oh FINE.
can't...resist....meme.
especially when
schweedie and
riverbella do it.
*stern look*
not THAT kind of 'do it', fool.
this might also be an excuse to use my new icon.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) add annoying comments like buffy did!
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -- did i love this? when i was a kid i wanted to marry aragorn. 'nuff said.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -- this is one of my fav books. boo radley, yo.
6 The Bible -- i bold some of this because i went to a churchy school and was raised lutheran and have read parts for school and stuff
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte --i've read this twice and both times i didn't like
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell --one of my favorite books of all time.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -- i'm boldling 2/3 of this because i only read the first 2 books. i know billions of people love this series, but i just...didn't. it was well done and clever, but i just didn't care about the characters. *hides*
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott --read multiple times. i also read little men because i went through a louisa may alcott phase.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -- this is daphne du maurier's most famous book, but all of her books are really good.
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -- i'll get around to this someday, but it seems overrated. is that just me?
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -- i wish i could bold this more than once. ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. READ THIS NOW.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell --first time i read this i was 12. i bawled like a baby at the end.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -- i read this ages ago and don't remember much. i want to reread. i also recomment the dirk gently books.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis --'a boy and his horse' is made of win.
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 -- i enjoyed it but man, is it overrated imo.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery --i wanted to dye my hair red for the longest time.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood -- one of my fave books. i love margaret atwood. if you like this read 'oryx and crake.'
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -- this is just brilliant.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon -- ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS EVER EVER EVER. *HEARTS*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -- again, i only read half of this. and i tried twice. but i just...couldn't. it literally made my head hurt. i don't know if it triggers me because it's about the death of a child or what. but i'm not reading this. but i might watch peter jackson's movie.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -- OMG I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! and also "the little princess.' *pets*
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath --suicidal girls who write poetry? bring it on!
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
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 --the only time i've loved a spider
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --i read the entire collection when i was 14 or so. oh how i love that detective. *moony eyes*
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
this was kinda fun. books = love.