Books meme or questionnaire or something
This one I have shamelessly stolen from moonlittaint .
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) * Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - it’s classic. Every girl has to read six classic Austen’s novels. I love “Emma” more, through.
2.The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien * - I can’t even tell how boring it really was.
3.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Both original and Russian translation, several times.
4.Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - From the fourth one I was buying a new one the very first day It came out. And I’m not embarrassed to admit it.
5.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - You HAVE to read. Seriously. It redirected my mind at some moment.
6.The Bible - I’m an atheist, not an active one, just live my life without any religion. Blame my first school-gymnasia, where we were studying it strictly as a piece of literature.
7.Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I was reading it really, really long.
8.Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - One. Hell. Of a great.Book.
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 Skeller - I don’t know why I haven’t read this one before
14.Complete Works of Shakespeare. Almost every fucking thing, aside from several sonnets, maybe. “Twelfth Night” and “King Lear” are my favorites.
15.Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16.The Hobbit - J. R. Tolkien * - Okay, maybe I’m just not into Tolkien.
17.Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks.
19.Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20.The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21.Middlemarch - George Eliot
22.Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - I don’t think any explanations are needed.
23.The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24.Bleak House - Charles Dickens
25.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy. LeO? Duh.
26.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *. Don’t look at me like this, please. I have an eccentric taste.
28.Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -I just love 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 - Hello, Emma, here you are! I have already ranted about you.
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-time - 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 know that a lot of people tend to think that Dumas is all about pretty language and lame plots, but frankly I don’t give a crap. I LOVE Dumas.
66.On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67.Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68.Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - Is there any way to underline one book several times? Practically, my role model. Not that I want or try everything to be this way, but usually my relationships with alcohol, men and life in general end like this. I even have got my own Daniel Cleaver at some point.
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 - Have read both original and translation, and it never ends to amuse me.
80.Possession - AS Byatt
81.A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82.Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83.The Colour 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 - E.B.White
88.The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - yes, sure, and I don’t know why no one ever mentions “The lost world”
90.The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton. -Through don’t remember much about it.
91.Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Which was really boring.
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 - Had first read it when I was a little girl. Had re-read it ten years later and realized that it’s much more deep. I stick to the opinion that they had screwed up the movie, through.
100.Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
10 I want to read
57 I've read
18 I love
3 I'd rather shove hot pokers in my eye than read (Two Tolkien and one Dostoyevsky. funny)
And some I've never even heard of.
A pretty odd selection of books, I’d say. Where is James Fowles?! Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Umberto Eco? Françoise Sagan, anyone? Fucking Coelho, curse him, for Pete’s sake?!
I could rant for a long time about this. Whatever. The list is really weirdly collected.
And what are your favorites?