Book meme!
I just saw this on rosina_alcona's LJ and got inspired! I bolded the ones I've read...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - my favourite book ever!!
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 - had to read the whol thing when I was little, didnt understand much of it back then...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - I read this when we were studying WW2 in high school
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - loved it!
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - I didn't like his short stories, so I never attempted to read any of his books.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Gah, I've probably read at least half of his plays. I never got through the historical ones though...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - I read this when I was young and absolutely hated it! I should read it again.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Read it in high school and didn't like it much
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - About to start it!
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - read it twice
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 - I really really tried!
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - I saw the movie though
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 - shouldn't it be included with the Chronicles of Narnia?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - nope, but I loved the movie!
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - urgh
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - I've got it, but never read it
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - On my list to read this summer
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I read one of the prequel Dune books, they're hard to follow
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - never heard of this book
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - never heard of
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - never heard of
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - really weird but I really liked it
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - again, on my list
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
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 - hilarious!
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 - no, but I've read many more from the same author. His books are just so depressing! My real name is a character is one of his books - I think she dies as a beggar or prostitute in the streets, something really horrible!
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 - nope, but on my list
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 - I think every french person has read this... "Dessine-moi un mouton"...
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no, but who else saw the cartoon and thought it was creepy as!
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 - Hmm, this is part of the Completed works obviously... It was one of the books I had to study for english lit baccalaureat. I had to learn the whole thing pretty much by heart: "'tis an unweeded garden,/ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature"
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - I read the sequel too!
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - absolute classic
There you go! I'd be curious to know what you guys think and if you could recommend me books on the list that I haven't read. Its a bit strange there's no Paulo Coelho mentioned. Anyone who likes fantasy - I definitely recommend anything written by Neil Gaiman or Joe Armstrong. The First Law is Armstrong's first trilogy starting with The Blade Itself and its amazing, really well-written, lots of action, suspense and sarcastic humour. A must read! :)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - my favourite book ever!!
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 - had to read the whol thing when I was little, didnt understand much of it back then...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - I read this when we were studying WW2 in high school
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - loved it!
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - I didn't like his short stories, so I never attempted to read any of his books.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Gah, I've probably read at least half of his plays. I never got through the historical ones though...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - I read this when I was young and absolutely hated it! I should read it again.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Read it in high school and didn't like it much
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - About to start it!
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - read it twice
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 - I really really tried!
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - I saw the movie though
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 - shouldn't it be included with the Chronicles of Narnia?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - nope, but I loved the movie!
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - urgh
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - I've got it, but never read it
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - On my list to read this summer
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I read one of the prequel Dune books, they're hard to follow
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - never heard of this book
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - never heard of
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - never heard of
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - really weird but I really liked it
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - again, on my list
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
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 - hilarious!
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 - no, but I've read many more from the same author. His books are just so depressing! My real name is a character is one of his books - I think she dies as a beggar or prostitute in the streets, something really horrible!
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 - nope, but on my list
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 - I think every french person has read this... "Dessine-moi un mouton"...
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no, but who else saw the cartoon and thought it was creepy as!
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 - Hmm, this is part of the Completed works obviously... It was one of the books I had to study for english lit baccalaureat. I had to learn the whole thing pretty much by heart: "'tis an unweeded garden,/ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature"
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - I read the sequel too!
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - absolute classic
There you go! I'd be curious to know what you guys think and if you could recommend me books on the list that I haven't read. Its a bit strange there's no Paulo Coelho mentioned. Anyone who likes fantasy - I definitely recommend anything written by Neil Gaiman or Joe Armstrong. The First Law is Armstrong's first trilogy starting with The Blade Itself and its amazing, really well-written, lots of action, suspense and sarcastic humour. A must read! :)