Books <3
So, yeah. This is a list of 100 books, and you are supposed to bold the books you've read and italicise those you intend to read. Stolen from half_vulcan , so I'm not to sure about the details. But let's show people that we are book nerds! (If I don't have more than 6, I blame still being a teenagers, dangit) Also, i will add notes to a few if I feel inclined to.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I wanna read it, but I'm waiting for senior year, when I will read it in class. Or until I get desperate enough for something to read.)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (EDIT: How did I forget to bold this one? I went to the last three premiere parties, I've definitely read them all)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Class)
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 (Again, waiting for class)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I want to understand all those great quotes!)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I started but lost interest. I'll get to it eventually)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [All of them!]
34. Emma - Jane Austen (Also started and lost interest)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen (Yes, I'm going to be a nerdy Austen fan eventually, thank you very much)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Do repeats really count? Well, whatever)
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
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Oh goodness, all the people that did GGM for their English presentation....)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (And all the sequels :D)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Ah man....so disturbing *shudder*)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann MartelDune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Christmas list: Complete Works of 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
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Seriosly, at least 5 people. So I know what this book is about.)
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (So sad, and the only reason I didn't like it was that class dragged it on foreeeeever.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I don't care if it's disgusting, I want to read it.)
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (I'm not even sure why I want to read this one, but it looks interesting)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' 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
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
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
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
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
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 (If you don't love Roald Dahl then you are missing out. One of my favorites: Lamb to the Slaugher. Hehehehe, dramatic irony.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
HAHA! Eight. And there are more. A bunch of these were presented in my English class, and a few of them are options for my summer reading. Now, I think most of these are the classics, and there are a few that I kind of want to read, but won't agree to be commited to it so I left them alone. Keep in mind that I've read much more than this, such as the Twilight Saga(no comment), the Harry Potter series, and a bunch more that I'm too lazy to remember. Also, tons and tons of fanfiction. I've heard that it is recommended to read a little every day. I used to agonize over this until I realized that almost every day I'm glued to my computer reading fanfic. So, yeah. I love you guys if you read through this, this is me posting after feeling sleepy, so it's a little random. Now I really want to go and sit in a library and read. It's so comfy in there, and it smells like books, and it's quiet, and comfy, and ahhhhhh *goes back to reading Good Omens, which, sadly, is not on the list and, just as sadly, is e-text so it is harder to curl up with. I need an e-reader.*
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I wanna read it, but I'm waiting for senior year, when I will read it in class. Or until I get desperate enough for something to read.)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (EDIT: How did I forget to bold this one? I went to the last three premiere parties, I've definitely read them all)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Class)
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 (Again, waiting for class)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I want to understand all those great quotes!)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I started but lost interest. I'll get to it eventually)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [All of them!]
34. Emma - Jane Austen (Also started and lost interest)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen (Yes, I'm going to be a nerdy Austen fan eventually, thank you very much)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Do repeats really count? Well, whatever)
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
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Oh goodness, all the people that did GGM for their English presentation....)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (And all the sequels :D)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Ah man....so disturbing *shudder*)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann MartelDune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Christmas list: Complete Works of 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
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Seriosly, at least 5 people. So I know what this book is about.)
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (So sad, and the only reason I didn't like it was that class dragged it on foreeeeever.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I don't care if it's disgusting, I want to read it.)
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (I'm not even sure why I want to read this one, but it looks interesting)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' 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
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
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
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
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
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 (If you don't love Roald Dahl then you are missing out. One of my favorites: Lamb to the Slaugher. Hehehehe, dramatic irony.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
HAHA! Eight. And there are more. A bunch of these were presented in my English class, and a few of them are options for my summer reading. Now, I think most of these are the classics, and there are a few that I kind of want to read, but won't agree to be commited to it so I left them alone. Keep in mind that I've read much more than this, such as the Twilight Saga(no comment), the Harry Potter series, and a bunch more that I'm too lazy to remember. Also, tons and tons of fanfiction. I've heard that it is recommended to read a little every day. I used to agonize over this until I realized that almost every day I'm glued to my computer reading fanfic. So, yeah. I love you guys if you read through this, this is me posting after feeling sleepy, so it's a little random. Now I really want to go and sit in a library and read. It's so comfy in there, and it smells like books, and it's quiet, and comfy, and ahhhhhh *goes back to reading Good Omens, which, sadly, is not on the list and, just as sadly, is e-text so it is harder to curl up with. I need an e-reader.*