Book Meme taken from firnhelendien who took it from piratelicker who took it fro- *punched*
The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE READ!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring turned me off reading for a while. And that was when I was only a quarter through the book. Never finished it. Pity though, coz I bought the whole series as a set.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Seem to remember reading this a long time ago but wasn't sure if it was the abridged version. Time to remedy that.
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman I like the progress in the first 2 books but the ending in the 3rd book was rather disappointing. Still, loved Lyra as a strong and misguided female lead.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Can't remember when I read it or what the storyline was about already. (=__=);;
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott IIRC at least the sisters in here were more tolerable than those in Pride and Prejudice.
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 Faulk
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
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Halfway through at the moment but stagnant - the book's back in Malaysia.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Now when I think of the falling whale I am reminded of my hate for Twitter's downtime. I guess that's what'll happen if the Twitter birds let the fail!whale freefall through the atmosphere.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Also halfway through.
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 Read this after A Thousand Splendid Suns but didn't like it as much.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Formulaic but nice.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Read it for English tuition. The quote has been stuck in my brain since then.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Read it before all the hoo-hah, not too bad IMHO.
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 Read it for an assignment (had to be a Man Booker Prize Nominee) and it really deserved all the awards it got. I forgot that I was reading a piece of fiction so many times throughout the story.
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 Another novel that I grew to like that caught me by surprise. The story threw me in a loop for a bit.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck GAWD DAMMIT I SHALL NEVER READ THIS MAN'S WRITING EVER AGAIN SINCE MY TRAUMA WITH THE PEARL. The damn story has been ingrained in my mind since I almost always read it twice every night before my English paper. OTL
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Got halfway through the book, the book gathered dust somewhere, now it's on my bedside table back at home. ...Wow I have 3 half-read books so far.
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
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 Thank goodness I read it before watching any cinematic interpretations of the text. Also, that story stuck with me thanks to my Form 4 school drama. Had to make a whole lot of paper chains that ended up not being used WHYYYYY.
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 For a mo' I read that as 5 People You Meet In Taiwan. I need new glasses.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thanks to heinrichfrei, halfway through. ;)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton <- only cool kids read Enid Blyton back in the day lolol
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (TT_TT)
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
I'm too lazy to count how many books from the list I've read. (=w=)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring turned me off reading for a while. And that was when I was only a quarter through the book. Never finished it. Pity though, coz I bought the whole series as a set.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Seem to remember reading this a long time ago but wasn't sure if it was the abridged version. Time to remedy that.
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman I like the progress in the first 2 books but the ending in the 3rd book was rather disappointing. Still, loved Lyra as a strong and misguided female lead.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Can't remember when I read it or what the storyline was about already. (=__=);;
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott IIRC at least the sisters in here were more tolerable than those in Pride and Prejudice.
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 Faulk
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
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Halfway through at the moment but stagnant - the book's back in Malaysia.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Now when I think of the falling whale I am reminded of my hate for Twitter's downtime. I guess that's what'll happen if the Twitter birds let the fail!whale freefall through the atmosphere.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Also halfway through.
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 Read this after A Thousand Splendid Suns but didn't like it as much.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Formulaic but nice.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Read it for English tuition. The quote has been stuck in my brain since then.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Read it before all the hoo-hah, not too bad IMHO.
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 Read it for an assignment (had to be a Man Booker Prize Nominee) and it really deserved all the awards it got. I forgot that I was reading a piece of fiction so many times throughout the story.
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 Another novel that I grew to like that caught me by surprise. The story threw me in a loop for a bit.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck GAWD DAMMIT I SHALL NEVER READ THIS MAN'S WRITING EVER AGAIN SINCE MY TRAUMA WITH THE PEARL. The damn story has been ingrained in my mind since I almost always read it twice every night before my English paper. OTL
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Got halfway through the book, the book gathered dust somewhere, now it's on my bedside table back at home. ...Wow I have 3 half-read books so far.
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
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 Thank goodness I read it before watching any cinematic interpretations of the text. Also, that story stuck with me thanks to my Form 4 school drama. Had to make a whole lot of paper chains that ended up not being used WHYYYYY.
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 For a mo' I read that as 5 People You Meet In Taiwan. I need new glasses.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thanks to heinrichfrei, halfway through. ;)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton <- only cool kids read Enid Blyton back in the day lolol
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (TT_TT)
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
I'm too lazy to count how many books from the list I've read. (=w=)