Meme - Get Bookish!
Gacked from hungrytiger11
BOLD the books you have read.ITALICIZE the ones you’ve heard of/only read part of. The BBC says if you've read more than seven, you've read more than the average person.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Ring s- JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series- J.K. Rowling
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'Ubervilles-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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I'd really love some opinions on this book - I am interested in readng it, since I've eard it's partly a war story, partly romance.)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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
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
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
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 - Mark Haddon
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 (I wonder, is the original text similar to the animated story?)
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 (I am currently trying to read another book of his: “The Ground Beneath her Feet”, but I find it’s not particularly engaging. And the deification of Vina Apsara, the main character, isn’t helping either. *sigh*)
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 Inferno - Dante
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 Madam 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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
READ: 22/100 | PARTLY READ/HEARD OF: 31/100
Anyway, this meme looked interesting so I went ahead and posted it. And the books I italicized? Well, most of them, I've only heard the names of and some of them, I've read partly and so long ago that I hardly recall anythng of the plot (if there was any, since some of them are character-driven). I suddenly have the urge to read everything on the list - it's crazy that I've heard of approximately thirty books and haven't read them yet. I specifically want opinions about the following books, if you'd be so kind:
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Gone With the Wind - Margarett Mitchell
3. 1984 - George Orwell
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
6. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (My friend is currently reading it, but I'm sure if I should take her word for it and read it already. She gravitates towards romantic tragedies, so I don't know if she's exaggerating the finer points of this supposedly heartbreaking book. *not really a romance fanatic* -.-)
7. Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
8. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
9. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
10. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moreover, I'm really curious about this book called The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar. I've never heard the author's name before, but while I was at the store the other day, I found this book stacked beside Gone With the Wind. And there's something about the title that is just very poignant, very inspiring. I couldn't stop thinking about the title even after I got home. I don't know f the title served as a source of inspiration or something, but I managed to finish three request fanfictions that have been pending for a long time now. So yes, I'm very, very curious about this book. Any opinions about this?
If you think I'm missing out on a particularly good read, then don't hesitate to tell me! I'm more than open to any recommendations you might have. (Any war stories? Please?) I suppose I'll be reading The ground beneath her feet now, if only because I hate to leave things unfinished. No offense to Rushdie fans, but TGBHF reads more like philosophical jargon than, and I quote, "a triumphant hymn to the transforming power of love". I really don't get the 'rock 'n roll' feel from that book. At all. :(
Start recc'ing, guys!
BOLD the books you have read.ITALICIZE the ones you’ve heard of/only read part of. The BBC says if you've read more than seven, you've read more than the average person.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Ring s- JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series- J.K. Rowling
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'Ubervilles-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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I'd really love some opinions on this book - I am interested in readng it, since I've eard it's partly a war story, partly romance.)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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
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
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
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 - Mark Haddon
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 (I wonder, is the original text similar to the animated story?)
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 (I am currently trying to read another book of his: “The Ground Beneath her Feet”, but I find it’s not particularly engaging. And the deification of Vina Apsara, the main character, isn’t helping either. *sigh*)
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 Inferno - Dante
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 Madam 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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
READ: 22/100 | PARTLY READ/HEARD OF: 31/100
Anyway, this meme looked interesting so I went ahead and posted it. And the books I italicized? Well, most of them, I've only heard the names of and some of them, I've read partly and so long ago that I hardly recall anythng of the plot (if there was any, since some of them are character-driven). I suddenly have the urge to read everything on the list - it's crazy that I've heard of approximately thirty books and haven't read them yet. I specifically want opinions about the following books, if you'd be so kind:
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Gone With the Wind - Margarett Mitchell
3. 1984 - George Orwell
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
6. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (My friend is currently reading it, but I'm sure if I should take her word for it and read it already. She gravitates towards romantic tragedies, so I don't know if she's exaggerating the finer points of this supposedly heartbreaking book. *not really a romance fanatic* -.-)
7. Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
8. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
9. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
10. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moreover, I'm really curious about this book called The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar. I've never heard the author's name before, but while I was at the store the other day, I found this book stacked beside Gone With the Wind. And there's something about the title that is just very poignant, very inspiring. I couldn't stop thinking about the title even after I got home. I don't know f the title served as a source of inspiration or something, but I managed to finish three request fanfictions that have been pending for a long time now. So yes, I'm very, very curious about this book. Any opinions about this?
If you think I'm missing out on a particularly good read, then don't hesitate to tell me! I'm more than open to any recommendations you might have. (Any war stories? Please?) I suppose I'll be reading The ground beneath her feet now, if only because I hate to leave things unfinished. No offense to Rushdie fans, but TGBHF reads more like philosophical jargon than, and I quote, "a triumphant hymn to the transforming power of love". I really don't get the 'rock 'n roll' feel from that book. At all. :(
Start recc'ing, guys!