
    26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh ()
    27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
    28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (x)
    29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (x)
    30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame ()
    31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy ()
    32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens ()
    33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (*)
    34 Emma – Jane Austen ()
    35 Persuasion – Jane Austen ()
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (*)
    37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini ()
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres ()
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ()
    40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne ()
    41 Animal Farm – George Orwell ()
    42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (x)
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving ()
    45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins ()
    46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery ()
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy ()
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood ()
    49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (x+)
    50 Atonement – Ian McEwan ()
    51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel ()
    52 Dune – Frank Herbert (x++ loved this series)
    53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons ()
    54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen ()
    55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ()
    56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ()
    58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (x)
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon ()
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
    61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (x)
    62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (*)
    63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt ()
    64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold ()
    65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ()
    66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac (x)
    67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy ()
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding ()
    69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ()
    70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (x)
    71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ()
    72 Dracula – Bram Stoker (x+)
    73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
    74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson ()
    75 Ulysses – James Joyce (x)
    76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath ()
    77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome ()
    78 Germinal – Emile Zola ()
    79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ()
    80 Possession – AS Byatt ()
    81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (x)
    82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell ()
    83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker ()
    84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro ()
    85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ()
    86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry ()
    87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White (x)
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom ()
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton ()
    91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (x – over analyzed in high school! (was in your class for this))
    92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
    93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks ()
    94 Watership Down – Richard Adams ()
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (*)
    96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute ()
    97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas ()
    98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (x)
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x)
    100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ()

    I believe I’ve got 26 in there.