Stolen from ibid, The Book meme
The Book Meme
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you loved and cross out the ones you hated or have no interest in reading.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (read bits of it, found the Old Testament more interesting than the new)
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.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell. Hated the film and have heard the book is worse
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.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky is overrated.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck not a Steinbeck fan
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy got half way through, didn't care for it at all but I'd give Tolstoy another chance
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
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 had it read to me, apparently I didn't care for it but I don't remember .
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (the hype has put me off )
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (read half of it, will give it another go)
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
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert.
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen. Probably saw the film.
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. (Just doesn't appeal for some reason)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (I think it was this that put me off Steinbeck)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (I don't like reading about rape)
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 ( Hated the film I've heard the book is better but don't fancy it)
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. (Bill Bryson would be one of my Room 101 choices)
75. Ulysses - James Joyce (We had to translate passages of this into German at university, put me off reading any more)
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (My English teacher and my mum both said this is boring and almost unreadable)
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 (Never even heard of it)
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 (boring)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (jury's out on this one, can't make my up if I loved it or hated it)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (I've never forgiven the film for making me cry)
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
I'm not as well read as I ought to be really. Also why is there no Albert Camus on here?
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you loved and cross out the ones you hated or have no interest in reading.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (read bits of it, found the Old Testament more interesting than the new)
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.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell. Hated the film and have heard the book is worse
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.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky is overrated.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck not a Steinbeck fan
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy got half way through, didn't care for it at all but I'd give Tolstoy another chance
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
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 had it read to me, apparently I didn't care for it but I don't remember .
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (the hype has put me off )
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (read half of it, will give it another go)
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
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert.
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen. Probably saw the film.
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. (Just doesn't appeal for some reason)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (I think it was this that put me off Steinbeck)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (I don't like reading about rape)
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 ( Hated the film I've heard the book is better but don't fancy it)
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. (Bill Bryson would be one of my Room 101 choices)
75. Ulysses - James Joyce (We had to translate passages of this into German at university, put me off reading any more)
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (My English teacher and my mum both said this is boring and almost unreadable)
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 (Never even heard of it)
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 (boring)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (jury's out on this one, can't make my up if I loved it or hated it)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (I've never forgiven the film for making me cry)
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
I'm not as well read as I ought to be really. Also why is there no Albert Camus on here?