Book Meme!
Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones read solely as a curriculum requirement, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.
Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place. Reading comic books and seeing the movie doesn't count. Sorry!
I'm gong to add a symbol here (^) which means I really want to read the selection but haven't yet :)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen^
The Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien *
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte^
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte^
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell^
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman^
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott^
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare *
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier^
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger^
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (I had to read this like 4x in school. Loved it the 1st 2. Then it got old)
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll*
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame^
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
Emma - Jane Austen^
Persuasion - Jane Austen^
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden^
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne^
Animal Farm - George Orwell^
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery^
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert^
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen * (currently reading)
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov^
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker * (really need to finish)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce^
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath^
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker *
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White *
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle^
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare *** (My fav of his...plus I think this doesn't count- it was already on the list above)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory *
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Silmarillion*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad
The Blind Assassin^
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlesex
Quicksilver^
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales^
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man^
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Frankenstein^
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Angels & Demons *
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park^
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Gulliver’s Travels
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved (Is there a symbol for "HATED it"?)
Slaughterhouse-five^
The Scarlet Letter *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey^
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences^
White Teeth
Treasure Island
I need to read more....
Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place. Reading comic books and seeing the movie doesn't count. Sorry!
I'm gong to add a symbol here (^) which means I really want to read the selection but haven't yet :)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen^
The Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien *
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte^
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte^
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell^
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman^
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott^
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare *
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier^
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger^
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (I had to read this like 4x in school. Loved it the 1st 2. Then it got old)
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll*
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame^
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
Emma - Jane Austen^
Persuasion - Jane Austen^
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden^
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne^
Animal Farm - George Orwell^
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery^
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert^
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen * (currently reading)
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov^
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker * (really need to finish)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce^
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath^
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker *
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White *
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle^
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare *** (My fav of his...plus I think this doesn't count- it was already on the list above)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory *
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Silmarillion*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
The Iliad
The Blind Assassin^
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Middlesex
Quicksilver^
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales^
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man^
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Frankenstein^
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Angels & Demons *
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park^
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Gulliver’s Travels
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved (Is there a symbol for "HATED it"?)
Slaughterhouse-five^
The Scarlet Letter *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Northanger Abbey^
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences^
White Teeth
Treasure Island
I need to read more....