Books! (meme)
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5) My mac still doesn't like lj cuts, so your friends page may be filled with my pretentiousness. Sorry!
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien HATED it.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling Who hasn't?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Didn't like it
6. The Bible ...I've read...a lot of the Old Testament. Does that count?
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman. Since when is this a classic?
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare. No, but I've read Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and a Midsummer Night's dream, and I've acted parts of Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and others.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks. Never even heard of it. Is it really a classic?
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger. Eww. Never never never.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. Is this a classic?
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot Yes yes yes. I love Dorothea.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald I didn't like it, except for that one paragraph at the beginning where Nick describes himself as the quintessential narrator/observer. I really related to it at the time.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens. I really don't like Dickens, so I don't want to read it.
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (all seven books!!) I've read the first one. It was good, but not as good as people say. I may read the others someday.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
28. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame I think so, when I was a kid.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy I could go on for a long time about how good this book is, so I won't.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis. I read the whole thing when I was too young to get that it was a religious allegory. I loved it then. I probably wouldn't like it so much now.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis Um...you do realize this is part of 33. the chronicles of Narnia? For people concerned about literacy, the list-makers aren't so literate :P
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini That's a classic?
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres What's that?
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Is this on the list because it was turned into a movie?
40. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne I liked it when I was a kid...
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This is not a classic, wtf? Who made this list?
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving. What's that? Never heard of it.
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. I've heard of Wilkie Collins, but not The Woman in White.
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding. I didn't like this book.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. I think this is on the list because it was made into a movie.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert. The movies were great. I couldn't get into the book so much.
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. What's this? Never heard of it.
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Read it in school, hated it. Definitely the worst of times.
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon. Not a bad book, (I like the autistic kid's perspective), but it's not a classic by a long shot. My estimation of this list is going down the toilet.
60. Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. I don't want to read this.
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt. Never heard of it. What is it?
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold. Are. You. Serious?
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac I want to understand the Beats. I think I'd like them.
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding Okay, this is a funny book and probably the best chick lit out there, but seriously? Does it belong on a list of books that people must read? I don't think so.
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. Oh? Not the Satanic Verses? I suppose that'd be too controversial.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens My mom read part of it to me as a kid and I kind of want to finish it. I might actually understand it now. :P
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Read it as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it as much now.
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson. Bill Bryson is not a classic, kthxbye.
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome. Isn't this a children's book from the 1950s?
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt. I don't think I've heard of this one...
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. Haven't heard of this one.
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. Haven't heard of this one, either.
87. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White OMG, I cried for like a day when Charlotte died.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Not bad, really sweet, but definitely not a classic.
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton. Never heard of it.
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Yes--the whole thing in English and most of it in French.
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks. Never heard of it.
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams I read it when I was like 10...it was a lot of fun, but I wouldn't call it a classic.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole. Don't think I've heard of this one.
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute. Never heard of it.
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare. This goes under the Complete Works of William Shakespeare :P I liked it, but I like Macbeth better.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Road Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've read 28. Not bad, given that I'm only 18.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5) My mac still doesn't like lj cuts, so your friends page may be filled with my pretentiousness. Sorry!
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien HATED it.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling Who hasn't?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Didn't like it
6. The Bible ...I've read...a lot of the Old Testament. Does that count?
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman. Since when is this a classic?
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare. No, but I've read Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and a Midsummer Night's dream, and I've acted parts of Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and others.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks. Never even heard of it. Is it really a classic?
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger. Eww. Never never never.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. Is this a classic?
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot Yes yes yes. I love Dorothea.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald I didn't like it, except for that one paragraph at the beginning where Nick describes himself as the quintessential narrator/observer. I really related to it at the time.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens. I really don't like Dickens, so I don't want to read it.
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (all seven books!!) I've read the first one. It was good, but not as good as people say. I may read the others someday.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
28. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame I think so, when I was a kid.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy I could go on for a long time about how good this book is, so I won't.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis. I read the whole thing when I was too young to get that it was a religious allegory. I loved it then. I probably wouldn't like it so much now.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis Um...you do realize this is part of 33. the chronicles of Narnia? For people concerned about literacy, the list-makers aren't so literate :P
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini That's a classic?
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres What's that?
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Is this on the list because it was turned into a movie?
40. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne I liked it when I was a kid...
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This is not a classic, wtf? Who made this list?
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving. What's that? Never heard of it.
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. I've heard of Wilkie Collins, but not The Woman in White.
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding. I didn't like this book.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. I think this is on the list because it was made into a movie.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert. The movies were great. I couldn't get into the book so much.
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. What's this? Never heard of it.
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Read it in school, hated it. Definitely the worst of times.
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon. Not a bad book, (I like the autistic kid's perspective), but it's not a classic by a long shot. My estimation of this list is going down the toilet.
60. Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. I don't want to read this.
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt. Never heard of it. What is it?
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold. Are. You. Serious?
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac I want to understand the Beats. I think I'd like them.
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding Okay, this is a funny book and probably the best chick lit out there, but seriously? Does it belong on a list of books that people must read? I don't think so.
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. Oh? Not the Satanic Verses? I suppose that'd be too controversial.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens My mom read part of it to me as a kid and I kind of want to finish it. I might actually understand it now. :P
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Read it as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it as much now.
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson. Bill Bryson is not a classic, kthxbye.
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome. Isn't this a children's book from the 1950s?
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt. I don't think I've heard of this one...
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. Haven't heard of this one.
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. Haven't heard of this one, either.
87. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White OMG, I cried for like a day when Charlotte died.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Not bad, really sweet, but definitely not a classic.
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton. Never heard of it.
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Yes--the whole thing in English and most of it in French.
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks. Never heard of it.
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams I read it when I was like 10...it was a lot of fun, but I wouldn't call it a classic.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole. Don't think I've heard of this one.
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute. Never heard of it.
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare. This goes under the Complete Works of William Shakespeare :P I liked it, but I like Macbeth better.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Road Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've read 28. Not bad, given that I'm only 18.