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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) Reprint this list in your own LJ
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I read the firs few to my little sister and was thoroughly filled in on the plots of the rest... But I don't particularly feel the need to finish the series myself because the ones I did read frankly annoyed me.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (This goes on my mental list of book you really shouldn't read in elementary school if you're a really fucked up kid. For yeats I thought "If you fall in love, rats will eat your face" was axiomatic. Also, that love is a superficial vanity. Maybe I still kind of beleive that on bad days? I'm not so scared of rats anymore though.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I don't know if I really loved this book, but it was the first book that I had the oppurtunity to really discuss passionatly and at length with someone knowledgeable about literature, and that experience was itself so amazing that I still have affection for the book.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Still looking for the porn she wrote. Why don't libraries carry that?)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Actually, this is one of the books I never finished because my dad took it away part-way through and I moved on to something else.)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (There was a period as a kid when I hauled around my copy of the Complete Works like a security blanket. Then I grew up and became slightly annoyed with the over-awe people exhibit towards his work. Eh.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 (Another on the list of "I love it because I so loved discussing it." Not sure how I would feel about it otherwise.")
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I kind of hate Tolstoy, this book more than others. He's like *little bit of novel* *little bit of pro-positivist ranting* *little bit of novel* *little bit of posisitvism*. Freaking positivists. I DO have (conditioned) free will, dammit!)
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I went through a period in which I read a lot of russian novels for some reason--I think the dark helplessness of them appealed to me while simultaneously enraging me. As with many of my contemporaneous relationships, it probably wasn't very healthy.)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Again with the discussion and the loving.)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I have undying affection for this book because it's what I used to teach myself to read, and was therefore the first book I ever read.)
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 (Sort of... I think that at somepoint someone read the first one to me--along with other chidrens--perhaps at one of my foster homes? But although I remember sections, I had already read some of his theology and therefore was thoroughly disgusted with him and kind of tuned out.)
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 (I hate this book. I've actually read what remains of the gospel of Maddaleine, and it's a damn gnostic text, and she as the character we know now is a lat largely a-biblical invention anyway and shut up! I wouldn't mind so much if not for the fact that Brown regularly claims that the historical sections of the novel are true. Yes, I'm a spaz. Sigh...)
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 (This is one of my 8 or 9 favorite books IN THE UNIVERSE.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (I didn't like it as much the first time I read it, but then when I got to read it and discuss it I came to love it. Maybe I just like talking too much.)
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 (I oscilate re: how I feel about this book. On the one hand, I find the dystopian world to be the most telling and therefore most compelling of those of the well-known dystopian novels. On the other hand, the almost aggressive masculunity of the story bothers me a great deal.)
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 (There are a number of things I admire and like about this book, but I threw it into the wall about 40 times while reading it. Then I got in trouble for getting a mark on the wall. Then I got better at dealing with my anger. Then I found twenty bucks.)
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 (I feel like I'm the kind of person who would have read this book, but I haven't. *shrug*)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I don't know why. It's like mountain climbing.)
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 (I've been very aware for much of my life that my mother's schizophrenia is a disease with "genetic characteristics." I used to read this over and then check myself for Plath's signs, like checking for ticks)
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 (This book seriously affected my view of god, mental health after child abuse, love, and sex. I'm kind of afraid to re-read it in case it isn't as awesome in one's facetious 20s as it was in one's chaotic pre-teens.)
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 (I think this was actually read to me.)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I glanced through this to see if it really would be as annoying as I thought. And it was. That whole school of intellectually floppy spirituality irritates me unfairly.)
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 (There was a time when I tried to make my neighbor-children act out the final scene, and got quite irritated when they kept trying to kill each other out of order.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I feel kind of poorly read now. Why did I waste all those years on non-fictions and the passing fancies of newspapers and magazines?!
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I read the firs few to my little sister and was thoroughly filled in on the plots of the rest... But I don't particularly feel the need to finish the series myself because the ones I did read frankly annoyed me.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (This goes on my mental list of book you really shouldn't read in elementary school if you're a really fucked up kid. For yeats I thought "If you fall in love, rats will eat your face" was axiomatic. Also, that love is a superficial vanity. Maybe I still kind of beleive that on bad days? I'm not so scared of rats anymore though.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I don't know if I really loved this book, but it was the first book that I had the oppurtunity to really discuss passionatly and at length with someone knowledgeable about literature, and that experience was itself so amazing that I still have affection for the book.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Still looking for the porn she wrote. Why don't libraries carry that?)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Actually, this is one of the books I never finished because my dad took it away part-way through and I moved on to something else.)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (There was a period as a kid when I hauled around my copy of the Complete Works like a security blanket. Then I grew up and became slightly annoyed with the over-awe people exhibit towards his work. Eh.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 (Another on the list of "I love it because I so loved discussing it." Not sure how I would feel about it otherwise.")
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I kind of hate Tolstoy, this book more than others. He's like *little bit of novel* *little bit of pro-positivist ranting* *little bit of novel* *little bit of posisitvism*. Freaking positivists. I DO have (conditioned) free will, dammit!)
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I went through a period in which I read a lot of russian novels for some reason--I think the dark helplessness of them appealed to me while simultaneously enraging me. As with many of my contemporaneous relationships, it probably wasn't very healthy.)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Again with the discussion and the loving.)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I have undying affection for this book because it's what I used to teach myself to read, and was therefore the first book I ever read.)
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 (Sort of... I think that at somepoint someone read the first one to me--along with other chidrens--perhaps at one of my foster homes? But although I remember sections, I had already read some of his theology and therefore was thoroughly disgusted with him and kind of tuned out.)
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 (I hate this book. I've actually read what remains of the gospel of Maddaleine, and it's a damn gnostic text, and she as the character we know now is a lat largely a-biblical invention anyway and shut up! I wouldn't mind so much if not for the fact that Brown regularly claims that the historical sections of the novel are true. Yes, I'm a spaz. Sigh...)
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 (This is one of my 8 or 9 favorite books IN THE UNIVERSE.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (I didn't like it as much the first time I read it, but then when I got to read it and discuss it I came to love it. Maybe I just like talking too much.)
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 (I oscilate re: how I feel about this book. On the one hand, I find the dystopian world to be the most telling and therefore most compelling of those of the well-known dystopian novels. On the other hand, the almost aggressive masculunity of the story bothers me a great deal.)
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 (There are a number of things I admire and like about this book, but I threw it into the wall about 40 times while reading it. Then I got in trouble for getting a mark on the wall. Then I got better at dealing with my anger. Then I found twenty bucks.)
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 (I feel like I'm the kind of person who would have read this book, but I haven't. *shrug*)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I don't know why. It's like mountain climbing.)
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 (I've been very aware for much of my life that my mother's schizophrenia is a disease with "genetic characteristics." I used to read this over and then check myself for Plath's signs, like checking for ticks)
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 (This book seriously affected my view of god, mental health after child abuse, love, and sex. I'm kind of afraid to re-read it in case it isn't as awesome in one's facetious 20s as it was in one's chaotic pre-teens.)
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 (I think this was actually read to me.)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I glanced through this to see if it really would be as annoying as I thought. And it was. That whole school of intellectually floppy spirituality irritates me unfairly.)
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 (There was a time when I tried to make my neighbor-children act out the final scene, and got quite irritated when they kept trying to kill each other out of order.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I feel kind of poorly read now. Why did I waste all those years on non-fictions and the passing fancies of newspapers and magazines?!